Category: Book Bites
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The Winner of The One-Chapter Challenge
Once upon a time, I started reviewing books on this blog. After doing several reviews, I stumbled upon the ability to receive free books in exchange for my thoughts and pursued transactions of this type in earnest. As reviews began piling up, e-mails soon followed containing requests to review books. More often than not, these…
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New Books of Note
Like most people last Monday, I got sunburned near a large body of water. While I was doing that, I read Scot McKnight’s latest book, A Fellowship of Differents. It is essentially a book about the Christian life in community based heavily on the writings of Paul. The six parts of the book trace the Christian life,…
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Sweet Deal on Tyndale Commentaries
You might remember my series on building a theological library. Several volumes were from the Tyndale Commentary series, which is on sale at Westminster.
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New Books of Note
One of my earliest reviews was Joe Thorn’s Note to Self. I thought it was an excellent little devotional work.It is not so much something you read and move on from, but continue to come back to read time and time again. In a very similar vein, Joe Thorn’s most recent book, Experiencing The Trinity: The…
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How Carl Trueman Changed My Mind About Luther
Carl Trueman and I go way back. He doesn’t probably know it (or care), but his writing style and point of view tend wake me from my dogmatic slumbers. The first things I read from him were Wages of Spin and Minority Report, both checked out from the DTS Library. Around this time, Republocrat came out. Later,…
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Genesis Rebooted
A perennial interest for me over the past several years has been understanding the early chapters of Genesis. This reached its height while I was in my last couple of years at Dallas and I was able to take Hebrew III and IV, as well as a Ph.D seminar on ancient Near East literature. Couple…
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What Does The Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality?
It is hard to imagine a more relevant subject in our culture than the issue of homosexuality. Specifically, the issue at hand is how religious liberty and gay rights relate. A more pressing issue, in my mind at least, is how the church is to understand homosexuality and relate to persons who identify as gay…
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New Books of Note
Last year, I used Gerald Bray’s God is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for my 11th grade Bible class. Along the way, I offered several posts with excerpts: The Christian Experience of God God Has Spoken To Us Christian Worldview and Speaking About God The Practice of Theology and Theology of Faith The Mystery…
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New Books of Note
I’ve interacted briefly with several of Baker Books’ Teach The Text commentary series (Romans, Job, Luke). A couple of additional volumes have been added to the series since then and I’ve been able to get a hold of the one on 1 Corinthians by Preben Vang (NT prof at PBA). We are currently going through 1 Corinthians…
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A Pre-Ph.D Reading List of Sorts
I mentioned on Monday that I had withdrawn from Ph.D studies at SBTS. It wasn’t actually official until today when I received the e-mail from the registrar, but everything on my end was done back at the beginning of December. Rather than fully explain what I’m planning to do long term when it comes to Ph.D…