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  • Young(er) Wayne Grudem Writes John Frame A Letter

    I love a good vintage theology book. Vintage, in this usage, means late 70’s or early 80’s, and I’m mainly talking about cover aesthetics. The particularly book pictured even comes with sweet character sketches of each of the authors before their respective essays. We’re talking about back when D. A. Carson had a mustache and…

  • Philosophy Friday: Let’s Talk About Worldviews

    Back in the day, I started a very ambitious blog series on philosophy. It was a bit too much. I didn’t particularly care about post length and so was just kind of thinking out loud. If you’re interested (and even if you’re not), here’s the posts: Philosophy 101 Philosophy 101: Clarifying Terms Philosophy 101: Transcendental…

  • 3 Ways To Fight “Book Lust”

    It’s been about 3 years since I started regularly reviewing books on my blog. I’ve read a good many books in that time span. Along the way, I’ve had to make several course corrections and still continue to do so. When it comes down to it though, most of the course corrections can be boiled…

  • 50 Questions To Spend The Rest of Your Life Answering

    I recently finished reading Peter Kreeft’s The Philosophy of Tolkien. It is an excellent book if you like Tolkien and are interested in his ideas. Even if you are not, it is still excellent. As the framework for his book, Kreeft highlights 11 areas of philosophy and 50 questions that Lord of The Rings deals…

  • How To Spend That Amazon Gift Card You Just Got: Kindle Edition

      This post will be much briefer than yesterday’s. I’ve seen a lot of great deals for Kindle books, and just thought you’d like a list of them. Even if you don’t have a Kindle, this can be a great opportunity to get digital copies of some great resources. Much like yesterday, I’m listing these…

  • The Great Christmas Book Preview

    Well, it’s that time of year. Time to the all important gift choices for the book lover in your life. Conveniently, it also time for me to consolidate my review shelf and go ahead and preview several titles that I know I won’t get time to engage in detail. I mentioned this a while back,…

  • God Is Love: Bray on The Filioque Clause

    I missed last week and I actually don’t have highlights for chapter 10 of God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology, which is on Christology. Bray spends most of his time on generation, both in the eternal sense and in the historical sense. He does an adequate job of defending the historically orthodox position…

  • An Old Testament Advent Reading Plan

    Recently, I finished reading Jerram Barrs’ latest book, Delighting In The Law of The Lord: God’s Alternative to Legalism and Moralism. It was my own purchase, so I doubt I’ll do any kind of formal review (you can read an excerpt here though and decide if its something you want to explore further). I would…

  • God Is Love: The Being of God & The God and Father of Jesus Christ

    I decided to move these weekly posts to Saturday rather than Friday. This week, we’re back to two chapters in God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. These two, and the next two, are rather meaty, so I’ll have to be selective with the highlights I share. I’ll try to give a selective quote from…

  • Building A Theological Library: The General Letters

    A couple of weeks ago, we finished Paul’s Letters with a look at my recommendations for commentaries on the Prison and Pastoral Epistles. Just to reiterate, these are my preferences and what make up my library (for the most part). There are definitely some great resources I’ve overlooked. What I’m trying to do here is give you what…