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  • Redeeming Science: A God-Centered Approach

    When break comes, I usually try to tone down the reading, but to keep in the rhythm, I’ll usually have a small stack of books with me. Most of these are ones that are unrelated to anything else I’m studying, so it’s kind of like a break (but not entirely). This winter break, one of…

  • Think: The Life of The Mind and The Love of God

    John Piper, Think: The Life of The Mind and The Love of God. Wheaton: Crossway, September 2010. 224 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page There are a handful books I’ve read recently that I wish I would have had the privilege to read before starting seminary. John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God is…

  • Is Leviathan Really Just a Crocodile?

    For class this semester, one of the book we covered was Job. As usual, I did some supplemental reading, and since the New Studies in Biblical Theology is rapidly becoming my favorite series of books, I chose the one on Job. In Now My Eyes Have Seen You, Robert Fyall is exploring the meaning of…

  • Up for Review

    Here’s some books I’ve read recently that I could do a short review/synopsis of. Let me know if any interest you: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in…

  • Some Pre-November Reading

    Over the weekend I read Carl Trueman’s new book Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative. Basically, to give you an idea who this book is mainly for, it breaks out into two groups of people: Those who love Glenn Beck Those who hate Glenn Beck I could I suppose add a third category for those…

  • Hipster Christianity

    While I sat in a Starbucks in Orlando reading this book back in early August, I had not idea how much attention it would later get. I should have realized though that a book titled Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide would definitely generate a buzz. Here a just a few reviews and interactions floating…

  • The Reason for Sports

    If you are like me, then this weekend was an exciting time for you. The NFL season finally kicked off, and for the next several months, we will have weekends full of football. Over this weekend, along with watching a lot of football, I read through The Reason For Sports: A Christian Fanifesto and found…

  • Covenant: God Pursues

    [This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] Its been awhile, but I should be back on track to finish up exploring Mark Driscoll’s Doctrine. Chapter 6 picks up with what is basically God’s response to humanity’s plunge into sin. Though nothing particularly new to people in the ANE, covenants are not something…

  • A Concise Review of The Greatest Show on Earth

    Hopefully this post can live up to its title and actually be concise and to the point and not sprawling and wordy. Much of today relies on yesterday’s ideas about logic, so if you haven’t read that, go back and read A Few Thoughts on Logic. Now that you’ve done that, we can more forward…

  • Some Things Needed to be Said: Rethinking Velvet Elvis (B)

    I had said in the last post that Rob Bell is rather adept at dropping half truths. This much is true, so accordingly, he does have many insightful things to say in the book. I think in some measure, evangelicals are quick to jump on the bad springs (doctrine) Bell has in his trampoline (both…