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  • A Marturo Collective Reading Schedule: Frame, Calvin, and Horton

    If you’re part of our reading group, (which I decided to call The Marturo Collective) here’s the rundown for reading through John Frame’s Doctrine of the Knowledge of God: Week of 1/2: xv-29 Week of 1/9: 30-61 Week of 1/16: 62-100 Week of 1/23: 101-164 Week of 1/30: 169-214 Week of 2/6: 215-241 Week of…

  • The 3650 Challenge

    This isn’t the first, and probably won’t be the last challenge I post about on here. You may remember talk of a 90-day challenge back in the early summer. I’ll have more to say about that, and what I’ll be doing with it come January 1st. In the meantime, I wanted to pass along this…

  • How To Get Free Books for Review in 3 Easy Steps

    Depending on your definition of “easy,” this could be your ticket to drastically reducing your book expenses. It does take some work, but here’s what I did: #1 Start a blog and write on it consistently I’ve been blogging in one form or another for over 8 years now. I’ve been blogging about theological topics…

  • The First Week of BlogX: Complete!

    Well, week one of BlogX is now complete! I’ve really enjoyed being challenged in my blogging and getting new ideas to implement in my writing flow. Here are some of the changes I’ve made this week: I’ll now be blogging on the weekends. I’ll also be posting daily quotes from my reading under the category…

  • How to Be Graciously Critical (Emphasis on the “Critical” Part)

    [This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] Just a caveat before we get started: I don’t necessarily embody this ideal so well myself. Rather than say, “Do as I say, not as I do,” think of this post as more of a line in the sand. In the past I’ve certainly violated both the…

  • Jump Start Your Bible Reading Plan

    [This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] If you subscribe to many blogs, you may have noticed that most Christian blog sites appear to follow an unwritten rule that you have to publish a post about bible reading plans some time on or around New Years. This of course is the typical time to…

  • The Gospel and The Mind

    If you’re looking for a great book on the life of the mind from a Christian perspective, I’d really recommend Bradley Green’s The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life. This makes a good bookend with John Piper’s Think. Just as a brief overview, here’s a rundown of the chapters: Chapter 1…

  • The Price of Contextualization

    Something occurred to me the other day about contextualization. If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s just a fancy way of talking about how you culturally frame the message of either the gospel, or theology in general, in order to make it more easily understood to a particular audience. The concept (or the articulation…

  • How to Judge a Book by its Cover: Slightly Advanced

    I thought it might be helpful to extend the original post, especially after New Growth Press (who got a favorable recommendation) twittered about it later in the week. Here is an extended list of authors, followed by some other hopefully helpful things to do when evaluating a book. Categorically, here are some more authors I…

  • How to Judge a Book by its Cover

    While there is some truth to the maxim to “not judge a book by its cover,” this is generally best applied to people, and even then it can be shown to not be the best way to proceed in all situations. In fact, what actually holds true with respect to being able to understand a…