Category: Misc.

A couple of weeks back I posted about Tim Challies Reading Challenge. I noticed last week that he posted a January update and I thought I’d do the same. I’ll be a little less annotated in listing the books I finished since several of them I need to post full reviews of. I am self…

I have a long history of trying to go to the Evangelical Theological Society’s national conference. My first attempt was in 2010 when it was the much hyped showdown between N. T. Wright and John Piper in Atlanta. I was in my last year in Dallas and it was just too close to Thanksgiving to…

Last week, I explained how to program your mind to stop buying books you don’t need. As I’ve been working through that, and doing some reading I’ll tell you about later, I’ve decided to downside my library some. As part of that, I’m shifting toward using commentaries primarily in Logos, which means I’m selling many print…

It’s that time of again when I reassess my library and have to let some good books go. Actually in these cases, I now have the book in Logos and so don’t feel the need to also have a hard copy. Here’s what I’m trying to sell to you before I list it on Amazon:…

For my first year teaching Old Testament, I set my sights a little too high for a 9th grade audience. I really liked John Walton, and after looking at A Survey of the Old Testament (co-authored with Andrew Hill), I thought it would be a suitable textbook. I mean, it was glossy, full color pages…

Ronald E. Osborn, Death Before The Fall: Biblical Literalism and The Problem of Animal Suffering. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, February 2014. 197 pp. Paperback, $25.00. Buy it: Amazon Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to IVP Academic for the review copy! Ronald Osborn has published articles in numerous journals and magazines and was a Bannerman Fellow at the University of Southern…

In our modern culture, cinematic literacy is an important skill. Particularly for the average Christian going to the movies, but even more so for pastors and teachers. According to Craig Detweiler, “The next generation of pastors, teachers, and therapists must not only learn the language of film but also develop the art of interpretation –…

This probably won’t be a weekly post. Instead, every now and then, I’ll collect brief thoughts on what I’ve been reading. I imagine it will predominantly be books that I don’t plan on reviewing (or more accurately, do not feel obligated to review). But sometimes, if I think the book is going to be a…