Category: Personal Adventures
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Reading Theology Together: The Holy Trinity
If you remember this time last year, we started reading John Frame’s Doctrine of The Knowledge of God in my trial run of a Marturo Reading Group. Now that the New Year is upon us, it’s time to start a new book and this time we’re reading Robert Letham’s The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History,…
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How Seminary (Almost) Ruined My Reading Habits
This was my view in the late afternoons in my spot in Turpin Library at Dallas Seminary. I’ve probably put it in a blog post before, but definitely not as many times as I looked up from reading and saw the gist of this picture. I’m a natural lighting kind of guy, so library carrels…
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My 90 Day Challenge For Winter 2013
Rather than shoot for year long plans, I’m doing quarterly goals this year. This means using a 90-day challenge, and within that having clear action items. And as the comic above illustrates, while survival is much more achievable (and concrete) over the course of a year, it’s not really a resolution in any meaningful sense. In my list…
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Navigating New Years With A 90-Day Challenge
Last year, and by last year I mean yesterday, I posted my 13 (abstract) resolutions for 2013. I pointed out that resolutions without an action plan don’t really work. Resolving just do things differently leads to the above comic becoming incarnate in your own life. So, making resolutions concrete involves two steps: Brainstorm concrete actions…
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My 13 Resolutions For 2013
Resolutions are not all that different from commandments. Self-commandments to be sure, but commandments nonetheless. Usually, after some time to reflect on how the past year is gone, we determine (or resolve) to do certain things differently in the following year. And so we command ourselves by resolving to do things differently. There is a certain…
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A Flexible Bible Reading Plan for 2013
With the all the potential reading plans you could adopt in 2013, the most important thing is to have a good Bible reading plan in place. I’ve seen several options present themselves. As usual, Justin Taylor’s is the most comprehensive and includes several different options. For an intriguing approach that utilizes listening and reading, see Joseph…
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The 12 Books I Planned To Read in 2012 And The Lesson Learned
About a year ago, I let you know about 12 books I planned to read in 2012. All of them were rather substantial 500+ page works, and in hindsight, it was a bit aggressive to plan so far in advance. In case you forgot the original list, here it is again: The Theology of Jonathan…
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The Top 12 Posts of 2012
Tuesday, I shared the 12 best books I read in 2012. As the year winds down, it seems about the right time to share what the 12 top posts of 2012 were. After screening out static pages and pages that were clearly being accessed by my students for class materials, here’s what was most visited:…
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The 12 Best Books I Read In 2012
In case you haven’t been paying attention, I’ve done quite a bit of reading this past year. Just how much, you might ask. Well, unlike last year, I didn’t put together a comprehensive list. I did however, pick my 12 favorite reads. I’ve seen some other lists floating around online (like here, here, and here), but my list…
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What’s On Your Home Screen?
When I first got an iPhone (circa 2009), I think I literally spent a week sorting through the app store to find just the right apps. Since then, it’s been a refined process of checking out new apps. I may find out they don’t work for me very well, or it may revolutionize my iPhone…