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Narnia, Muggles, and Hobbits, Oh My!
Consider this a kind of counterpoint to yesterday’s post. To keep my reading well balanced and enjoyable, I’m also reading several fiction classics. Rather than do that alone, I’m part of a Facebook group put together by Mathew Sims (that shares a name with this post’s title) that is reading The Chronicles of Narnia, The…
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6 Big Books I’m Plodding Through This Year
I learned my lesson from last year. Instead of 13 books I’m planning to read through, here are 6 books on the larger side that I’m “plodding” through: Foundations of Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal by Eric L. Johnson A Puritan Theology and Meet the Puritans Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith…
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The Quest For The Trinity
Stephen Holmes, The Quest For The Trinity: The Doctrine of God in Scripture, History, & Modernity. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, November, 2012. 300 pp. Paperback, $26.00. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to IVP Academic for the review copy! Stephen R. Holmes is senior lecturer in systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. I was recently able to read…
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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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Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men To Love and Lead Their Families
Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men To Love and Lead Their Families. Nashville, Thomas Nelson, May, 2012. 272 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Thomas Nelson for the review copy! Douglas Wilson is senior pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho and senior fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College. He’s a fairly prolific author,…
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Proverbs: Wisdom That Works
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., Proverbs: Wisdom That Works (Preaching the Word). Wheaton: Crossway, March, 2012. 224 pp. Hardcover, $27.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. is lead pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, TN. He also happens to be president of Renewal Ministries, a regional director in the Acts 29 Network, and…
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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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