Thought I’d start posting reviews here along with on my GoodReads account… The Courage To Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World by David Wells An excellent read and challenging critique. This book is a summary of Wells’ previous 4 volumes, so at times I wished I could have gone deeper into [...]
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Review of David Wells’ “Courage To Be Protestant”
Posted in Books, Culture, Evangelism, Reformation, Theology on November 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sovereignty of God The Father in Salvation according to A.W. Pink
Posted in Books, Grace, Reformation, Scripture, Theology on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From A.W. Pink’s The Sovereignty of God, quoting scripture and Spurgeon in support of predestination: “As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed” (Acts 13:48). Every artifice of human ingenuity has been employed to blunt the sharp edge of this Scripture and to explain away the obvious meaning of these words, but it has [...]
Summer Reading, cont.
Posted in Books, Theology on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple resources for the newest and best in books to fill out your reading plan: World Magazine’s Top 40 books of the year. Christianity Today’s Ten Theology Books for Your Beach Bag.
Summer Reading 2009
Posted in Books on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summer is an excellent time for reading. Winter is also an excellent time for reading. Actually, so is Fall and Spring! So what makes “summer reading” plans so popular? I have no idea. But I’ll follow suit with the rest of the blogosphere and list my summer reading plan, hopefully motivating others to be intentional [...]
Weekly Notables (22)
Posted in Books, Christian Life, Commentary, Supremacy of Christ, Theology on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The last “Weekly Notables.” I have resolved to read more edited, published writing rather than spontaneous “off the cuff” blogging. I’ll still send some good links along sporadically. Reading: Francis of Assissi said what? Preach the Gospel, Use Deeds When Necessary. Health: Do you think you know pain? Check out this guy‘s visibly wincing pain [...]
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