The crop of new theological books for 2011 is huge. The problem is that the cool people seem to read each one while I've only caught up to 1987 (Emergent what?—the New Age is the most pressing issue facing the Christian Church!). The cool people also seem to read all...
Books
Free Kindle Book
A Praying Life, free on Kindle. I know nothing about this book except that 1) it was well-reviewed when it came out and 2) one of my mentors used it in discipling a good friend. If that good friend wants to pipe up in the comments, he’s welcome!
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I can read English, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, German, and Latin, in that order of fluidity. Truth be known, my German is mainly structural, my Latin mainly vestigial—though the latter is strengthened by my Greek. This mix of training means I can piece together a good...
John Frame on Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
You’ll want to read this carefully (I added paragraph divisions to help you do so): It often comes as an exciting discovery that doctrines that seem at first glance to be opposed are actually complementary, if not actually dependent one on another. For Calvinists, for...
How to Use the Blogape Highlighting System in Logos 4
I have a system of highlighting that I have used for several years now that helps me. It’s a free country, so you, of course, can do what you want (except Democrats or Communists do appear to control the choice of highlighter colors; you really can’t get anything but...
The Toolshed Quote
I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place....
The F-Word on a Family-Safe Blog, Or Why Ken Myers Was Right in 1989
The New York Times' Jon Pareles today in a perceptive article: It’s some kind of milestone: Three of the Top 10 hits on last week’s pop music chart have choruses that can’t be played uncensored on the radio and won’t have their original lyrics quoted in this family...
Word Biblical Commentary $400
Get the entire Word Biblical Commentary and Reymond’s Systematic Theology (and a bunch of other stuff you probably already have) for $400 here. As I always say when reposting things from Rejoice Christian Software, don’t ask me how this guy gets these prices. The WBC...
Logos on Kindle
A friend linked me to an ongoing discussion about reading Logos Bible Software books on the Kindle. That discussion took a major turn I didn’t expect: a number of commenters are arguing that exporting Logos books to be read on the Kindle is a violation of the Logos...
Eustace
That tiresome old bother, Eustace, makes a royal nuisance of himself throughout the opening chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. But then Aslan gives Eustace a severe mercy: he turns him into a dragon. He shows everyone, including Eustace himself, what is in...
How to Read Good
I found the following three posts on reading to be genuinely helpful. Carl Trueman’s contrarian views challenge what C.S. Lewis calls our “chronological snobbery”—and even our “continental snobbery.” Fred Sanders’ second paragraph is real gold on reading strategy; it...
Lane Dennis, the ESV, and the Internet Age
Once upon a time, I was preaching as a special youth speaker in a church in the South. It was my fourth or fifth time there. The pastor was KJV-Only, and I knew this, so I converted all the ESV quotations in my sermon to KJV quotations. I was preaching from my...