Books

Terrorism and Evangelism

Here's another little helpful and challenging quote I read in Total Church. At present the military and economic might of Western nations is struggling to counter the threat of international terrorism. It is proving difficult to defeat an enemy made up of local cells...

“You Are Now Entering the Mission Field”

I found this little excerpt from Total Church to be a challenging source of wisdom. May God help me to apply these insights. I'm not sure I have good answers to all these questions. We sometimes ask people to imagine they are part of a church-planting team in a...

Wow!

Wow! No doubt businesses will arise that will do what this guy did for a fee. I don't think I could get away with it, and I'm not yet sure I would want to. I'd like to hear what the guy has to say after reading Technopoly and after a few years of experience. I don't...

Logos Survey

Logos' revamped survey is asking users if they have Kindles. That can only mean that they're thinking of opening up a way for Logos content to be used on portable reading devices, something I've been pestering Phil Gons about for a while! Despite respected naysayers,...

The Shack

The Shack has taken America by storm, and like most storms it has kicked up a good bit of controversial dust along the way. I recently reviewed it in order to get a free copy. Mackenzie Alan Phillips is the central character in The Shack. His young daughter, Missy,...

Usage Determines Meaning no. 15

Sidney Landau, lexicographer, has a firm handle on one of my favorite near-inspired dictums, "Usage determines meaning." He devotes some space in his book Dictionaries to covering the history of English usage disputes. In the 18th century, grammar "errors" provoked...

Kindle DX

We were waiting for the announcement, and now it's here: the Kindle DX. It appears to be no different from the Kindle 2 I have—except for a bigger screen, bigger storage, and a bigger price. That's 9.7" vs. 6"; 4GB vs. 2 GB; and $489 vs. $359. (The DX, targeting...

Capitalism Samizdat

I read nearly everything Carl Trueman puts out; I always find his analyses helpful. And he writes very well English. And he's a nice, uh, bloke, I happen to know from personal experience. His recent review essay shows how easy it is to boast that we're not "conforming...

Five Famous Edwards Sermons

A friend recently mentioned to me that he had to read five Jonathan Edwards sermons for class. I've been getting more into Edwards for dissertation research (and for personal enrichment and enjoyment!) over the last while, so here's what I recommended. Four are...

Theologically Exhausted

I've just had the longest post famine in the history of my blog (excluding my honeymoon), I believe. I'm afraid I'm currently focused on work and dissertation, both of which have required significant attention recently. But I can't let my blog readers—both of...

Jacobs on Augustine on the Hermeneutic of Love

To persons who claim that their understanding of Scripture comes from God alone and not from mere humans, Augustine replies that God didn’t teach them the letters of the alphabet. —Alan Jacobs, A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love