Review: Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books
Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books by Tony Reinke My rating: 3 of 5 stars What I have learned from about twenty-years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight,...
Jesus Among Other Gods
I was thrilled and deeply encouraged by this testimony—and it is full of great sermon illustrations. HT: Gerald McDermott
Great Article Ya Gotta Read It
If you've been wanting a good summation of the hot issue of Christian political involvement, look no further. I read this article a little while back when it came out, and when just now I ran across a few quotes I saved from it, I knew I had to recommend it to you and you. Dan Strange writes with exceptional clarity on a hot issue, and I love his title: "The Sufficiency of Scripture for Public Theology." Not everyone, it seems, believes in that sufficiency. Here's Strange laying out the...
Review: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl My rating: 3 of 5 stars If not a book for guys, at least a book clearly written by one. There wasn't a single word about the relationship of the six guys on the raft that I noted—it's all adventure. My rating: 5 stars for bravery, 4 for literary merit (Heyerdahl does write well; I found myself wondering how a Norwegian native could have such a command of English, but I was unable to ascertain if a translator or editor was employed), but...
Book Recommendations from Worldview/Apologetics Teacher, Or, Mount Calvary Baptist Church Usher Reads The Following Books When Not Ushing
My friend Brent Cook, BJU apologetics and worldview teacher, gave me permission to post the following list. This is what he wrote to introduce it: Several have asked for book recommendations related to the classes I’ve taught this semester. Here is a partial list I threw together last night. (“Recommendation” does not imply endorsement of all content.) I’ve also include a general section of fun reads. —B. Cook All of the following links go to Amazon except the ten or so which were carried by...