I’m not making any resolutions, but I do have some goals for 2008.
#1 To Read at least 4 Christian Classics. I hoping to read The Coming of the Kingdom, Lectures on Calvinism, Biblical Theology, and maybe Lectures to My Students.
#2 Go on a sweet vacation with Jo. I think we are looking into renting a [...]
I have heard a few people state that they are uninterested in my recent wishlist posts, probably because these folks don’t want to buy me any of the things on my list.
Here is the deal with these lists, I have like a dozen people asking me what I want for Christmas, so I thought I [...]
I can cross off three books from the list.
I know Im getting: Seeking A Better Country, and The Churching Of America.
I also got an email from my dad that he has The Coming of The Kingdom, and I can take it.
On further examination, I need to add a few more books to my Winter Wishlist:
Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America
by Darrell L. Guder
The Churching Of America, 1776-2005by Roger Finke, Rodney Stark.
Like many of my compatriots, I am a bibliophile. Growing up I hated books and I never read, but late in college I started to read good books. By the time I was in Seminary, maybe due to my love of the good book, I began to love reading good books. By no means do [...]
In looking back on the long(tongue-in-cheek) time I have spent as a seminary student, I realize that there are a number of books that I wish I had been encouraged to read while at seminary, a few of these books were given as class texts, but most of them were simply recommendations from wiser men. [...]
“I fear that many pastors today have fallen into the error of preaching the doctrines of grace theoretically instead of preaching them practically and using the truths of Scripture to draw men to Christ. Instead of using the Bible as our instrument to draw men into fellowship with God, biblical doctrine has become our grounds [...]
Man last week was crazy.
Wednesday I had Jury duty, and for those of you who have never been, it kind of feels like wait in an airport for a standby flight, but you dont want to get a seat on the plane, and at the end of the day you take the bus home.
Thursday and [...]