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the Death Penalty
Challies has reviewed The Death Penalty on Trial by Ron Gleason. It sounds like a interesting and useful book for Christians who have trouble with the Death Penalty as a possible punishment by the State. Go read the whole review … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Biblical view of the Death Penalty, challies, death penalty, Death Penalty on Trial, Ron Gleason
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general principles
Kevin DeYoung gleans some general principles from Risking the Truth: Handling Error in the Church, the collection of interviews by Martin Downes. You won’t agree with every line, just like those being interviewed don’t always agree with each other, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Kevin DeYoung, martin downs, pride, Risking the Truth: Handling Error in the Church
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a conception of self
I read the C.S. Lewis space trilogy the first time almost thirty years ago. I read them again 3 or 4 years ago. Powerful stuff. I especially find the story in Perelandra to be a wonderful glimpse into the Garden … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, ego, Perelandra, science fiction trilogy, self, selfishness
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New Piper book, free pdf
zach points out that the new John Piper book with missionary stories is available free for download. DG Blog: John Piper’s new book Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ is now available for download. Get it for free. Read an interview by … Continue reading
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Tagged desiring god, filling up the afflictions of Christ, free book, John Piper, vitamin z, zach nielson
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what do we want?
Todd Bumgarner has a quote from Os Guinness that we all need to ponder long and hard. [E]ven if we can do what we want, the question remains: What do we want? The near-omnipotence of our means of freedom doubles … Continue reading
something about which I had never even thought
here is something that never entered my mind even as a possible remote concept.
marriage links
Jonathan Dodson has a great roundup of links to marriage resources. Go check them out.
New Page
I added a new page over to the left which is the complete 2400 word essay that I wrote about The Shack in four parts here on the blog.
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This Momentary Marriage
I posted a quick bit about John Piper’s book This Momentary Marriage last month with a link to download it in pdf for free. Tim Challies has now reviewed the book and it is a review well worth reading. If … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, John Piper, this momentary marriage, tim challies
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the Shack part IV (conclusion)
this is the wrap up of my series on The Shack. Part I, Part II and Part III are intended to convey to you that God is God. The reason that I am so exercised about this book is simple. … Continue reading
the Shack part III
I have written two posts (part I and part II) now rebutting with scripture this statement from “Sophia” in the Shack: “But I still don’t understand why Missy had to die.” “She didn’t have to, Mackenzie. This was no plan … Continue reading
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Tagged God's glory, jesus, John 9, John the Baptist, Luke 13, matthew 3, repentance, winnowing fork
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the Shack part I
I am reading the Shack. It took all the way to page 165 (out of 246) before I got completely angry. Up to that time I was reading at a relatively low grade frustration level. The prose was juvenile. the … Continue reading
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Tagged evil, free will, god, responsibility, sovereignty, the shack, W. Paul Young
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strong words from ToddonGod
Todd Burus has written a two part “personal” review of the Shack. He pulls no punches on either the theology or the literary style of the book. Entertaining stuff. Now I think that I will have to break down and … Continue reading
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Tagged evangelicalism, heresy, literature, style, substance, the shack, theology, Todd Burus, william p. young
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book sale
I read this book earlier this year. it was really very good indeed. Now it is on sale for 5.00 In celebration of Spectacular Sins winning a Christian Book Award, we’re offering it for $5 through Sunday. Update: This book … Continue reading
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Tagged book sale, christian book awards, John Piper, spectacular sins
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R.C. Sproul on Horton's Christless Christianity
R.C. Sproul has reviewed Michael Horton’s book Christless Christianity and he likes it. here is an excerpt: Leaning heavily upon the research of sociologists of religion such as James Davidson Hunter, and others, Horton has been able accurately to pin … Continue reading
high praise for Finally Alive
John Piper’s new book, Finally Alive is earning high praise by reviewers. Tim Challies says at the beginning of his review: As I read the final page of Finally Alive I realized that I had found a new favorite book … Continue reading
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Tagged adrian warnock, books, finally alive, John Piper, reviews, tim challies
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theistic evolution
as I mentioned yesterday, I read the book Who Was Adam last month. It was interesting, but I kept having a recurring question pop into my head. The question is “why?” Why would God limit himself (in part) to naturalistic … Continue reading
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Tagged challies, creation, evolution, fuz rana, greg koukl, tactics, who was adam
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Spectacular Sins
I am just finishing the book Spectacular Sins by John Piper. As you might expect from Piper, his purpose is to demonstrate from scripture the sovereignty of God in every situation including several specific spectacularly sinful occasions. He deals with … Continue reading
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Tagged John Piper, sin, sovereignty, sovereignty of god, spectacular sins, supremacy of Christ
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Who Was Adam
I read the book Who Was Adam in January. It was very interesting indeed. I would recommend it to anyone interested in seeing an attempt at synthesis between the naturalistic fossil record and the Biblical record of creation in Genesis. … Continue reading
Prodigal God
here is an excerpt from the book the Prodigal God that I mentioned previously here. as quoted by steve mccoy: Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our … Continue reading
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Tim Keller
Tim Keller has a new book out called The Prodigal God. he explains what it is and why he wrote it here. a sample: What’s the book about? It’s about being ‘prodigal.’ The word ‘prodigal’ is an English word that … Continue reading
Christless Christianity
I am going to read this book in the near future. Challies has reviewed Christless Christianity by Michael Horton and the review is awesome. Take a little time and go read the whole review. here is a bit from the … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, christless christianity, michael horton, self help, tim challies, your best life now
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free books
John Piper and Justin Taylor’s book Stand: a Call for Endurance of the Saints is available for sale or by free downloadable pdf. Hat tip to Said at Southwestern where the book is also reviewed. Also the first nine chapters … Continue reading