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How to Inhabit Time
How to Inhabit Time by James K A Smith is a wonderful surprise. His voice in this book is different from his other works. It comes out of brokenness. These are lessons learned in the hardest parts of his life and this voice is quite refreshing. One aspect of time I’m reading about now is how to live in the…
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Two surprising reads
Two books I recently finished on Audible were very pleasant surprises for me
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Worth the time to watch and listen/read
I just finished “Class of ’09” on Hulu. It’s a mash up of “Minority Report” meets “Person of Interest” meets “I, Robot.” It is supposed to be a limited series and I hope they keep it that way. It’s just right without having to add a second season.
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The heart of Christ
“Jesus walked the earth rehumanizing the dehumanized and cleansing the unclean. Why? Because his heart refused to let him sleep in. Sadness confronted him in every town. So wherever he went, whenever he was confronted with pain and longing, he speaks the good contagion of his cleansing mercy.” — Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners…
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Is the point of reading to retain?
A particular article I read recently in Christianity Today isn’t available on the web yet, but it caught my attention. Two pastors were having coffee and one was talking about his reading passion. The other pastor listened, but then said with a lot of frustration he just couldn’t read. He did very little because he didn’t retain it. He felt…
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The year in books
There were a few books this year that left me in thought, or challenged me, or inspired me. I read a lot of non-fiction. I listen to a lot of fiction. These are a few that stood out.
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Addicted to Success
I think a close cousin of being “addicted to success” is being addicted to relevance. It’s a problem. “It is often believed that President Teddy Roosevelt called social comparison the ‘thief of joy.’ Whether he said it or not, it’s true: researchers have long found that social comparison lowers our happiness. But you hardly need a study to tell you…
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Generosity and “Last Third” living
I write this to my future self (meaning I am putting this entry in at the end of July to be posted September 1). I am still reflecting on the “last third” of my life and how I want that journey to look. One BIG area I want in my life is the ability to GIVE OUT.
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Not being a fiction reader, I savored this book
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry My rating: 5 of 5 stars I started into the Lonesome Dove series a couple of years back on Audible. They were long and I was driving long trips, so it fit. I was hooked. The story was amazing. The stories of a brutal frontier, the luck of two men, plus the bond they made…
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No surprises for God
I am beginning a brand new book out called Shaky Ground: What to Do After the Bottom Drops Out by Traci Rhoades. It is an invitation to learn from the broader Church and its history rather than one narrow slice of what we have experienced in our lives.
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