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The journey to Troas — Listening Prayer
I have two main problems with Mark Batterson. Correction. I have ONE main problem with him and then I have a major problem with his current book, Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God. (Now that I typed out that title, make it two main problems.)
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Weekend reading
After the turkey… after the shopping… plug your brain back in and read/listen to some challenging work.
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We like having enemies
“As the years passed, I found I rather liked having an enemy. It sharpened my sense of identity.” — Eugene Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire
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Podcast — Public Faith in Action
Thoughts on Volf’s new book: “Public Faith in Action”
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The Ten for 2014
I am a voracious reader. I haven’t been as quick to read a LOT of things recently, but I do love reading. What I am horrible at is getting back INTO books that are significant and worth studying. And I’m REALLY bad about reading fiction… even once. I was meditating on this earlier in the month and thought of the…
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The Ten Book Project
The time in which we live gives us far more accessibility to truly great writing. It also gives us access to truly bad writing as well. Yesterday I was reflecting on life in the 1800s in the United States and thinking of how few books there were. Abraham Lincoln had limited access to books growing up, but he read deeply.…
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The Funeral for Bookstores Has Long Passed
At my age, living in two worlds of digital and print, I lament one passing as I try and embrace another medium. There is an advantage to BOTH, but it’s a world that is not allowing “both” very well anymore. My wife and I were traveling through Des Moines, Iowa yesterday so we stopped at a Christian bookstore that was…
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In the Company of Books
David Brooks is easily one of my favorite columnists. This column on the power of books is tremendous. It emphasizes the need to read. Real books help. (We can have the debate of ebooks vs. hard copies as well.) The point is: READ. We already knew, from research in 27 countries, that kids who grow up in a home with…
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The Power of the Biography
This article echoes one of my favorites genres: the biography. I am not much of a fiction person. I love history and biographies. It is much easier for me to plow through 900 pages on Alexander Hamilton than 200 pages of fiction. (Grisham and Baldacci are the exceptions. Sorry. I’m shallow that way.) There are two autobiographies for Christian reading…
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