I have a book review of Christ in the Chaos over at the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s website today. Check it out: Christian mom. These two words sound delightful until you are actually faced with the challenge to live out the implications of your faith as a mother. Kimm Crandall describes the burden [...]
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Histories and Fallacies
Carl R. Trueman, Histories and Fallacies (Crossway, 2010) Did you ever read a book on sanctification or the Christian life and become awakened to a whole new host of sins that you didn’t even know you were committing? Well, this book had that same effect on me with historical misdemeanors. As Trueman was introducing fallacies such [...]
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Brad Hambrick, Burnout (P&R, 2013) Like every other morning, I awoke at 6 o’clock to write and study. By 7:00, it was time to rotate to my next usual station, performing the talented task of making breakfasts and lunches simultaneously. Only this time it is Saturday, so my girls are sleeping in and I am [...]
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David L. Allen, Lukan Authorship of Hebrews (B&H, 2010) Well, he had me by page 31. Of course, I want it to be true. A while back ago, I wrote an article about my top three questions I have when I get to heaven. What I only hinted at then is my cockamamie housewife theologian [...]
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Edward T. Welch, What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care? (New Growth Press, 2011) Edward Welch cares way too much about what other people think about him. No really, he does. He says so in his book. That’s why he wrote it. In fact, he found himself needing to go over and [...]
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The Creedal Imperative, Carl R. Trueman (Crossway, 2012) Apparently, this book is too cool for a subtitle. Carl Trueman has a market on cool by rebelling against cool. Especially skinny jeans. But I digress. I’m thinking something like, “The Indicatives are Imperative.” But that’s just me. Does your church catechize or teach with creeds? Sure [...]
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The Organized Heart, Staci Eastin (CruciformPress, 2011) I ordered this book for my church library with the intention of someday reading it myself. Someday. Sure, it sounds positive, especially the subtitle, A Woman’s Guide to Conquering Chaos. I knew that my heart could use some organizing. I knew that there is plenty of chaos in [...]
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Gospel Amnesia, Luma Simms (GCD, 2013) The title gives you a pretty good clue about this book. It’s a condition that we all need to be on guard against. And it can even be contagious. None of us are immune to its pervasiveness. Whole churches can be infected. The author herself had a pretty bad [...]
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If you’ve read any Flannery O’Connor, you are aware of her proclivity to take the reader into the darkness of humanity amidst the everyday, mundane life. She shows us that maybe our ordinary is familiar and common, but it is anything but unexceptional. We discover much about ourselves and the condition of our souls from [...]
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Delighting in the Trinity, Michael Reeves (IVP Academic, 2012) A good book sticks with you after the read. So instead of a usual book review, I thought I’d share an instance of how I am still Delighting in the Trinity: “Well, we all came from stardust…” Sometimes the holidays provide more opportunities to explain our [...]
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