What I did last month

Through storm and sun, John Grebe traversed the noveling seas. Pitted against a merciless deadline and fighting hordes of distractions, John Grebe persevered. John Grebe launched himself bravely into Week One, sailed through the churning waters of Week Two, skirted the mutinous shoals of Weeks Three and Four, and now have landed, victorious, in a [...]

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Fine Literature

“Studies show that 45 percent of Americans say they never read a book. Worse than that, the National Commission on Excellence in Education reported in 1983 that the average college graduate does not read one serious book in the course of a year. You have too much to lose by not reading, and [...]

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TBR 2008

I just learned about the TBR (To Be Read) Challenge site a few days ago and thought it would be a nice thing to pick up for the year even though its already April. Pretty much its a public challenge to make progress by naming 12 books to knock off one’s to be read [...]

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A Good Christian Sex book

If anyone is looking for a good Christian book on sex, it might be worth your while to read Real Sex the naked truth about chastity by Lauren F. Winner. I’ll admit that its the first book on sex that I’ve read so I don’t know how it compares to others but I find [...]

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motive above skill?

“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself … as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought [...]

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hell as a choice?

“I must be clear. There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. And the higher and mightier it is in the natural order, the more demoniac it will be if it rebels. It’s not out of bad mice or [...]

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Are are focued on the wrong enemy?

“More persistent and more troubling was the practical deism that had wormed its way into the churches of colonial New England, paving the way for theological deism and Transcendentalism to follow. Such practical deism is alive and well today, even in churches that take their stand on the Bible. However correct their statements [...]

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A Scary Idea About Context

“The principle of reading in context certainly makes sense, and most of us will affirm the need to so read the Bible, at least on a theoretical level, but many of us fail to do so in practice. Our failure has more to do with laziness than anything else. We give the Word of God [...]

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