Josh's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:59:31 -0700 60 Josh's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Judges, Ruth (The NIV Application Commentary)]]> 279927
Exploring the links between the Bible and our own times, Dr. K. Lawson Younger Jr. shares literary perspectives on the books of Judges and Ruth that reveal ageless truths for our twenty-first-century lives.

Most Bible commentaries take us on a one-way trip from our world to the world of the Bible. But they leave us there, assuming that we can somehow make the return journey on our own. They focus on the original meaning of the passage but don’t discuss its contemporary application. The information they offer is valuable--but the job is only half done!

The NIV Application Commentary Series helps bring both halves of the interpretive task together. This unique, award-winning series shows readers how to bring an ancient message into our postmodern context. It explains not only what the Bible meant but also how it speaks powerfully today.]]> 512 K. Lawson Younger Jr. 0310206367 Josh 4 4.30 2002 Judges, Ruth (The NIV Application Commentary)
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]]> <![CDATA[Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches)]]> 12797238 144 Jonathan Leeman 1433532336 Josh 0 to-read 4.42 Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches)
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]]> <![CDATA[Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus (Building Healthy Churches)]]> 12797239 Why should you join a church?

Becoming a member of a church is an important, and often neglected, part of the Christian life. Yet the trend these days is one of shunning the practice of organized religion and showing a distaste or fear of commitment, especially of institutions.

Jonathan Leeman addresses these issues with a straightforward explanation of what church membership is and why it's important. Giving the local church its proper due, Leeman has built a compelling case for committing to the local body.]]> 142 Jonathan Leeman 1433532379 Josh 5 4.27 Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus (Building Healthy Churches)
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I recommend this book for all at First Free who are not yet members as well as those who are.
]]> <![CDATA[The First Letter to the Corinthians (The Pillar New Testament Commentary (PNTC))]]> 21069893 Those who preach and teach 1 Corinthians will be grateful to Ciampa and Rosner for years to come and scholars will be challenged to see this letter with fresh eyes.]]> 1510 Roy E. Ciampa 1467426946 Josh 0 4.42 2010 The First Letter to the Corinthians (The Pillar New Testament Commentary (PNTC))
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> The Devil's Dictionary 879992
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.
Bride, n.: A woman with a great future behind her.
Consult, v: To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Ambrose Bierce's "dictionary" of epigrams, essays, verses, and vignettes targets the religious, the romantic, the political, and the economic, in equal measure. The book you need to define both friends and enemies, The Devil's Dictionary is also the perfect gift, showcasing Bierce's razor-sharp wit and Ralph Steadman's incisive pen to their best advantage.]]> 171 Ambrose Bierce 1582343802 Josh 3 to-read 4.14 1911 The Devil's Dictionary
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State]]> 23583653
The illustrated guide includes detailed full-color maps, GPS coordinates, and, of course, extensive route descriptions--through historic sights and prairies and state parks, to lakes and rivers and wildlife refuges. The authors identify the best trails for families or going solo; for running or hiking, biking or horseback riding; for hunting wildflowers, encountering wildlife, enjoying scenic vistas, or exploring Kansas history. They also include helpful descriptions of flora and fauna, and historical highlights for each area. Concise, complete, and engaging, this is the guide anyone journeying the trails of Kansas, seasoned hiker and armchair traveler alike, should not be without.]]> 304 Jonathan Conard 0700620664 Josh 0 to-read 4.00 2015 Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State
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]]> <![CDATA[A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World]]> 6426403 277 Paul E. Miller 1600063004 Josh 5 4.33 2009 A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World
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average rating: 4.33
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I'm reading this again in my sermon prep on the Lords Prayer. It's helpful and would recommend it
]]> <![CDATA[Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez]]> 161206 Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.

Here is the poignant journey of a minority student who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation--from his past, his parents, his culture--and so describes the high price of making it in middle-class America.

Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.


]]> 212 Richard Rodríguez 0553231936 Josh 0 3.31 1981 Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
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]]> Home (Gilead, #2) 2924318 Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.

Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend.

Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.

Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake.

Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.]]> 325 Marilynne Robinson 0374299102 Josh 0 4.04 2008 Home (Gilead, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life]]> 24346195 431 Leland Ryken 1433542528 Josh 3 3.96 2015 J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> The Pilgrim's Progress 1145273
Above all, Pilgrim's Progress is a life story. It depicts the life which Bunyan himself lived and, at the same time, the life with which all Christians can substantially identify themselves. For, as Augustus M. Toplady wrote, the book describes 'every stage of a Christian's experience, from conversion to glorification.' It does so with such abiding relevance because Bunyan's world of thought is that of the Bible itself.

This re-typeset edition of Pilgrim's Progress is based on the edition published by John C. Nimmo in 1895. It includes marginal notes and Scripture references, together with the fine etchings by William Strang.]]> 379 John Bunyan 0851512593 Josh 5 4.25 1678 The Pilgrim's Progress
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]]> A Secular Age 824412 874 Charles Margrave Taylor 0674026764 Josh 4 4.28 2007 A Secular Age
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]]> <![CDATA[How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor]]> 18250837 A Secular Age provides a monumental history and analysis of what it means for us to live in our post- Christian present a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. This book by Jamie Smith is a small field guide to Taylor's genealogy of the secular, making it accessible to a wide array of readers. Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular is also, however, a philosophical guidebook for practitioners a kind of how-to manual that ultimately offers guidance on how to live in a secular age. It's an adventure in self-understanding and a way to get our bearings in postmodernity. Whether one is proclaiming faith to the secularized or is puzzled that there continue to be people of faith in this day and age, this is a philosophical story meant to help us locate where we are and what's at stake.]]> 148 James K.A. Smith 0802867618 Josh 4 4.20 2014 How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
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]]> <![CDATA[To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World]]> 7846894 To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive—and provocative—answers to these questions.

Hunter begins with a penetrating appraisal of the most popular models of world-changing among Christians today, highlighting the ways they are inherently flawed and therefore incapable of generating the change to which they aspire. Because change implies power, all Christian eventually embrace strategies of political engagement. Hunter offers a trenchant critique of the political theologies of the Christian Right and Left and the Neo-Anabaptists, taking on many respected leaders, from Charles Colson to Jim Wallis and Stanley Hauerwas. Hunter argues that all too often these political theologies worsen the very problems they are designed to solve. What is really needed is a different paradigm of Christian engagement with the world, one that Hunter calls "faithful presence"—an ideal of Christian practice that is not only individual but institutional; a model that plays out not only in all relationships but in our work and all spheres of social life. He offers real-life examples, large and small, of what can be accomplished through the practice of "faithful presence." Such practices will be more fruitful, Hunter argues, more exemplary, and more deeply transfiguring than any more overtly ambitious attempts can ever be.

Written with keen insight, deep faith, and profound historical grasp, To Change the World will forever change the way Christians view and talk about their role in the modern world.]]> 368 James Davison Hunter 0199730806 Josh 5 4.07 2010 To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
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]]> <![CDATA[Of The Laws Of Ecclesiastical Polity: Volumes 1-4]]> 2413477 1004 Richard Hooker 1592444245 Josh 0 to-read 4.50 Of The Laws Of Ecclesiastical Polity: Volumes 1-4
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]]> <![CDATA[True Stories: And Other Essays]]> 34746416
Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination?

Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on.]]> 360 Francis Spufford 0300230052 Josh 0 to-read 3.66 True Stories: And Other Essays
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]]> Reinventing Bach 17332347
In Reinventing Bach , his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.
As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontier―restoring organs, inventing instruments, and perfecting the tuning system still in use today. Two centuries later, pioneering musicians began to take advantage of breakthroughs in audio recording to make Bach's music the sound of modern transcendence. The sainted organist Albert Schweitzer played to a mobile recording unit set up at London's Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach's organ works to the world beyond the churches. Pablo Casals, recording at Abbey Road Studios, made Bach's cello suites existentialism for the living room; Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, with Fantasia , made Bach the sound of children's playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike. Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations opened and closed the LP era and made Bach the byword for postwar cool; and Yo-Yo Ma has brought Bach into the digital present, where computers and smartphones put the sound of Bach all around us. In this book we see these musicians and dozens of others searching, experimenting, and collaborating with one another in the service of Bach, who emerges as the very image of the spiritualized, technically savvy artist.
Reinventing Bach is a gorgeously written story of music, invention, and human passion―and a story with special relevance in our time, for it shows that great things can happen when high art meets new technology.]]> 518 Paul Elie 0374534047 Josh 0 to-read 4.00 2012 Reinventing Bach
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]]> <![CDATA[The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics]]> 386885 592 Christopher Lasch 0393307956 Josh 0 to-read 4.40 1991 The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
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]]> <![CDATA[The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud]]> 391850 325 Philip Rieff Josh 0 to-read 4.09 1966 The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy]]> 34406240
Cheap Sex takes readers on an extended tour inside the American mating market, and highlights key patterns that characterize young adults' experience today, including the timing of first sex in relationships, overlapping partners, frustrating returns on their relational investments, and a failure to link future goals like marriage with how they navigate their current relationships. Drawing upon several large nationally-representative surveys, in-person interviews with 100 men and women, and the assertions of scholars ranging from evolutionary psychologists to gender theorists, what emerges is a story about social change, technological breakthroughs, and unintended consequences. Men and women have not fundamentally changed, but their unions have. No longer playing a supporting role in relationships, sex has emerged as a central priority in relationship development and continuation. But unravel the layers, and it is obvious that the emergence of "industrial sex" is far more a reflection
of men's interests than women's.]]> 280 Mark Regnerus 0190673613 Josh 0 to-read 4.00 Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition]]> 33246113
Story-telling is foundational to the forms of the fine arts, but it is no less foundational to human reason. Human life in turn constitutes a specific kind of form―a story form. The ancient conception of human life as a pilgrimage to beauty itself is one that we can fully embrace only if we see the essential correlation between reason and story and the essential convertibility of truth, goodness and beauty in beauty. By turns a study in fundamental ontology, aesthetics, and political philosophy, Wilson's book invites its readers to a renewal of the West's intellectual tradition.]]> 352 James Matthew Wilson 0813229286 Josh 0 to-read 4.08 2013 The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues]]> 26723871 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player.

In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle's company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues.

Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you're a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.]]> 240 Patrick Lencioni 1119209595 Josh 4 4.21 2016 The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues
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]]> <![CDATA[Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism]]> 15782670 In Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism, Dr. R.C. Sproul takes his stand for the cardinal doctrines of Protestantism in opposition to the errors of the Roman Catholic Church. Sproul, a passionate defender of the gospel of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, cites the historic statements of the Protestant Reformers and the Roman Catholic authorities, then references modern doctrinal statements to show that the Roman Catholic Church has not altered its official positions. In light of this continuing gap, he writes, efforts by some in the evangelical camp to find common ground with Rome on matters at the heart of the gospel are nothing short of untrue to biblical teaching. In Sproul s estimation, the Reformation remains relevant.
Are We Together? is a clarion call to evangelicals to stand firm for the gospel, the precious good news of salvation as it is set forth in Scripture alone.]]> 125 R.C. Sproul 1567692826 Josh 4 4.27 2012 Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation]]> 7505066 208 Michael Reeves 1433669315 Josh 4 4.40 2009 The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
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]]> John Calvin--A Biography 1360807 224 Thomas Henry Louis Parker 0664231810 Josh 4 3.69 1975 John Calvin--A Biography
author: Thomas Henry Louis Parker
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]]> <![CDATA[Elders in the Life of the Church: Rediscovering the Biblical Model for Church Leadership (9marks Life in the Church)]]> 18815643 256 Phil A. Newton 0825442729 Josh 0 to-read 4.28 Elders in the Life of the Church: Rediscovering the Biblical Model for Church Leadership (9marks Life in the Church)
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]]> <![CDATA[40 Questions About Elders and Deacons (40 Questions & Answers)]]> 3154104 272 Benjamin L. Merkle 0825433649 Josh 0 to-read 4.03 2007 40 Questions About Elders and Deacons (40 Questions & Answers)
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]]> <![CDATA[Gathering: A Spirituality And Theology of Worship in Free Church Tradition]]> 2866398 336 Christopher J. Ellis 0334029678 Josh 0 to-read 3.85 2004 Gathering: A Spirituality And Theology of Worship in Free Church Tradition
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]]> <![CDATA[Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History]]> 3307416 Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history's most influential cities --Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York.

Wilson issues a challenge to our collective understanding of history with the juxtapositions of freedom and its intrinsic failures; liberty and its deep-seated liabilities. Each revelation beckoning us deeper into a city's story, its political systems, and how it flourished and floundered.

You'll discover the significance of:

Jerusalem's complex history and its deep-rooted character as the city of freedom, where people found their spiritual liberty.
Athens' intellectual influence as the city of reason and birthplace of democracy.
Rome's evolution as the city of law and justice and the freedoms and limitations that come with liberty.
London's place in the world's history as the city of literature where man's literary imagination found its wings.
New York's rise to global fame as the city of commerce and how it triggered unmatched wealth, industry, and trade throughout the world.

Five Cities that Ruled the World chronicles the destruction, redemption, personalities, and power structures that altered the world's political, spiritual, and moral center time and again. It's an inspiring, enlightening global perspective that encourages readers to honor our shared history, contribute to the present, and look to the future with unmistakable hope.]]> 256 Douglas Wilson 1595551360 Josh 0 to-read 3.58 2008 Five Cities that Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and New York Shaped Global History
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]]> <![CDATA[A Lector's Guide and Commentary to the Revised Common Lectionary (Year C)]]> 7302234 384 J. Ted Blakley 0961811250 Josh 0 to-read 5.00 A Lector's Guide and Commentary to the Revised Common Lectionary (Year C)
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]]> <![CDATA[Disciples Are Made Not Born: Helping Others Grow to Maturity in Christ]]> 1164546 240 Walter A. Henrichsen 0781438837 Josh 0 to-read 4.15 2002 Disciples Are Made Not Born: Helping Others Grow to Maturity in Christ
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]]> <![CDATA[Lifestyle Discipleship: Encouraging Others to Spiritual Maturity]]> 10285247 208 Jim Petersen 1600062113 Josh 0 to-read 3.50 1993 Lifestyle Discipleship: Encouraging Others to Spiritual Maturity
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]]> <![CDATA[12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You]]> 31804439 Do You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You?

Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted.

Drawing from the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed us—for good and bad. Reinke calls us to cultivate wise thinking and healthy habits in the digital age, encouraging us to maximize the many blessings, to avoid the various pitfalls, and to wisely wield the most powerful gadget of human connection ever unleashed.

]]> 224 Tony Reinke 1433552434 Josh 4 4.28 2017 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
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]]> <![CDATA[Prayers on the Psalms: From The Scottish Psalter of 1595]]> 9331805 150 David B. Calhoun 184871095X Josh 0 to-read 4.38 1595 Prayers on the Psalms: From The Scottish Psalter of 1595
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]]> <![CDATA[An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness]]> 19336430 480 Andrew M. Davis 1620202360 Josh 0 to-read 4.40 2013 An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness
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]]> <![CDATA[The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation]]> 31625593 In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative columnist Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life.

The light of the Christian faith is flickering out all over the West, and only the willfully blind refuse to see it. From the outside, American churches are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. From the inside, they are being hollowed out by the departure of young people and a watered-down pseudo-spirituality. Political solutions have failed, as the triumph of gay marriage and the self-destruction of the Republican Party indicate, and the future of religious freedom has never been in greater doubt. The center is not holding. The West, cut off from its Christian roots, is falling into a new Dark Age.

The bad news is that the roots of religious decline run deeper than most Americans realize. The good news is that the blueprint for a time-tested Christian response to this decline is older still. In The Benedict Option, Dreher calls on traditional Christians to learn from the example of St. Benedict of Nursia, a sixth-century monk who turned from the chaos and decadence of the collapsing Roman Empire, and found a new way to live out the faith in community. For five difficult centuries, Benedict's monks kept the faith alive through the Dark Ages, and prepared the way for the rebirth of civilization. What do ordinary 21st century Christians -- Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox -- have to learn from the teaching and example of this great spiritual father? That they must read the signs of the times, abandon hope for a political solution to our civilization's problems, and turn their attention to creating resilient spiritual centers that can survive the coming storm. Whatever their Christian tradition, they must draw on the secrets of Benedictine wisdom to build up the local church, create countercultural schools based on the classical tradition, rebuild family life, thicken communal bonds, and develop survival strategies for doctors, teachers, and others on the front lines of persecution.

Now is a time of testing, when believers will learn the difference between shallow optimism and Christian hope. However dark the shadow falling over the West, the light of Christianity need not flicker out. It will not be easy, but Christians who are brave enough to face the religious decline, reject trendy solutions, and return to ancient traditions will find the strength not only to survive, but to thrive joyfully in the post-Christian West. The Benedict Option shows believers how to build the resistance and resilience to face a hostile modern world with the confidence and fervor of the early church. Christians face a time of choosing, with the fate of Christianity in Western civilization hanging in the balance. In this powerful challenge to the complacency of contemporary Christianity, Dreher shows why those in all churches who fail to take the Benedict Option aren't going to make it.]]> 262 Rod Dreher 0735213291 Josh 0 to-read 3.76 2017 The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
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]]> <![CDATA[Early Christianity and Greek Paideia]]> 362387
Werner Jaeger shows that without the large postclassical expansion of Greek culture the rise of a Christian world religion would have been impossible. He explains why the Hellenization of Christianity was necessary in apostolic and postapostalic times; points out similarities between Greek philosophy and Christian belief; discuss such key figures as Clement, Origen, and Gregory of Nyssa; and touches on the controversies that led to the ultimate complex synthesis of Greek and Christian thought.]]> 162 Werner Wilhelm Jaeger 0674220528 Josh 0 to-read 4.19 1961 Early Christianity and Greek Paideia
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]]> <![CDATA[Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture]]> 30144735 208 David P. Murray 1433555182 Josh 5 4.28 2017 Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology]]> 11597901
An experienced Web developer and writer on technology and culture, John Dyer answers these questions and more by walking through the story of the Bible and introducing key ideas about how technology and culture interact. Dyer first analyzes the biblical, theological, and philosophical foundations of technology and then studies several examples that show how technology can influence the spiritual life. For youth pastors, college-aged readers, and anyone interested in understanding how technology fits with faith, "From the Garden to the City" fills a gap for biblically-informed literature in a technological world.

"The burgeoning field of internet possibilities has very little written from a Christian perspective, much less from a gifted artist like John Dyer."--J. Scott Horrell, Professor of Theological Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary

"Of all the voices speaking and writing on the subject today, John Dyer's is among the voices I most respect. [His] unique combination of technological and theological passion, insight, and credentials make him an author and thought leader that people of faith need to hear from."--Scott McClellan, editor, "Collide Magazine"]]> 192 John Dyer 0825426685 Josh 0 to-read 4.09 2011 From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology
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]]> <![CDATA[The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century]]> 1511228 520 Hans J. Hillerbrand 0664224024 Josh 0 to-read 4.40 2007 The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century
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]]> <![CDATA[Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age]]> 28504405
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity � and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don’t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.

We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents� attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with � a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square.

The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity.

But there is good we are resilient. Conversation cures.

Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human—and humanizing—thing that we do.

The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other.

Turkle's latest book, The Empathy Diaries (3/2/21) is available now.]]> 448 Sherry Turkle 0143109790 Josh 0 to-read 4.06 2015 Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place]]> 30259180
Drawing on in-depth original research from the Barna Group, Andy Crouch shows readers that the choices we make about technology have consequences we may never have considered. He takes readers beyond the typical questions of what, where, and when and instead challenges them to answer provocative questions like, Who do we want to be as a family? and How does our use of a particular technology move us closer or farther away from that goal? Anyone who has felt their family relationships suffer or their time slip away amid technology's distractions will find in this book a path forward to reclaiming their real life in a world of devices.]]> 224 Andy Crouch 0801018668 Josh 0 to-read 4.24 2017 The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
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]]> The Pastor: A Memoir 8726477 336 Eugene H. Peterson 0061988200 Josh 4 4.44 2011 The Pastor: A Memoir
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]]> Zeal without Burnout 27306717 125 Christopher Ash 1784980218 Josh 0 4.28 2016 Zeal without Burnout
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]]> The Essays: A Selection 30741 The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics.

To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. On Some Lines of Virgil opens out into a frank discussion of sexuality and makes a revolutionary case for the equality of the sexes. In On Experience he superbly propounds his thoughts on the right way to live, while other essays touch on issues of an age struggling with religious and intellectual strife, with France torn apart by civil war. These diverse subjects are united by Montaigne's distinctive voice - that of a tolerant man, sceptical, humane, often humorous and utterly honest in his pursuit of the truth.

M.A. Screech's distinguished translation fully retains the light-hearted and inquiring nature of the essays. In his introduction, he examines Montaigne's life and times, and the remarkable self-portrait that emerges from his works.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1586) studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection.

If you enjoyed The Essays: A Selection, you might like Francis Bacon's The Essays, also available in Penguin Classics.

Alternate cover edition here.]]> 480 M.A. Screech 0140446028 Josh 0 to-read 4.05 2011 The Essays: A Selection
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]]> <![CDATA[Don't Fire Your Church Members: The Case for Congregationalism]]> 25102472
Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work.

In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus� authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission. ]]> 208 Jonathan Leeman 1433686236 Josh 4 4.23 2016 Don't Fire Your Church Members: The Case for Congregationalism
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]]> <![CDATA[Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage]]> 29006839 208 Rob Green 194257259X Josh 4 4.32 Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Judges (New International Commentary on the Old Testament (NICOT))]]> 14930632
Webb concentrates throughout on what the biblical text itself throws into prominence, giving space to background issues only when they cast significant light on the foreground. For those who want more, the footnotes and bibliography provide helpful guidance. The end result is a welcome resource for interpreting one of the most challenging books in the Old Testament.]]> 575 Barry G. Webb 0802826288 Josh 4 4.37 2012 The Book of Judges (New International Commentary on the Old Testament (NICOT))
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]]> <![CDATA[Judges: Such a Great Salvation (Focus on the Bible)]]> 1634392 240 Dale Ralph Davis 1845501381 Josh 4 4.55 2003 Judges: Such a Great Salvation (Focus on the Bible)
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]]> <![CDATA[Judges and Ruth: God in Chaos (Preaching the Word)]]> 23531554
Exploring the stories of figures such as Gideon, Samson, Naomi, and Ruth, this accessible commentary emphasizes the countless ways God protected and preserved his people in the Bible. Experienced preacher Barry Webb explores important connections between Judges and Ruth, reminding us of God’s promises to his people and offering practical applications for daily life―pointing us toward the hope of the coming King of kings, Jesus Christ.

Part of thePreaching the Wordseries.]]> 304 Barry G. Webb 1433506769 Josh 4 4.39 2015 Judges and Ruth: God in Chaos (Preaching the Word)
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession]]> 893035 � Are our musical preferences shaped in utero?
� Is there a cutoff point for acquiring new tastes in music?
� What do PET scans and MRIs reveal about the brain’s response to music?
� Is musical pleasure different from other kinds of pleasure?

This Is Your Brain on Music explores cultures in which singing is considered an essential human function, patients who have a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studying why two people may not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.]]> 322 Daniel J. Levitin 0452288525 Josh 0 to-read 3.71 2006 This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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]]> <![CDATA[Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age]]> 10771378
We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse. And the best way to do that, Wolfe believes, is to draw nourishment from the deepest sources of culture: art and religious faith.

Wolfe has been called “one of the most incisive and persuasive voices of our generation,� and this penetrating and wide-ranging book makes a powerful case for the importance of beauty and imagination to cultural renewal. He begins by tracing his own journey from a young culture warrior bent on attacking the modern world to a career devoted to nurturing the creation of culture through contemporary literature and art that renew the Western tradition. Along the way, Wolfe finds in Renaissance Christian humanists like Erasmus and Thomas More—and their belief that imagination and the arts are needed to offset the danger of ideological abstractions� a “distant mirror� in which to see our own times.

Beauty Will Save the World offers a revealing introduction to the artists and thinkers who are the Christian humanists of the modern era, from well-known figures like Evelyn Waugh and Wendell Berry to lesser-known authors like Shusaku Endo, Andrew Lytle, and Geoffrey Hill. A section on visual artists Mary McCleary, Fred Folsom, and Makoto Fujimura (accompanied by reproductions of their works) demonstrates that there are artists who can reimagine the Western tradition in strikingly contemporary terms. Finally, Wolfe pays tribute to the conservative thinkers who served as his mentors: Russell Kirk, Gerhart Niemeyer, Marion Montgomery, and Malcolm Muggeridge� all of whom rejected rigid ideology and embraced culture and tradition.

At a time when our public discourse has come to be dominated by warring factions with little regard for truth, Wolfe’s affirmation of beauty as a redemptive force is both refreshing and encouraging.]]> 278 Gregory Wolfe 1933859881 Josh 4 4.15 2011 Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age
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]]> <![CDATA[The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World]]> 13594148 534 Iain McGilchrist 0300188374 Josh 0 to-read 4.40 2009 The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Compelling Community: Where God's Power Makes a Church Attractive (9Marks)]]> 23236690 What does a community that testifies to God's power look like?

God's people are called to a togetherness and commitment that transcends all natural boundaries--whether ethnic, generational, or economic. But such a community can be enjoyed only when it relies on the power of God in the gospel.

In The Compelling Community, pastors Mark Dever and Jamie Dunlop cast a captivating vision for authentic fellowship in the local church that goes beyond small groups. Full of biblical principles and practical advice, this book will help pastors lead their congregations toward the kind of community that glorifies God, edifies his people, and attracts the lost.]]> 224 Mark Dever 1433543540 Josh 4 4.46 2015 The Compelling Community: Where God's Power Makes a Church Attractive (9Marks)
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]]> <![CDATA[God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas (Reader's Edition)]]> 2156205
Featuring daily meditations for the complete seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, contributors Scott Cairns, Emilie Griffin, Richard John Neuhaus, Kathleen Norris, Eugene Peterson, and Luci Shaw offer a tapestry of reflection, Scripture, prayer and history. These profound words are enhanced by classic and contemporary art masterpieces carefully selected by the editors. God With Us will make anyone's journey to the stable in Bethlehem and the child in the manger utterly unforgettable.]]> 192 Greg Pennoyer 1557255415 Josh 3 4.29 2007 God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas (Reader's Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ]]> 27840638
“Had I stumbled on the hallelujah truth, or just gone mad—or, that is, had I gone mad again?�

No one was more surprised than Andrew Klavan when, at the age of fifty, he found himself about to be baptized. Best known for his hard-boiled, white-knuckle thrillers and for the movies made from them—among them True Crime (directed by Clint Eastwood) and Don’t Say a Word (starring Michael Douglas)—Klavan was born in a suburban Jewish enclave outside New York City. He left the faith of his childhood behind to live most of his life as an agnostic in the secular, sophisticated atmosphere of New York, London, and Los Angeles. But his lifelong quest for truth—in his life and in his work—was leading him to a place he never expected.

In The Great Good Thing, Klavan tells how his troubled childhood caused him to live inside the stories in his head and grow up to become an alienated young writer whose disconnection and rage devolved into depression and suicidal breakdown. But he also stumbled into a genuine romance, a passionate and committed marriage whose uncommon and enduring devotion convinced him of the reality of love.

In those years, Klavan fought to ignore the insistent call of God, a call glimpsed in a childhood Christmas at the home of a beloved babysitter, in a transcendent moment at his daughter’s birth, and in a snippet of a baseball game broadcast that moved him from the brink of suicide. But more than anything, the call of God existed in stories—the stories Klavan loved to read and the stories he loved to write.

The Great Good Thing is the dramatic, soul-searching story of a man born into an age of disbelief who had to abandon everything he thought he knew in order to find his way to the truth.]]> 304 Andrew Klavan 071801734X Josh 0 to-read 4.45 2016 The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
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]]> Between the World and Me 25489625 “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.�

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,� a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.]]> 152 Ta-Nehisi Coates Josh 0 to-read 4.40 2015 Between the World and Me
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]]> <![CDATA[Till He Come: A collection of Communion addresses (Christian Heritage)]]> 930069 NULL NULL NULL NULL 1857927486 Josh 0 to-read 4.67 1969 Till He Come: A collection of Communion addresses (Christian Heritage)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories]]> 114823
Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years.

This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.]]> 728 Christopher Booker 0826480373 Josh 0 to-read 3.75 2004 The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist]]> 21878556 224 Larry Alex Taunton 0718022173 Josh 0 to-read 3.91 2016 The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist
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]]> <![CDATA[Dynamics of Worship: Foundations and Uses of Liturgy]]> 15845773 224 Richard Paquier Josh 0 to-read 4.60 1967 Dynamics of Worship: Foundations and Uses of Liturgy
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]]> A Burnt-Out Case 347629 192 Graham Greene 0099478439 Josh 0 to-read 3.94 1960 A Burnt-Out Case
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition]]> 22895575
Dom Gregory Dix's classic account of the development of the Eucharist rite continues to be the definitive and authoritative work on the subject. He presents his massive scholarship in lively and non technical language for all who wish to understand their worship in terms of the framework from which it has evolved. He demonstrates the creative force of Christianity over the centuries through liturgy and the societies it has moulded. His great work has for nearly fifty years regularly been quoted for its devotional as well as its historical value, and has regularly attracted new readers.

In this book for the first time, critical studies in the learned periodicals of many countries have been carefully sifted and the results arranged to give a clear picture of the development of the Eucharistic rite.]]> 816 Gregory Dix 0567661571 Josh 0 to-read 4.67 1945 The Shape of the Liturgy, New Edition
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]]> <![CDATA[Augustine of Hippo: A Biography]]> 17802855 This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.]]> 548 Peter Brown 0520280415 Josh 0 currently-reading 4.39 1967 Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
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]]> The Soul of Prayer 1119645 108 P.T. Forsyth 1573830402 Josh 0 to-read 4.08 1916 The Soul of Prayer
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]]> <![CDATA[Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)]]> 633850
In the pages of this book, readers will meet writers, past and present who carry on a great literary tradition. By supporting worthy authors, Christians can exert a powerful influence on their culture.

"What a superb resource this is! It resonates with profound perceptions of how good literature works to enrich and illuminate us. Dr. Veith proves himself once again to be a knowledgeable guide through the landscape of the written word." —Luci Shaw, author of God in the Dark and Polishing the Petoskey Stone

"Veith makes it clear that the joys of reading can be deep joys of the type which can enliven our souls. This book should raise significantly the cultural level of evangelicalism." --Dr. Edward E. Ericson, Jr., Calvin College

"Reading Between the Lines is thoroughly readable and thoroughly literate--a magnificent blending of history, literature, and theology that will be welcomed by professionals and laity alike." --Dr. Wayne Martindale, Wheaton College

"Ed Veith has written on important topics with his usual clarity, good sense, organizing ability, and comprehensiveness. The scope of the project is impressive." --Dr. Leland Ryken, Wheaton College]]> 256 Gene Edward Veith Jr. 0891075828 Josh 0 to-read 4.18 1990 Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot]]> 568864
Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind is one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched the modern American Conservative Movement when it was first published in 1953 and has become an enduring classic of political thought.

The seventh revised edition features the complete text and an introduction by publisher Henry Regency.

A must-read.]]> 534 Russell Kirk 0895261715 Josh 0 to-read 4.13 1953 The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
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]]> Poems and Prose 341340 sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of 24, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wish of my superiors.' The poems, letters, and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life and published posthumously in 1918.

His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Intense, vital, and individual, his writing is the 'terrible crystal' through which the soul--the inscape, the nature of things--may be illuminated.]]> 260 Gerard Manley Hopkins 0140420150 Josh 0 to-read 4.24 1953 Poems and Prose
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]]> <![CDATA[The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople]]> 16241133 The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition.

Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and Greek rationality blossom while the Inquisition gathers strength. As kings and emperors continue to insist on their divine rights, ordinary people all over the world seize power: the lingayats of India, the Jacquerie of France, the Red Turbans of China, and the peasants of England.

New threats appear, as the Ottomans emerge from a tiny Turkish village and the Mongols ride out of the East to set the world on fire. New currencies are forged, new weapons invented, and world-changing catastrophes alter the landscape: the Little Ice Age and the Great Famine kill millions; the Black Death, millions more. In the chaos of these epoch-making events, our own world begins to take shape.

Impressively researched and brilliantly told, The History of the Renaissance World offers not just the names, dates, and facts but the memorable characters who illuminate the years between 1100 and 1453 � years that marked a sea change in mankind’s perception of the world.]]> 785 Susan Wise Bauer 0393059766 Josh 0 to-read 4.16 2013 The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
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]]> How to Read a Poem 16940 How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.


Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.

Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis.

Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and many more.

Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.]]> 192 Terry Eagleton 1405151412 Josh 0 to-read 3.76 2006 How to Read a Poem
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]]> Slow Reading in a Hurried Age 17804357
Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and improve concentration. David Mikics, a noted literary scholar, demonstrates exactly how the tried-and-true methods of slow reading can provide a more immersive, fulfilling experience. He begins with fourteen preliminary rules for slow reading and shows us how to apply them. The rules are followed by excursions into key genres, including short stories, novels, poems, plays, and essays.

Reading, Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere escape either, but a way to live life at a higher pitch. A good book is a pathway to finding ourselves, by getting lost in the words and works of others.]]> 336 David Mikics 0674724720 Josh 0 to-read 3.51 2013 Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
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]]> <![CDATA[The Method and Message of Jesus' Teachings]]> 1098353 203 Robert H. Stein 0664255132 Josh 0 to-read 3.92 1978 The Method and Message of Jesus' Teachings
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]]> Voices from the Gulag 6458574 440 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 0810126559 Josh 0 to-read 4.00 2009 Voices from the Gulag
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]]> <![CDATA[Words Made Fresh: Essays on Literature and Culture]]> 11722077
Each essay here seems a kind of heirloom, important and timeless, a real window into the soul of American culture and its literary figures. These words give us a place in which to find rest, and a clarity and depth of understanding regarding today's trends from a man well acquainted with the wounds and gifts of this world. Woiwode offers us a collection of insightful and provocative commentaries that are certain to produce a marked upwelling of joy as we revel in his mastery of language and stimulating observations of both literature and culture. An absorbing work to read and reread.

Guns & peace : on an American icon --
Homeplace, heaven or hell?: on the order of existence --
Views of Wendell Berry: on life against agribusiness --
AmLit: on a writer's incorrect views --
Gardner's memorial in real time: on the achievement of Mickelsson --
Gospels of Reynolds Price: on trials of translating --
Updike's sheltered self: on America's maestro --
Deconstructing God: on views of education --
Dylan to CNN: on news and not news --
The faith of Shakespeare: on my favorite actor --
About the essays]]> 191 Larry Woiwode 1433527405 Josh 0 to-read 3.43 2011 Words Made Fresh: Essays on Literature and Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose]]> 120549
At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.

In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing.

The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.

Originally published in 1994.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.]]> 234 Francis-Noel Thomas 0691029172 Josh 0 to-read 4.06 1994 Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Prose
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]]> <![CDATA[Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All]]> 585474 272 William Zinsser 0062720406 Josh 0 to-read 3.80 1988 Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
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]]> <![CDATA[Words for Readers and Writers: Spirit-Pooled Dialogues]]> 16228953 240 Larry Woiwode 143353522X Josh 0 to-read 3.68 2013 Words for Readers and Writers: Spirit-Pooled Dialogues
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]]> <![CDATA[1 Corinthians: The Word of the Cross (Preaching the Word)]]> 24346152

In this commentary, pastor Stephen Um uses powerful illustrations and practical applications to point readers and teachers of the Bible to the heart of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians: the gospel of Jesus Christ that has the power to save, change, and unite God's people.]]> 368 Stephen T. Um 1433512009 Josh 0 to-read 4.23 2015 1 Corinthians: The Word of the Cross (Preaching the Word)
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]]> The Christian Ministry 2621054

The Christian Ministry is Bridges' best known literary work, but his expositions of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Psalm 119 are also highly valued.


Bridges begins by considering the general and personal cause of ministerial ineffectiveness, and goes on to examine comprehensively preaching and pastoral work. This book was one of the few which the godly Robert Murray M'Cheyne took with him to the Holy Land, and, in its field, it is without an equal.]]> 390 Charles Bridges 0851510876 Josh 0 to-read 4.47 2015 The Christian Ministry
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]]> <![CDATA[Going Public: Why Baptism Is Required for Church Membership]]> 23493020 256 Bobby Jamison 1433686201 Josh 0 to-read 4.26 2015 Going Public: Why Baptism Is Required for Church Membership
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]]> <![CDATA[Pastoral Graces: Reflections on the Care of Souls]]> 13222254 176 Lee Eclov 0802405673 Josh 0 to-read 4.20 2012 Pastoral Graces: Reflections on the Care of Souls
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais]]> 1168262
This great comic narrative, written in hugely popular installments over more than two decades, was unsparingly satirical of scholarly pomposity and the many abuses of religious, legal, and political power. The books were condemned at various times by the Sorbonne and narrowly escaped being banned. Behind Rabelais's obvious pleasure in lampooning effete erudition and the excesses of society is the humanist's genuine love of knowledge and belief in the basic goodness of human nature. The bawdy wit and uninhibited zest for life that characterize his unlikely trio of travelers have delighted readers and inspired other writers ever since the exploits of Gargantua and Pantagruel first appeared.]]> 1114 François Rabelais 0520064003 Josh 0 to-read 4.50 1534 The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais
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]]> <![CDATA[The Universe According to G.K. Chesterton: A Dictionary of the Mad, Mundane and Metaphysical]]> 11247753 Water : A medicine. It should be taken in small quantities in very extreme cases; as when one is going to faint.
Work : Doing what you do not like.
This quirky, original compilation serves up the eccentric wit and thought-provoking aphorisms of one of the twentieth century's liveliest and most articulate minds. Assembled by the president of the American Chesterton Society, it features alphabetical entries of "Chesternitions"—pithy and poetic definitions of words in the spirit of Samuel Johnson. Great for casual browsing or cover-to-cover study, the volume includes more than two dozen of Chesterton's distinctive drawings.]]> 144 G.K. Chesterton 0486481158 Josh 0 to-read 4.36 2011 The Universe According to G.K. Chesterton: A Dictionary of the Mad, Mundane and Metaphysical
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]]> The Complete Works 30734 Essays as ‘a book consubstantial with its author�, Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the great themes of existence through the prism of his own self-consciousness. Apparent in every line he wrote, his virtues of tolerance, moderation and disinterested inquiry amount to an undeclared manifesto for the Enlightenment, whose prophet he is. This complete edition of his works supplements the Essays with travel diaries and letters, thereby completing the portrait of a true Renaissance man.]]> 1392 Michel de Montaigne 1400040213 Josh 0 to-read 4.64 1592 The Complete Works
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips & Cracks from the Pen of G.K. Chesterton]]> 7692617
He was also a wordsmith of the highest order, capable of making words dance with delight upon the page.

The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton is a unique collection of the pithiest and most profound sentences ever to spring from his pen. Editor and renowned apologist Dave Armstrong has scoured Chesterton's voluminous writings, even the most obscure, gathering together his choicest quotes and meticulously organizing them by topic. Sure to delight readers with its wit and charm.]]> 392 Dave Armstrong 1935302191 Josh 0 to-read 4.42 2009 The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips & Cracks from the Pen of G.K. Chesterton
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]]> <![CDATA[1 Corinthians: (A Paragraph-by-Paragraph Exegetical Evangelical Bible Commentary - BECNT) (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)]]> 148173 896 David E. Garland 080102630X Josh 0 4.21 2003 1 Corinthians: (A Paragraph-by-Paragraph Exegetical Evangelical Bible Commentary - BECNT) (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)
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]]> <![CDATA[Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age]]> 23492959
What then is a right or biblical polity? The contributors to this volume make an exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity. Right polity, they argue, is congregationalism, elder leadership, diaconal service, regenerate church membership, church discipline, and a Baptist approach to the ordinances.

Each section explores the pastoral applications of these arguments. How do congregationalism and elder leadership work together? When should a church practice church discipline? How can one church work with another in matters of membership and discipline?

To be read sequentially or used as a reference guide, Baptist Foundations provides a contemporary treatment of Baptist church government and structures, the first of its kind in decades.]]> 432 Mark Dever 1433681048 Josh 0 4.37 2015 Baptist Foundations: Church Government for an Anti-Institutional Age
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]]> <![CDATA[Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation]]> 7493
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and perhaps any--came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and Hamilton's deadly duel, and what may have really happened; Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison's secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton's financial plan; Franklin's petition to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery--his last public act--and Madison's efforts to quash it; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address, announcing his retirement from public office and offering his country some final advice; Adams's difficult term as Washington's successor and his alleged scheme to pass the presidency on to his son; and finally, Adams and Jefferson's renewed correspondence at the end of their lives, in which they compared their different views of the Revolution and its legacy.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were not primarily legal, constitutional, or institutional, but intensely personal, rooted in the dynamic interaction of leaders with quite different visions and values. Revisiting the old-fashioned idea that character matters, Founding Brothers informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.]]> 288 Joseph J. Ellis 0375705244 Josh 0 3.94 2000 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations]]> 3023509 Here readers will find the history-making quotes, from Churchill's stirring wartime speeches ("Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"), to Neville Chamberlain's infamous "Peace for our time," to Spiro T. Agnew's outrageous "If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all." On the lighter side, readers will enjoy such wits as Woody Allen ("It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens"), Fran Lebowitz ("Food is an important part of a balanced diet"), and Dorothy Parker ("This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force"). There are generous excerpts from literature, from the novels of Hemingway and Joyce, the poetry of Auden, Eliot, and Pound, the plays of Lillian Hellman and Anita Loos, and the lyrics of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter ("In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / Now, heaven knows, / Anything goes"). Augarde also includes famous book titles (such as Shepherd Mead's "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"), song titles (Larry Morey's "Whistle While You Work"), even cartoon captions (Bill Maudlin's wartime "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages"). And of course, the book brims with wisdom, from Count Ciano's "Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan," to Lord Morley's "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him," to Alfred Adler's "It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Designed both for reference and for browsing, the Dictionary arranges quotations in alphabetical order by author, with attributions after each quote so that readers can explore the original quotes in context. In addition, the index helps the reader trace quotations from their most important keywords, so that if you know the quote but not the author, you can still find it easily.
Whether you want to find out who first used the expression "a walk on the wild side" (it was Nelson Algren) or simply enjoy discovering fine turns of phrase or witty remarks (such as Beatrice Lillie's off-the-cuff comment to a waiter who spilled soup on her dress: "Never darken my Dior again"), The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations offers a unique view of the twentieth century through some of its most memorable lines.]]> 382 Tony Augarde 019866141X Josh 0 to-read 3.50 1991 The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
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]]> <![CDATA[Twelve Challenges Churches Face]]> 2620718 192 Mark Dever 1581349440 Josh 0 3.84 2008 Twelve Challenges Churches Face
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]]> Christ and Culture Revisited 2246261 in the world, but not to be of it, Christians must maintain a balancing act that becomes more precarious the further our culture departs from its Judeo-Christian roots. How should members of the church interact with such a culture, especially as deeply enmeshed as most of us have become? D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to this problem. He begins by exploring the classic typology of H. Richard Niebuhr with its five Christ-culture options. Carson proposes that these disparate options are in reality one still larger vision. Using the Bible's own story line and the categories of biblical theology, he clearly lays out that unifying vision. Carson acknowledges the helpfulness of Niebuhr's grid and similar matrices but warns against giving them canonical force. More than just theoretical,Christ and Culture Revisitedis also designed practically to help Christians untangle current messy debates on living in the world. Carson emphasizes that the relation between Christ and culture is not limited to an either/or cultural paradigm -- Christagainstculture or Christtransformingculture. Instead Carson offers his own paradigm in whichallthe categories of biblical theology must be kept in mind simultaneously to inform the Christian worldview. While many other books on culture interact with Niebuhr, none of them takes anything like the biblical-theological approach adopted here. Groundbreaking and challenging,Christ and Culture Revisitedis a tour de force.]]> 256 D.A. Carson 0802831745 Josh 0 to-read 3.72 2008 Christ and Culture Revisited
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]]> The Intolerance of Tolerance 6696240
Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have come to understand tolerance over recent years -- from defending the rights of those who hold different beliefs to affirming all beliefs as equally valid and correct. He looks back at the history of this shift and discusses its implications for culture today, especially its bearing on democracy, discussions about good and evil, and Christian truth claims.

Using real-life examples that will sometimes arouse laughter and sometimes make the blood boil, Carson argues not only that the "new tolerance" is socially dangerous and intellectually debilitating but also that it actually leads to genuine intolerance of all who struggle to hold fast to their beliefs.]]> 196 D.A. Carson 0802831702 Josh 0 to-read 4.17 2009 The Intolerance of Tolerance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music (Volume 40) (Monastic Wisdom Series)]]> 19301155 160 Elisabeth-Paule Labat 0879070609 Josh 0 to-read 3.79 2014 The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music (Volume 40) (Monastic Wisdom Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism]]> 1858013 Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, is a prequel to The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.

The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts?

Although a vocal minority continues to attack the Christian faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives: 86 percent of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and 75 percent of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced “doubts� skeptics bring to his Manhattan church. And in The Reason for God, he single-handedly dismantles each of them. Written with atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an intelligent platform on which true believers can stand their ground when bombarded by the backlash. The Reason for God challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity.

Why is there suffering in the world? How could a loving God send people to Hell? Why isn’t Christianity more inclusive? Shouldn’t the Christian God be a god of love? How can one religion be “right� and the rest “wrong�? Why have so many wars been fought in the name of God? These are just a few of the questions even ardent believers wrestle with today. In this book, Tim Keller uses literature, philosophy, real-life conversations and reasoning, and even pop culture to explain how faith in a Christian God is a soundly rational belief, held by thoughtful people of intellectual integrity with a deep compassion for those who truly want to know the truth.]]> 293 Timothy J. Keller 0525950494 Josh 0 to-read 4.22 2008 The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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]]> <![CDATA[Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters]]> 6403690 The New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Songs of Jesus and a nationally renowned minister, Timothy Keller exposes the error of making good things “ultimate� in this book, and shows readers a new path toward a hope that lasts.

Success, true love, and the life you’ve always wanted. Many of us placed our faith in these things, believing they held the key to happiness, but with a sneaking suspicion they might not deliver. The recent economic meltdown has cast a harsh new light on these pursuits. In a matter of months, fortunes, marriages, careers, and a secure retirement have disappeared for millions of people. No wonder so many of us feel lost, alone, disenchanted, and resentful. But the truth is that we made lesser gods of these good things—gods that can’t give us what we really need. There is only one God who can wholly satisfy our cravings—and now is the perfect time to meet him again, or for the first time.

The Bible tells us that the human heart is an “idol-factory,� taking good things and making them into idols that drive us. In Counterfeit Gods, Keller applies his trademark approach to show us how a proper understanding of the Bible reveals the unvarnished truth about societal ideals and our own hearts. This powerful message will cement Keller’s reputation as a critical thinker and pastor, and comes at a crucial time—for both the faithful and the skeptical.]]> 240 Timothy J. Keller 0525951369 Josh 0 to-read 4.33 2009 Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
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]]> <![CDATA[In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement]]> 2557341 An important anthology that reaffirms the classic doctrine of substitutionary atonement and counters the ongoing attacks against it.

If ever there was a time and a need for an enthusiastic reaffirmation of the biblical doctrine of substitutionary atonement, it is now. With this foundational tenet under widespread attack, J. I. Packer and Mark Dever’s anthology plays an important role, issuing a clarion call to readers to stand firm in the truth.

In My Place Condemned He Stood combines three classic articles by Packer—“The Heart of the Gospelâ�; his Tyndale Biblical Theology Lecture, “What Did the Cross Achieveâ�; and his introductory essay to John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ—with Dever’s recent article, “Nothing but the Blood.â� It also features a foreword by the four principals of Together for the Gospel: Dever, Ligon Duncan, C. J. Mahaney, and Al Mohler. Thoughtful readers looking for a compact classic on this increasingly controversial doctrine need look no farther than this penetrating volume.

“Here is vintage J. I. Packer accompanied by some younger friends. The magisterial but too-little-known essay ‘What Did the Cross Achieve?� is itself worth the price of the whole book. And there is much more besides. Here, then, are gospel riches, and In My Place Condemned He Stood marks the spot where the buried treasure lies. Start digging!â�
Sinclair B. Ferguson, Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

“The essays in this volume by Packer and Dever are some of the most important things I have ever read. If you want to preach in such a way that results in real conversions and changed lives, you should master the approach to the cross laid out in this book.â�
Tim Keller, Senior Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City

“This book contains some of the finest essays that have ever been written on the death of Christ.â�
David F. Wells, Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

“Every student and pastor should own this volume, for the contents are so precious that they deserve more than one reading.â�
Thomas R. Schreiner, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“Writing with the precision of learned theologians and the passion of forgiven sinners, J. I. Packer and Mark Dever explain the meaning of atonement, substitution, and propitiation—not just as words, but as saving benefits we can only receive from a crucified Savior.â�
Philip Graham Ryken, Senior Minister, Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia

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� Becoming so angry you have trouble thinking?
� Acting impulsively during angry outbursts?
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If these strong, sudden bursts of anger sound all too familiar, you know the impact they have over your life. Over time, these responses can actually hard-wire our brains to respond angrily in situations that normally wouldn’t cause us to lose our cool. These anger pathways in the brain can eventually disrupt your work, strain your relationships, and even damage your health.

Written by anger management expert Ronald Potter-Efron, Healing the Angry Brain can help you short-circuit the anger cycle and learn to calmly handle even the most stressful interactions. You will learn which areas of your brain are causing your reactions and discover how to take control of your emotions by rewiring your brain for greater patience and perspective. This fascinating, scientific approach to anger management will yield long-term results, helping you develop greater empathy and put effective conflict resolution skills into practice for years to come.]]> 172 Ronald T. Potter-Efron 1608821331 Josh 2 3.72 2012 Healing the Angry Brain: How Understanding the Way Your Brain Works Can Help You Control Anger and Aggression
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