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Considering Humility: The Joy of Self-forgetfulness
Union has a Growing Gospel Integrity series edited by Michael Reeves. The first in the series, but not the first I read, is Humility: The Joy of Self-forgetfulness by Gavin Ortlund. The volumes in...
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Considering The Difference Jesus Makes
This summer I was tasked with reducing the book collection at my in-laws. I was getting rid of really bad books (fire pit), and pulling doubles or triples. Things tend to accumulate. Perhaps they are...
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Considering the Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse
It took me longer than expected to finish The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority within the Church by David Johnson and Jeff...
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Considering the Discipline of Spiritual Discernment
Sometimes you are just a little late to the game. A local ministry to pastors sponsored days of silence and solitude. Often there would be give-away books for us. Recently The Discipline of Spiritual...
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Considering Teach Me to Feel: Anxious
No one likes to feel anxious, I think. Yet it is a very common experience. In the next chapter of Teach Me to Feel, Courtney Reissig brings us to Psalm 13. And she utilizes the CSB this time. 2 How...
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Considering The Pastor’s Justification Redux
I first read The Pastor’s Justification by Jared Wilson back in 2013 which seems like a lifetime ago ministry-wise. In my review I likened it the good cop to Paul Tripp’s bad cop in Dangerous Calling....
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Considering the Ebb and Flow of Ministry
In my cover letter I note that due to the longer tenure of my pastoral positions, I have experienced the ebb and flow of ministry. This, I think, is an advantage. Like it or not there are ebbs and...
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Considering God in a Brothel
There are a number of uncomfortable subjects we don’t like to think about. One is human sex trafficking. Brothels have been mythologized, made to appear nearly dignified. Go to Rome and see the...
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Considering The Grace of Repentance
I first read The Grace of Repentance by Sinclair Ferguson in the winter of 2012. As I was packing up my library and setting a few things aside to read in the short term, it was one of the books I...
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Considering Toy Story 5
It has been a long time since I’ve posted about a movie. But I thought Toy Story 5 was worth it. Yesterday I watched Toy Story 4. I thought perhaps I hadn’t watched it before. While watching it I...
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Considering Teach Me to Feel: Ashamed
Punctuation matters. This isn’t teach me to feel ashamed. Too many of us have been taught that, though we haven’t been able to put words to it. Courtney Reissig wants us to be able to put words to it....
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Considering the PCA Report on Christian Nationalism
Last year the GA approved the formation of an ad interim study committee on Christian Nationalism to help the denomination respond to the growth of various kinds of Christian Nationalism. The partial...
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Considering Teach Me to Feel: Envy
“Envy rots the bones.” I read that in the Living Bible decades ago and it stuck with me. Short and to the point. Envy is where Courtney Reissig goes next in Teach Me to Feel. It feels like it has been...
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Considering A Lifting Up for the Downcast
I honestly have no idea how long it took me to read this book. I started and stopped. Started and stopped again. And on it went. Yes, I have old cover. This should not be taken as an indictment...
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Considering the Proposed Directory for Worship
A PCA ad interim committee has prepared a revised Directory for Worship for the PCA. This is important because the desire to to make the complete Directory for Worship constitutionally binding. At...
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Considering After Church Hurt
Timothy St. John is a pastor of counseling. One of the things he addresses all too often is church hurt. After Church Hurt is a result of those many sessions and damaged souls. This is a book about...
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Considering A Well-Trained Wife
I saw the book on the counter in our kitchen. CavWife had borrowed it from the library. “Hmm, A Well-Trained Wife must be fiction” I joked to myself. You know, like Taming of the Shrew, something like...
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Considering Empathy and Moral Proximity
I listened to this interview of David French (hero to some of my friends) by Allie Beth Stuckey. They talked about his response to her book Toxic Empathy and empathy in a wider sense. She is a good...
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Considering Jonah: God’s Holy Runaway
Jonah: God’s Holy Runaway by Timothy Mulder (also available on Amazon) is a Bible study designed for individuals and small groups. I used it as an individual. Timothy is a ruling elder in the PCA....
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Considering A Guide to Christian Living Redux
I suppose this is the third time I’ve read the newer edition of John Calvin’s A Guide to Christian Living. I read Robert White’s translation of The Institutes of the Christian Religion when it came...
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