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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
I started reading Paul Tripp's book Instruments In The Redeemer's Hands yesterday. Its subtitle is, "people in need of chnage helping people in need of change" - basically an attempt to explain to the layperson how to counsel people, and why they should.
The sticker on the back puts it in ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
I just finished reading D. A. Carson's biography of his father, Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor. It's very good. If you are or think you might become a pastor, church planter, missionary, or husband, you should read it.
Tom Carson planted churches in French-speaking Canada, a Roman Catholic stronghold. His son ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
(see my first post on the ESV Study Bible here)
I got my copy of the ESV Study Bible Gospel of Luke today. Crossway sent a bunch over to DG, so we all got copies. BBC Bookstore also has a handful out on display.
This thing is really pretty amazing. I now ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
For about the last year, I've been pushing the English Standard Version of the Bible pretty hard. See here how the ESV is different from the other translations. A snippet:
There are two main kinds of Bible translations. The first is commonly referred to as (1) “word-for-word” (or “formal equivalence”) translation, ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
So I've deviated a bit from my published plan from a few weeks ago. I'm halfway through God Is The Gospel, but it's a slow read, so I've begun reading C. J. Mahaney's Living The Cross Centered Life.
This could become one of my favorite books, I think.
I'll post much more ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
So I just finished reading book 1, Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart by John Ensor. Yes, that's a Google Book Search link - a surprising number of pages for a copyrighted book are online, and it will give you links to websites you can buy it from.
A ...
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