This accessible booklet came out at the end of last month:
Jim Newcomer. Help! I Can’t Forgive. Living in a Fallen World. Leominster, England: Day One, 2012.
It’s 64 pages, but its dimensions are only 5.6 x 4 inches. (Many paperbacks are about 8 x 5 inches.)
Newcomer unpacks and applies Matthew 18.
There’s almost always at least one person who is more gifted than you are at something.
Would you believe that this happens in seminary—where people are taking classes about the Bible and theology?
It does. [Read more…] about Thank God for Gifted Professors and Students
Yesterday I watched the premiere of the latest Dispatches from the Front film by Frontline Missions:
Episode 5: Father, Give Me Bread
It’s on Ethiopia and South Sudan, and it’s excellent.
Here’s a preview:
See my post on Episodes 1–4. [Read more…] about A New Dispatches from the Front Film
I recently read three short books by Douglas Wilson on the family after some friends recommended them for their insights on parenting:
I’ve read only a handful of Wilson’s other books (including a pithy one on writing but none of his controversial writings on federal vision or slavery), and I’ve subscribed to his “Blog & Mablog” for years.
My wife just finished carefully reading Wilson’s The Case for Classical Christian Education (Wheaton: Crossway, 2003). We agree with each other that reading Wilson often evokes one of three responses: [Read more…] about Douglas Wilson on Parenting
Several months ago I learned about audio resources for children from “Your Story Hour.”
I can’t speak for their other products yet, but we’ve enjoyed listening to “The Bible Comes Alive Series,” 120 dramatized Bible stories for kids (2.1 days worth of audio):
About the stories: [Read more…] about Dramatized Bible Stories for Kids
This book has a clever cover and title:
Carl R. Trueman. Fools Rush in Where Monkeys Fear to Tread: Taking Aim at Everyone. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2011. 241 pp.
Kevin DeYoung’s endorsement says it well: [Read more…] about A New Collection of Carl Trueman Essays
Four helps for learning from Jesus’ rhetoric:
1. Joe Carter and John Coleman. How to Argue Like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History’s Greatest Communicator. Wheaton: Crossway, 2009.
Then the word of the LORD Almighty came to me: “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?’” (Zech 7:4–6)
John Calvin, Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets (translated by John Owen), 5:172–73 (formatting added):
God reproved the Jews, who had returned to their own country, for ingratitude, as they had already begun to pollute themselves.
He therefore brings this charge against them, [Read more…] about Motive
