That’s a question Christianity Today asked three people to answer.
Dave Croteau
- summarizes and evaluates the CT article and then
- answers the question himself.
I agree with Dave. And it’s not the first time.
by Andy Naselli
That’s a question Christianity Today asked three people to answer.
Dave Croteau
I agree with Dave. And it’s not the first time.
by Andy Naselli
Jenni and I recently read this book:
C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis Letters to Children.
Edited by Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie Lamp Mead. New York: Macmillan, 1985. 120 pp.
Tim and Kathy Keller mention it in The Meaning of Marriage:
As a girl of twelve, Kathy wrote to C. S. Lewis and received answers from him, which she taped to the inside covers of her copies of the Narnia Chronicles. His four letters to her (to “Kathy Kristy”) can be found in his Letters to Children and the third volume of Letters of C. S. Lewis. (p. 245, note 2)
C. S. Lewis wrote his third and fourth letters to Kathy less than a month before he died.
Lewis’s letters are fun and instructive to read. They are filled with his typical wit, and Lewis models how adults should treat children with respect.
11 excerpts: [Read more…] about C. S. Lewis Letters to Children
by Andy Naselli
Last week Tim Keller asked “Why Catechesis Now?”
This morning TGC introduced the New City Catechism, adapted by Tim Keller and Sam Shammas from Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York.
TGC explains that catechisms have at least three purposes:
The New City Catechism adapts three other catechisms:
More:
(From #3 in “Bible Memory for Young Children“)
A mother and her children sing Bible verses and Q&A taken from a digest of the Westminster Shorter Catechism (Stephen Hildebrandt’s The Catechism for Young People). Some are more catchy than others (e.g., “How can you glorify God,” sample 3 here).
by Andy Naselli
This impeccably researched book is scheduled to release on October 23:
Murray J. Harris. Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament: An Essential Reference Resource for Exegesis. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012.
Harris presently resides in New Zealand and is professor emeritus of New Testament exegesis and theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Previously he was Warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge.
I’ve profited significantly from his written works, especially these four books:
Unfortunately, he wasn’t at Trinity when I was a student there (2006–2010). But I’ve recently enjoyed working with him on a forthcoming project (more on that later), and I’ve heard Don Carson tell some fascinating stories about him. [Read more…] about Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament
by Andy Naselli
This wise practical advice from C. J. Mahaney served me well:
It’s the final message from a one-day conference that occurred on August 23, 2012 at Southern Seminary: “Strengthening Your Marriage in Ministry.”
CJ’s message is so helpful that I’ve listened to it three times and watched it once with my wife.
Here are some notes I took: [Read more…] about 3 Ways to Nourish and Cherish Your Wife: Practical Advice C. J. Mahaney Would Give You If He Met with You at Starbucks
by Andy Naselli
Thabiti M. Anyabwile, The Life of God in the Soul of the Church: The Root and Fruit of Spiritual Fellowship (9Marks; Fearn, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2012), 239–41:
When I first arrived at First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands), I found a gentle, humble, eager-to-be-taught congregation of saints. From our arrival, greeted by a couple of dozen members of the congregation, my family and I have received nothing but warmth and love from the church.
However, a few weeks into our service here, we noticed a couple of things that struck us as odd. First, everyone we invited to our home for Sunday dinner turned us down. They were polite, and perhaps a little embarrassed. But everyone we welcomed to our home met us with the same reply. ‘Thanks for the invitation. But we already have plans.’ [Read more…] about The Joy of Spiritual Fellowship
by Andy Naselli
Chapter 7 of this book lists “Twelve Maxims of Symphonic Theology” (pp. 69–91):
Vern Sheridan Poythress. Symphonic Theology: The Validity of Multiple Perspectives in Theology.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987.
by Andy Naselli
Our family loves John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed four book versions of it, and we’ve added a fifth:
John Bunyan. The Pilgrim’s Progress. Edited by Lee Tung and Johnny Wong. Illustrated by Creator Art Studio. 2 vols. Leesburg, FL: Kingstone Comics, 2011. 304 pp. [volume 1 | volume 2]
The story changes several characters from boys to girls (e.g., Help is a leggy fairy, and Hopeful is a petite young lady!), but it hits the highlights and follows Bunyan’s basic storyline. (Some of the illustrations of women seem to cross the line by being too revealing, especially for a children’s book.) [Read more…] about The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Graphic Novel