Recommended Reading
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The Great Assumption
If you’re looking to write a book on one of the toughest possible topics, you can’t find one much tougher than the often discussed and debated question: How can God be good, loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing since evil and suffering exist? In a book that’s remarkable for its readability and clarity but also its scholarship Continue reading
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Stuff
Stuff: We’re almost halfway through the series “Revealed” at CrossWay. It’s going well, but I wish I had another two or three months to prepare for it! Guess I’ll always feel that way. Sermons are like paintings–it’s hard to reach a point where I can say, “It’s finished.” Laura Marie is eating “solid” food! Doesn’t Continue reading
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My New Favorite Paragraph
I have a new favorite paragraph. It’s from page 115 of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The narrator is an old dying country preacher writing about dancing the waltz alone in his study: “I plan to do all my waltzing here in the study. I have thought I might have a book ready at hand to Continue reading
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Top 10 Cool Things I Did Last Week
Here’s the official list of the Top 10 Cool Things I Did Last Week: (10) Continued reading a book I borrowed from my dad. It’s called Gilead and is written by Marilynne Robinson. (9) Went to La Tolteca in Salisbury for lunch with Carolyn and her family. (8) Downloaded the Dropkick Murphys version of “Amazing Continue reading
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Obama & Abortion
This afternoon I came across a frightening article about the man who just might be our next president. Read it here. Extremists in any direction tend to be scary, but someone who’s enthusiastic about abortion just wigs me out. Continue reading
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The Glory of Their Times
Last year I was in Cooperstown, New York with my dad and two brothers. My younger brother, Dylan, suggested I read The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter. He said it was the best baseball book he’d ever read. It took me awhile to get to it, but I finally finished reading it Continue reading
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The Hobbit
Until recently I had never read anything by J.R.R. Tolkien. So finally, at long last, I read The Hobbit. Coming into it, I had no idea what to expect. That’s a good thing, because it was very different from anything I’d ever read before. Definitely a good book. It seems to fit into a weird Continue reading
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Lousy Day in Dallas
Wow, total meltdown in Dallas. You can read about it here. In a game that didn’t have any highlights for the Cowboys, there are two good things to be salvaged from their 10-6 loss to Philadelphia: First, the Eagles exposed some major weaknesses and limitations on the Cowboys, but they’re problems that can be fixed–and Continue reading
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Review of “Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be”
The other day I finished reading Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be by John D. Roth. It’s one of the best church books I’ve ever read–it definitely deserves re-reading. In order to avoid the common mistake of telling the Anabaptist story by starting in the sixteenth century, Roth opens up by relating the story of Continue reading
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Darren’s Thoughts On Andy’s Book
Darren Plummer, a church planter in College Park, recently reviewed the latest book by Andy Stanley, still hot off the press. I haven’t read it yet and I know you’re all anxious for a review of it, since Stanley is the best preacher and best writer of books about ministry, so I figured I’d point Continue reading
Surfing the Inner N8 