Love and Status
I’m enjoying how quotable Alain de Botton’s ‘Status Anxiety‘ is on the subject of Love. I guess if you like he’s a modern philosopher, whatever you call him, he does seem to place his finger on and explain human experience and some of the thoughts and feelings behind it. “To be shown love is to ...
The Model Church
Recently we’ve been studying 1 Thessalonians, I was able to look a 2:1-16… seeing something of Paul’s model ministry, and the model church which the Thessalonians had become. Below are a few quotes that I found helpful… particularly helpful was a book called Body Beautiful by Melvin Tinker and Nathan Buttery, seeking to recover a ...
Little Black Books
I threw away my little black book when I got married… but then the Good Book Company sent me another one! That’s a joke, I never had one… but the second point is true. I’ve just read through two of these ‘Little Black Books‘, one on the Bible and one on Suffering and Evil. They’re ...
The Archer and the Arrow
The Archer and the Arrow is the second book in a series, following up from The Trellis and the Vine, produced by Mathias Media and authored by Philip Jensen and Paul Grimmond. In a nutshell it’s a book about the Word of God (the Bible) and how to preach it. The basic premise comes from ...
Honeymoon Reading
While on Honeymoon I committed to reading two books, it was a slow start, but as I got into reading more, I found myself able to relax more… don’t know if there is a connection… So I started off with John Piper’s ‘A Sweet and Bitter Providence‘… “sex, race and the sovereignty of God in ...