(for the rationale, see the note at the bottom)
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Last week, for Acts: “…to the end of the earth.” (Sunday School), I read from the following book(s) and came across these insights:
For study in 2 Peter (current sermon series), I read from the following book(s) and came across these insights:
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General reading for work as a pastor:
- The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols
- finished it
- Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philisophical, and Theological Critique by J. P. Moreland, Stephen Meyer, Christopher Shaw, Ann K. Gauger, and Wayne Grudem (editors/contributors)
- pp. 1-83, 84-110
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***“… Darwin’s problem has not been alleviated…”
A paleontologist writing in 1979 (cited in a footnote in this book) said, “…some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record…have had to be discarded… – what appeared to be a nice simple progression…now appears to be much more complex and much less gradualistic. So Darwin’s problem has not been alleviated in the last 120 years.”
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- pp. 1-83, 84-110
- To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain by Matt Chandler, with Jared Wilson
- pp. 1-74
- All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927 by C.S. Lewis
- pp. 1-105
- finished this one this week
- Here’s a brief review:
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“All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis 1922-1927” by C.S. Lewis Tedious throughout with the minutiae of his daily studies, there is – nevertheless – enough jewels to make it worth the read. This is especially true of the written portraits of colleagues from Oxford, in an appendix at the end.
This was the first time I’ve ever read anything of Lewis when he was still an atheist. It shows. His apathy and selfishness battle against each other and it becomes clear why he was a bachelor for so long.
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- Exploring Grace Together: 40 Devotionals for the Family by Jessica Thompson
- Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land by Scott Freeman and Susan Leopold Freeman
- finished it
- The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by Max Boot
- started the audiobook (checked out from the library) on 3/23
- just three discs into the 23-disc set there’s already a handful of really useful illustrations for future sermons
- additionally, it’s an interesting story about someone who for decades has been cast in a too-harsh-negative light – especially considering his ideas are now the foundation of counter-insurgency strategies
***denotes future article forthcoming
RATIONALE:
- Gonna’ try to start keeping an online record of my reading for work. This will: 1) show others the types of things they could be reading, too; 2) will help me keep a searchable record of the topics I read about, and 3) help me start generating article ideas. I need to become a better writer. In the past, when inspiration has hit (to write more frequently) I often don’t have more than one idea at a time. This will help me keep a long list of things I need to write about. Lastly, the frequency of questions from people (in the church) has increased in the last year and this approach will help me collect my thoughts in one place.
