New Book-to-Buy: Does Your Ambition Need to be Rescued?

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Rescued?  From what?  From whom is the question you are really needing to answer, with the reference being rather rhetorical!
Unlike those un-named individuals from Dave Harvey’s work space [all will be read-vealed], I will generally always read the Introduction of a new title, as it is can be a portent of things to come.  AnIntroduction can be like [...]

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Now On-Line: CATALYST Christian Bookstore

Monday, March 8th, 2010

An exciting new development in a New Zealand context, which has world-wide implications, has very recently (yesterday) and officially launched!
I could rabbit on about the details, but here is the news from the source… a Press Release…
New online Christian bookstore
In February the Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship launched ‘Catalyst Books’: an online bookstore stocking high quality books [...]

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10 Tips to Read More and Read Better

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

This post has been reverberating around the blogosphere from Mr Challies for some time, but as it is helpful for the subject matter of this blog, and will be helpful for you as you seek to digest the subject matter of books without end, readeem the time, as you upload on some helpful hints to [...]

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Carson: The Changing Face of Evangelicalism

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As part of the annual Evangelical Theological Society get-together, where the geeks-go-wild, last November, in the now Super Bowl capital of the world, New Orleans… WHO DAT?…  in the year 2009… Okay, take a breath…1,2,3…
Anyway, as part of this event, Crossway Books sponsored a lecture, and at this event, the lecture was given by one Don… Dr. [...]

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Book to Buy: Doctrine – What Christians Should Believe

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The Mouth on Mars Hill… Seattle, USA, that is… Mark “MMA” Driscoll has recently announced to the faithful on Facebook that his latest edition (with Gerry Breshears) to meet the publishing press, is now available for pre-order, as it is about to meet the Press.
If you head to this page… HERE… you will find the information for [...]

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Some Thoughts on How to Read a Hard Book

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Do you only read the books that you can sufficiently grasp?  Now such is not an attempt at “oxymoronic” writing and reasoning, as who, after all, looks to spend hours reading a book that they have little idea about?!
Therefore, let me put it this way, if in the process of reading a given book, it [...]

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Some Advice on Reading Well

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Do you read well?
You can always read better!
If we are going to be reading people, who take the time to read regularly and voluminously, then we should all be mindful and motivated to read well, and as such, any resources to further foster growth in such areas, should be readeemed!
In a post titled, Stop cleaning the [...]

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Book to Buy: “What Is the Gospel?”

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Such is an important question to answer, particularly for self-styled Evangelicals who purportedly celebrate in the glorious reality of the always Good News!
To help you think through what this entails, which will help you to be enabled, there is an up-and-coming title that Man of Spin wanted to inform you about, which is marked for availability [...]

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Interview: Thomas Oden

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Here is an interview with an author and scholar, Thomas Oden!  I have cut and pasted the whole interview, as it looks like this is only up for a period of time… However, to pay one’s dues, it is sourced from HERE!  Enjoy!
Thomas Oden, editor of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
IVP: How did the idea [...]

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Book to Buy: “To Change the World”

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Readeeming the Time, the blog where the fervor and froth for a new book, reaches fever pitch!
Okay, that might be slightly over-selling things, but if I mark-it-to-maybe, it might be underselling this up and coming title.
Justin Taylor, a.k.a., the Source, has described it this way…

I suspect this will be one of the most important books published [...]

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