What are you all reading and studying?
I'm reading:
1) "Spurgeon vs. Hyper Calvinism" by Iain H. Murray
2) "Exegetical Fallacies" by D.A. Carson
3) "In my Place Condemned He Stood" by J.I. Packer and Mark Dever
4) "Ministries of Mercy" by Tim Keller
I'm studying:
1) God
2) Community
3) Ways to make the church service I pastor bigger
4) How to correctly pack my pipe, I still haven't perfected it yet
5) The book of Ephesians
6) The book of Jude
Posted by: Jimmy
I'm working my way very slowly through Beale and Carson's Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Good stuff, but dense. I'm in Luke.
Also just finished wading through a SF compendium by M. John Harrison called Viriconium. Didn't like it much at all.
Posted by: Loren Eaton | May 23, 2008 at 07:36 PM
I've thought about buying Beale and Carson's book, would you recommend it?
Posted by: Jimmy | May 24, 2008 at 12:21 AM
I have had questions about the relationship between the Testaments for a long time, and the book has helped answer some of them for me. The commentary for each book is done by a different scholar and is therefore a little uneven. Craig Bloomberg's section on Matthew, though, is worth the price of admission. Before getting it, I would read Beale's The Right Doctrine From the Wrong Texts first; it's a good introduction to a lot of the issues.
Posted by: Loren Eaton | May 24, 2008 at 09:41 AM
I just finished Ravi Zacharius' "The End of Reason" which is a response to Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation." It was good & a quick read but I feel that I need to read it in one sitting to 'get' all that Ravi is saying.
Now I am on to "The Church Distributed" By Joel Hunter. It is Awesome...I will post on it soon....until then you can check it out at his church's site for free...
http://www.northlandchurch.net/church_distributed/index.html
Posted by: Just Matt | May 28, 2008 at 04:59 PM
Just skimmed "Wild at Heart" by John Eldredge and "Living Life on Purpose" by Claude Hickman. Going through "The Life You've Always Wanted" by John Ortberg. A bit self-helpish, but requied reading for my missions venture. Also sitting on my windowsill but yet unread: "A Tale of Three Kings" by Gene Edwards, "The Pursuit of Holiness" by Jerry Bridges, and "Six Dangerous Questions" by Paul Borthwick.
As for periodicals, reading America's First Freedom...in particular, an article about John McCain's stance on gun control as interviewed by the NRA.
Posted by: Vanessa | June 21, 2008 at 08:10 PM
I am a member of the NRA. Thanks Dad :(
Posted by: Vanessa | June 21, 2008 at 08:11 PM