April 2010
9 posts
Snake Oil
US Military warns of bad times a coming:
“By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day” […] “While it is difficult to predict precisely what economic, political, and strategic effects such a shortfall might produce, it surely would reduce the prospects for...
Wheat & Tares
Matthew 13:24 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master,...
“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have...”
– Jeremiah 29:4-7
Environmental Stewardship vs Environmentalism →
Nice little snippet here. I am looking forward to learning and writing more about this topic in the coming months.
How Tim Challies reads a book →
“We must keep in view his word and leave alone his inscrutable will; for it is by...”
– John Calvin
The Everlasting Man
I set out to read “The Everlasting Man” after skimming a reading list of books that C.S. Lewis considered to influence him the most. The Everlasting Man topped his list, and apparently prompted his conversion from atheism. As C.S. Lewis has been one of my favorite authors for most of my life, I had some high expectations to say the least. G.K. Chesterton wrote The Everlasting Man with...
Diverse reading for the love of Christ.
In the past couple of years, I have been attempting to remove some denominational-bigotry in my life by purposefully reading theological (not necessarily in the “scholarly” sense) books by Christian authors from very different backgrounds with very different beliefs. Coming from a staunch Assemblies of God/Pentecostal upbringing, I was more or less taught to never trust anyone who is...
Welcome!
This will start off as a book review blog. As I relearn the skills of writing something of value (and not just the randomness that I’m used to spewing out via facebook/twitter), I figured reviewing books would be a good way to get the content flowing. I will attempt to review most of the books that I read here, which are varied in topic including financial, dietary, historical, fiction,...