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Comments on Why We Love The Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organised Religion

 Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck have brought out another book, this time tackling critics of institutional church. I really enjoyed their book on the emergent church and I gave it a mostly favourable review.
I finished their second book in a matter of days and I enjoyed a lot of what was written. I agree with [...]

Currently Reading…

The Gospel-driven Church: Retrieving Classical Ministries for Contemporary Revivalism Ian Stackhouse.
The Sovereignty of God A.W Pink
Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists Collin Hansen

Personal Update

Update
With things being really busy just now I have not been blogging as much as I would have liked. I’ve been busy with placement two of my teacher training course. Regarding the course, so far so good. Placements have gone well, I am enjoying most of the lectures and the things I am learning at [...]

Removal of Frank Viola book reviews and endorsements.

I’ve recently removed a couple of book reviews which I had written on Frank Viola’s book Pagan Christianity?.

 Here are the reasons why.
1) Frank Viola and Barna raise some interesting issues and important questions but ultimately my reviews were not critical enough. My reviews were almost a 100% endorsement with no crtitical analysis. This is my [...]

Books I’ll be reading in 2009

I’m usually always reading something. Hopefully this year will be no different. However two books I desire to work through systematically within the year is the MacArthur daily bible (Christmas present from my wife Laura) and John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian religion.

The bible is my primary objective, as good as some books are, there is [...]


    "The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to take hold of it perfectly and to believe it with all our heart."
    Martin Luther