Category: Book Reviews
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Lessons From a Very Monday Monday
“Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,”Philippians 2:14-15 ESV It would be easy to reflect on this day as one where nothing I wanted to…
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The Game Changer for My Prayer Life This Year
Lots of people are posting about their favorite books of 2022. I’ll share the one I’ve read 12 times this year. This is the Illuminated Scripture Journal of the book of Psalms. Between each page of biblical text, there is a blank page for note taking, journaling, and writing out prayers. You can order it…
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Book Review: Off to Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer
www.goodreads.com/review/show/5040160290
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Review of “The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11”
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff My rating: 4 of 5 stars Everyone in my generation has their story of where they were on 9/11. And it seems to be one of the rare topics of conversation that elicits both one’s undivided attention and a sense…
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Review of “Committed: Dispatches From a Psychiatrist in Training” by Adam Stern, MD
This was a quick, easy memoir about a young psychiatrist, detailing his four years of residency at Harvard-Longwood school of Psychiatry. Adam Stern details his relationships with his fellow, high achieving, insecure classmates, his love life, and, most interesting to me, his experiences with his first patients. It’s a little like Gray’s Anatomy, without the…
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Review of Romans, Chapter 1, by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
One down, thirteen to go! This is the main part of my reading goal for this year— to read through all 14 volumes of MLJ’s exposition of Romans. Pro tip: subscribe to the Martyn Lloyd-Jones podcast. The MLJ trust (www.mjjtrust.org) has converted all the audio recordings of his sermons to digital format. This basically allows…
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Review of “Putting it Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park With George” by James Lapine
I was a theater minor in college, and in one of my classes we watched the musical “Sunday in the Park With George,” about Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. I had never heard of the musical or the painting. The most I knew was that Mandy Patinkin…
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Review of “All The Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4502722513
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Review of Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune by Frank Herbert My rating: 4 of 5 stars Follow my 2022 reading journey. I’ll try to write a review of what I’m reading throughout the year. Dune is slow going at first, but richly rewarding if you stay with it. A blurb on the back of the edition I read commented that the…
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Reflections on “Holy Justice” (from RC Sproul’s “The Holiness of God”)
I discovered R.C. Sproul fairly recently– last year I read Chosen by God as the first book I had read by him, and I felt like I was reading an American CS Lewis. This week, thanks to my friend Mark Knight trying to consolidate his library, I started reading Sproul’s The Holiness of God. And it is…
