Morning thoughts on “The Weight of Glory”

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant …

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Repost: Review – LadyLike

In a culture neck-deep in feminism and a church slowly embracing that culture, LadyLike was a breath of fresh air and a slap in the face. I mean this with all sincerity and thanks. Curtis and Adle, in a series of succinct essays, address seemingly every issue facing women today and approach them from a biblical point …

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Recent Read – Keller’s “The Reason for God”

I recently finished the book The Reason for God by Timothy Keller. Overall, I really enjoyed it as a piece of literature. It was engaging, thought-provoking, and convicting. I think to fully digest everything he said and have it ready for recall I will need to read it again. Most often I was tending to …

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Repost: Review – Church History in Plain Language

It was always my goal in college to read books in their entirety. Truth be told, I love reading. But it may be truer still to say that I love to read what I love to read. That being said, I often skipped or substituted books in high school. I got through the first page …

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Repost: Review – The Angels’ Portion

As the author mused at the beginning of the book, The Angel’s Portion is not the book most would expect from a pastor, let alone a Lutheran one. For one, it has very little to do with “churchy things.” For another, it is about Scotch, not beer, so it may offend the German Lutheran. But if you …

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