When someone says that something is hard, I am immediately intrigued. If they say it is painful, I am hooked. If they say, 90% of the people try it and fail, I am in. There might be something wrong with me, but I love a challenge.
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It is book 45 of 52 in the Tim Challies 2020 reading challenge, and I have chosen The Meateater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival by Steven Rinella, although I highly doubt that he actually wrote a word of the book. The book clearly reads like a ghostwriter and is arranged in the purest form of a publisher looking for profit.
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On November 22, 1963, three great men died. C. S. Lewis died of kidney failure, Aldous Huxley of cancer, and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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The evangelical church is thirsting for true discipleship. This is evident from not only the many sermons, lectures, articles, blogs, and social media posts written in the years following 2000, but also the conglomeration of recent publications surrounding discipleship. Clearly, evangelicals have recognized a need to go beyond mere emotional attractions to gain converts for Christ, but actually “teaching them to observe all that” Christ has commanded.
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Fredrick Nietzsche might be the most solitary and lonely man with the greatest renown in modern history. He will be baffling admirers and critics for the rest of our finite time on this earth.
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It is week 41 of 52 in the Tim Challies 2020 reaching challenge, and I decided on Ideas, Influence, and Income. The author, Tanya Hall, is the chief executive officer of Greenleaf Book Group, a publishing company founded in 1997 and representing over 1,200 active titles, including numerous New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers.
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Dick Cavett states, "Profound and thoroughly entertaining… This book has made me think in ways that I haven't in years." The main argument Eric makes is this. We, the people of the United States of America, have forgotten what is required of us.
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The Heart of a Father is a commonsense book. You will not find earth-shattering information between the covers. However, if you are a father, you will be deeply convicted and motivated to love not only your children but also your wife.
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Let’s face it. 2020 is a dumpster fire. Fifty years from now, history books will tell lessons learned from what the world has experienced this year that cannot yet be comprehended. Physical, psychological, social, and economic suffering has spread across the globe in a completely unpredictable manner. And while some have put their hopes in a vaccine, the undeniable reality is a microscopic virus has caused world superpowers, with their stupendous technologies and resources, to shut down.
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“There is no effectual response to our current situation except for the children of light to be who and what they were called to be by Christ their head” - A timely message from Dallas Willard’s Renovations of the Heart
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Dr. Bryan Litfin’s latest historical fiction The Conqueror fully entrenched my intellect and imagination. I felt as if I were the Germania Barbarian Rex himself, fighting for the Christian seeker would be Emperor Constantine.
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This is week 35 of 52 in the Tim Challies 2020 reading challenge, and my task was to read a book from a deceased author. I chose Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis as this was the first Christian book I ever remember reading on my own, apart from the bible.
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Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 25 million copies and been labeled the No. 1 most influential business book of the twentieth century.
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I remember the first Sunday morning in March when I sat down with my wife and three daughters and “went to church” in our living room. I remember thinking, “this is wrong.”
For the first time in the history of the United States of America, churches all closed their doors. Instead, congregations scrambled to utilize digital technology to conduct virtual worship services, that were foreign at first, and now the new normal. What will the post-quarantine or post-COVID American church look like?
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It is week 32 of 52 in the Tim Challies 2020 reading challenge, and this week I chose Joe Miller’s book Dog Walk Talk: While I’m Walking God is Talking.
If you Google “Joe Miller” you will read about a budding Sports commentator, an American attorney, an Alaskan war veteran Politian, and Joe of Joe’ restaurant in Venice. None of these Joes is Joe Miller, author of Dog Walk Talk.
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It is week 31 of 52 in the Tim Challies 2020 reading challenge, and my task this week was to read a book on joy. I chose my former professor, pre-marital counselor, and friend, Dr. Gerald Peterman’s book Joy and Tears: The Emotional Life of the Christian.
Gary Chapman, author of The 5 Love Languages says this about Dr. Peterman’s book, “At last, a book that sees emotions as a gift from God rather than a tool of Satan.”
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It is week 30 of 52 in the Tim Challies 2020 reading challenge, and this week's task was to read a book about food. I chose The Daniel Plan, written by Pastor Rick Warren, Dr. Daniel Amen, and Dr. Mark Hyman.
The book opens with Pastor Warren being convicted about his own physical health and that of Saddleback Church. While preaching on the Prophet Daniel, Pastor Warren decided to repent of his excessive eating and unhealthy lifestyle and to call the church to a challenge to pursue physical health.
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Have you ever asked, "What is the meaning of life?" We have been navigating this unprecedented pandemic, with over 20 million confirmed global cases and 765,000 deaths, for the past five months. Reality has sunk in that things will not be back to "normal" anytime soon. What is the meaning of life?
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It is week 28 of 52 in the Tim Challies 2020 reading challenge, and the task was to read a book with a person on the cover. James Kerr's Legacy has a picture of an All Black carrying the footie (ball) and so it meets the criteria! In this extremely readable book, Kerr identifies 15 lessons in leadership from the All Blacks legacy.
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Simon Sinek recognized that every organization and leader knows what they do, some know why they do it, but very few know why they do what they do.
When you think about success and what you are striving after, are you able to answer the question, why?
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