Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl: Tickets, Please.

This week on ze-blog, I’m blogging exerpts of N.D. Wilson’s Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl. In the chapter Tickets, Please he works through humanities never-ending search for the meaning of life and offers the reader the most delicious dishes of philosophy I’ve ever eaten before.  Wilson is no philosophy rookie, but is able to bring it way down [...]

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Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl: Welcome

This past week, Stephanie and I were on vacation, and being in midst of what is shaping up to be another chaotic semester at school,  I took this opportunity to read something non-school related.  N.D. Wilson’s Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl:Wide-eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World has been on my list for quite some time, so I [...]

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Winter reading and library fantasies.

Just by reading the title of this post, I’m reminded of how much of a nerd I am. Regardless, ’round about the time of mid-terms this book-lover starts to fantasize about what it would be like to read, unashamedly and without guilt, exactly what he wants to.  And by the time finals have grilled me [...]

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The List.

Recently I ran across an article by The Gospel Coalition’s Tim Challies entitled ’10 Million Words’. Challies has taken on a challenge to read every non-fiction New York Times best seller in 2010. Do the math. That equates to approximately 10 million words. Freakin’ awesome! So, with some spare time on my hands before beginning [...]

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Does your ministry have it?

Book Review time! I just finished the book IT from Craig Groeschel. The premise of the book is how churches and leaders can get IT and keep IT. So I pose the question – Do you or your church have IT? This has easily been one of the greatest books I’ve read on practical ministry [...]

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Provocative Title…Crucial Message

I just finished Andy Stanley’s book Choosing to Cheat. Super easy reads. For me it was one of those books that you start and then you drop off from reading it somewhere along the way, and pick it up six months later. As my wife reminded me this past weekend when I pulled it out [...]

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