Review: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings from That Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings from That Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks by Charles H. Spurgeon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really good. This was a book of quotations from the Puritan Thomas Brooks, selected by Charles Spurgeon. That’s a good business, right there. View …
Review: What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? by Kevin DeYoung My rating: 4 of 5 stars Listened to this book on audio. Very careful, very thoughtful, DeYoung does a masterful job walking through the Bible’s teaching on the subject of homosexuality. Really well done. If I had to muster a complaint, it would be …
Review: Works of Alexander Pope
Works of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope My rating: 4 of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyed this. I didn’t know enough of the immediate context of these poems to track with the big picture, but many of Pope’s lines are simply magnificent. View all my reviews
Review: Building a Timeless House in an Instant Age
Building a Timeless House in an Instant Age by Brent Hull My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed this book very much, and learned quite a bit from it. I had previously read The Old Way of Seeing, which was similar, and am fascinated at what makes so many modern residential homes so mud …
Great Point. Good to Think About.
Review: My Ántonia
My Ántonia by Willa Cather My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this once before, a long time ago, and only remembered enough to remember that I had read it. But then I was given an audio version of it for my birthday last month, and have been listening to it in my truck. …
Review: Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage
Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage by Ed Wheat My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this many years ago, and have been giving it away in my pre-marital counseling, also for many years. I recently decided I ought to read it again, and was pleased to see that …
Review: The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions by Arthur Bennett My rating: 3 of 5 stars Good. First read it in 2002. Listened to an audio version of it narrated by Max McLean in 2015. That was good too. McLean’s reading is good, although it sometimes borders on creepy. The Puritans …
Book of the Month/July 2015
This is an important book for a number of reasons. The first is the timing — and it is almost as though a higher power were at work. In this book, Charles Jackson gives a fresh historical overview of the work of Alexander Henderson, one of the stalwarts among the Scottish Covenanters. There was a …