I Guess You're Not As Old I Thought

Sorry Steve. I assumed you were getting to the point where you forgot things like that, and I didn't want to give your old body a shock or anything by springing that on you. I know how sensitive you can be.....

Happy Birthday Bro.

Are at the point yet where you can awe us with your wisdom?

What!?! No Senior Day?

Kevin... No Senior Day? I am so hurt!

I also remembered a couple war books that I nave reread numerous times ( although I have trouble with the rembering the authors:

The Man Without a Name - classic spy stuff!

Citizen Soldiers; Stephen Ambrose -one of the best WWII portrayals of the United States' military strength!

The Big E - phenomenal history of the aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise!

Several books on the taking of Iwo Jima including James Bradley's Flags of our Fathers.

I am hurrying off to work so I need to leave my list off here....

Kevin you owe me a nice rendition of Happy Birthday!

A Plethora Of Postings!

Wow, who knew that it would only take the opportunity to talk about books to get us so fired up?

Military Books? Hmmm....

off the top of my head, the ones I can think of are

Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers by Stepehen Ambrose. (By the way, I just got Undaunted Courage, the biography of Lewis and Clark by Ambrose. I'm so excited)

Skunk Works by Whoever wrote that particular book.

I know there are a lot more than those three but I would have to go into the next room and look at them to write them down. Sorry.


BUT....

Here is what I am reading right now, today in fact.

Seeing With New Eyes by David Powlison; this is a really good book on counseling biblically.

The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300) by Jaroslav Pelikan; I'm taking a class on Medieval Theology, which is really good.

Evangelism and The Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer; Love this book. Packer has to be one of my favorite writers.

A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham edited by Eugene Fairweather; This is a book full of the writings of Medieval Theologians. Some heavy stuff, some really good stuff, and some pretty bad stuff too.

Aquinas On Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica edited by A.M. Fairweather. It's Thomas Aquinas, need I say more?

A Call to Spiritual Reformation by D.A. Carson. Carson is probably my favorite theologian to read right now, and this book is so great. What is most important in the Christian life today? Homosexuality? Abortion? Evolution? The War? No. A relationship with God. whew!

Spiritual Disciplines by Don Whitney; good stuff!

Those are all the books I have to read right now for school. Maybe sometime I'll write a post on what I think about schools making you read more than you could ever process in a three month period, but...

Also, every night before I go to bed, I read one of the Letters of Samuel Rutherford. These are absolutely great, and so helpful to read and think on.

Our family is reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe right now for the umpteenth time.

And that's all the reading I got right now.

Biblioholism Anonymous - The New Addiction!

John, I am certain that, although you weren't a biblioholic when you were growing up, you have more than made up for it over the past (can you believe we have known each other for almost a...) decade?

You reminded me of several more that need to be added to my list:

Schaeffer's Trilogy and How Then Shall We Live - at least twice.

Edith Schaeffer's L'abri - which I would highly recommend to EVERYONE as an example of simple, real(istic) everyday application of Christianity.

Does Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress count is I have listened to the unabridged version on my Ipod almost constantly for the past month - over three times?

I cannot believe that I didn't put Calvin Miller's Philippian Fragment on my original list. I just finished my 6th read-through last week! EVERY (without exception) seminary student and pastor MUST read this book!

Douglas Wilson's Easy Chairs, Hard Words - 3 times.

I was just thinking about rereading Machen's Christianity and Liberalism.


Here is the apple not falling that far from the tree - here I am reading while across the room... Spencer is reading! What you don't see is the rest of the family spread around the room with books...

I keep telling them that their eyes will get messed up if they sit so close to these books like that.

Kevin - military books?

My list of books

I'm here. I'm working on 2 papers on Existentialism and one on John Wyclif, so I'm a little bogged down with reading that I'm not particularly thrilled with. On the plus side, I'm starting on Luther in my Renaissance and Reformation class.

The problem with this little game is the more I think about it, the more I'll remember books that I left off my list. Although, I must admit, I did not come from a home where reading was valued, so I'm sure I'm way behind you guys.

Ashamed of the Gospel - 4 times

(And I could camp out here for awhile, some of my fellow teachers in Children's bible study have recently discovered Calvinism since we have been studying through the book of Romans, and we are having some terrific discussions. Sunday night someone asked me what I thought was the greatest problem plaguing the lack of doctrinal soundness in the church today. Oh man! PRAGMATISM!!!!!)

Chronicles of Narnia - I'm in the middle of my 2nd time

Mere Christianity - 2 times

Pilgrim's Progress - 3 or 4 times

Christianity and Liberalism by Machen- 2 times

Francis Schaeffer Trilogy: - 2 or 3 times
The God Who Is There
Escape From Reason
He Is There And He Is Not Silent

Uncommon Heroism of Teddy Roosevelt by George Grant - 3 times

Philippian Fragment - 2 times (Remember that one Steve?)

The Act of Marriage by Tim LaHaye - just kidding!

And this doesn't count yet, but I just bought it and I think I'll be reading it several times:

By His Grace and For His Glory by Tom Nettles

Three posts in as many days? Things are looking up!

Kevin, you would know that we would find time to post on that one activity that has consumed us for our entire lives: READING (Thanks Mom and Dad!)

John... what about you? Jason, Jennifer, Dad... do you want to play? The floor is open for anyone to add their list (and even a brief reason).

Kevin -

I had forgotten about Packer's Quest for Godliness (read 2 times) and would have to add Knowing God (have no clue how many times).

Also I must add:
Arnold Dallimore's Spurgeon: A New Biography.
Bruce Olson's Bruchko.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
Alexander Dumas' The COunt of Monte Cristo.
John Piper's Desiring God (although once was plenty for me - his shorter little Bantam book really hits the high points well enough anyway).
John Piper's The Pleasures of God (which, to me, is the very best book of his that I have read - at least 3 times).
All three volumes of The Traditional Bowyer's Bible (sadly I sometimes think that I focus more on it that on my Bible).

Next time I will focus on the military books that I have read more than once. Kevin, have you read many military books? If so, then this is a tag for you (and John, if he is still lurking around somewhere). When you respond to this tag... pick the genre of reading next.

In Christ, My Rock!

I Like Posts about Books

Ditto on the Louis Lamour's

Ditto on the Tolkien (At least 7 I think)

Numerous readings of Narnia

Thomas Watson A Body of Divinity : 3 times.

John Piper Desiring God : 2 times

C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces : 3 times and counting

J.I. Packer A Quest for Godliness : 2 times

Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises : 2 times and counting

There would be many more, but those are some of my favorites (can I add Treasure Island? I have no idea how many times I have read that book. I need to read it again though!)


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Is there anyone still visiting this blog? I check my email once a day to see if anyone has stopped by to touch base. Kevin and John - it seems as though I only have time to speak to Amy and the children. There is not enough of me to also blog with you.

I was briefly thinking about something this afternoon while I welded the coolest big metal structure together! I am reading through Peter Capstick's Death in the Silent Places for the fifth time and got to thinking about books that I have reread numerous times.

Here's the beginning of the list that I came up with:

The Holy Scriptures - God - not enough times!
Death In the Silent Places - Peter Capstick - 5 times
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - +5 times
Ashamed of the Gospel - MacArthur - 3 times
A New Systematic Theology - Robert Reymond - 2 times
Any Louis Lamour or Edgar Burroughs' book - uncountable
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - +3 times
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisavich - Alexander Soltzhenitsyn - +3 times

With my library packed up and stored in my shed I don't have the visual. reminder of what I have read so I will keep thinking about this and update it next week if I come up with new ones.

What about you? What books have drawn you back into their pages and why?