So, no sense in listing all the books I got for Christmas and Birthday until I read them. Here are the three I have gotten into so far: 1) David Wells, No Place for Truth, 2) Michael Horton, Christless Christianity, and 3) John Piper, Spectacular Sins. Done with Wells and Horton, but only 3 chapters into Piper, which I'm using to study for a 4-week class we're doing on The Sovereignty of God. This morning, I've just cracked open Mark Dever's latest, Twelve Challenges Churches Face, which is apparently a sort of loose exposition of 1 Corinthians and the similar problems that church faced. Oh yeah, and on Christmas morning I tore through the first five chapters of John Owen's Temptation. Sadly, though I was riveted and convicted, my right hand highlighting studiously, my left hand was extracting the chocolates from my stocking. What did Pascal say about man being a mass of contradictions? I didn't mean to. And stop judging me.
Anyway, Wells and Horton got me doing a lot of thinking: mostly about my dumb little book, Doctrine and Division. It's pretty much already been said before by guys like Wells and Horton, and Os Guinness and Mark Noll and John MacArthur, and yet to put it all together in one place! Ah, what's the use? I have no time to do serious writing now---3 kids, church plant, you get the idea. So there you have it.
At The Well, we're 6 sermons into an 8-part vision-building series called "Church from the Ground Up." Listen to it at www.thewellboise.com In spite of all the ways we get distracted, God is good and continues to give us undeserved blessings in our family and church.
Maybe I'll remember to blog a bit more this year!
Monday, January 5, 2009
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