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... to carry out so thorough and searching a critique of the human predicament" (Enns, Ecclesiastes, 133).  Thus there is no need to say "anything beyond these" words (Eccl 12:12a).  There is no need to add ...
2. Gospel-Centered Family: Becoming the Parents God Wants You to Be
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)
... our children and not just controlling their behavior.  Critique (strengths and weaknesses): This was originally published in the UK so there are some differences in terminology.  For example, it calls ...
... be right in their critique because they do not understand our faith.  The army field commander also reminds us that people will not only come at us with logical critiques of our faith and our practice ...
4. The Invitation: A Simple Guide to the Bible by Eugene Peterson
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)
... some of the shorter writings.  This is a book written for everyone in our culture. Critique (strengths and weaknesses): The opening essay is great and makes me want to go out right now and buy and ...
5. Cycle 2: Seven Trumpets (Revelation 8:2-11:19)
(teaching/Revelation Commentary)
... or their sorceries or their sexual immorality  or their thefts" (Rev 9:20-21).  That is a classic prophetic way to critique idol worship -- idols cannot see, hear or walk, and the rest of the list also ...
... the intertextual "learned quotations" and these patterns to see the "intelligent design" of the human author. Critique (strengths and weaknesses): Sailhamer offers a very well thought out approach to ...
7. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)
... (in the tradition of Van Til). Critique (strengths and weaknesses): Like with most people, I would not agree with absolutely everything that he says. However, the strengths of this book far exceed any ...
... 9:19-27).  The approach is exegetical (interpreting the text) and the application is to Christian leadership. Critique (strengths & weaknesses): Carson does the work of interpretation convincingly and ...
9. For These Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope & Healing
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)
... "if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (ESV).  See the critique.  Lucado then uses Joseph, Moses, Daniel, and then Jesus, as exemplary.  The theme is that when everything falls ...
10. Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)
... as meditations to take one at a time, but I could hardly put it down. Critique(strengths and weaknesses): I am afraid that many people will not read this book because of its title Running Scared.  Any ...
11. History Channel Agenda
(teaching/general teachings)
... is capable of the same critique that they make of Scripture but they pretend to be objective and have no justification for doing so.  To be objective it must be the correct interpretation (which only God ...
12. Seeking a Better Country: 300 Years of American Presbyterianism
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)
... than anything else (leaving much of the prescription to each reader) as they are historians. Critique (strengths & weaknesses): The book is a fascinating read and showed me (someone who was a history ...
13. Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)
... was one of the important religious affections that drove him to endure. Critique (strengths & weaknesses) Piper has a real gift for telling the narrative of Wilberforce's life and especially his conversion.  ...
... and he knew his heart. Critique (strengths & weaknesses) From a modern point of view the work includes insensitive language such as savage, heathen, and so forth.  However, it appears that Brainerd did ...