Posted in some thoughts on Jun 24th, 2009
In response to a recent post by Joel over at Token Lines Suggesting Rhythm, here are the first 15 books that came to mind that “will always stick with me” : Desiring God, by John Piper The End for Which God Created the World, by Jonathan Edwards (in Piper’s God’s Passion for His Glory) The [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jun 15th, 2009
Recently Mike asked me for some good poetry recommendations. I’ve decided to turn my response into its own post, so here goes (forgive the comment-response format): I’m a big fan of Milton (Lycidas, Il Penseroso & L’Allegro, At a Solemn Musick, etc.). Then there’s Shakespeare, of course. Yeats, Keats, The Brownings (Robert, Elizabeth), Gray (Favourite [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jun 5th, 2009
A few whifs of stoicism aside, here’s a great poem I’ve just come across by Rudyard Kipling: IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jun 5th, 2009
Micah over at Mad Sanity has some great advice after 10 years at his job: Don’t talk about people behind their backs. Just don’t. Be a gossip vault. Always be on time. No matter how good you are at your job, if you are constantly late, it’s what you will be known for. Don’t call [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jun 3rd, 2009
It is not ‘triumphalistic’ to heartily rejoice in the ‘already’ aspects of Christ’s victory. Sure, there’s a ‘not yet’, but so what? Shouldn’t we march boisterously toward the not yet – even if we still have to limp until we get there? Shouldn’t our sins and the devil be bludgeoned with loud rejoicing over what has [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jun 2nd, 2009
Just a brief plug for Jerry Bridges’ wonderful* little book, Respectable Sins : Confronting the Sins we Tolerate. I’ve been a thankful fan of Jerry Bridges since I first read his excellent The Pursuit of Holiness and The Practice of Godliness back around 1997. Both are excellent devotional-type books, great for a chapter-a-day reading (though [...]
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