Right now I am reading The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline it’s by Jonathan Leeman and it comes from 9 Marks.
I like it. He brings some very interesting points. First, he interacts with our cultural misunderstands of individuality, love, and authority. He argues that the church needs to define love to the world. Second, he sets forth biblical understands of love and authority. Lastly, he applies these biblical definitions to membership and discipline.
It’s a very good read.
What are you reading?
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I am reading Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight by J.I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom. It’s been very challenging and very good.
I am reading the Lord of the Rings series again. Im about halfway through Two Towers. Good stuff. I als have a few other books in the works too.
I am (re-)reading Trusting God … Even When Life Hurts, by Jerry Bridges. It’s a classic. I’ve read it numerous times and I’m on my second copy since the first one is so marked up. It’s packed with scripture. I highly recommend it to anyone who struggles with connecting the theology of God’s Sovereignty with everyday life. Yes. We know He’s sovereign in the management of the universe but is He really sovereign in the events of my everyday life? Yes. Indeed.
On the inside page of every book I read, I write any unique and helpful phraseology I like which is peculiar to the writer. (Each author’s particular way of saying things tells me God has fashioned every soul into a special person.) The book I am reading now uses these phrases: “the insulted majesty of God”, “deserved doom”, “the immediate remisssion (forgiveness) of sins”, “more glorified in saving than in condemning us”, and “the attractive graces of the Spirit”. The book is “Christ’s Doctrine of the Atonement” by George Smeaton.