books

It’s a BOOK!

December 15, 2011

This isn’t just any ordinary bowl of chips and salsa. Maria Bonita’s chips are the official Celebratory Chips of the Furman household. We’re celebrating something super exciting! No, there isn’t another Baby Furman on the way. But there is something on the way that is sort of like a baby– it has a due date, [...]

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What’s on your nightstand?

May 5, 2011
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If I leave unattended books on my nightstand for any longer than a day then I later find them behind the curtains with crayon markings in them. So the books I’m reading stay on my desk. But the proverbial question remains: What’s on your nightstand? And further: Anything you can recommend?

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The Beginning and the New Beginning

April 20, 2011

This is just one more reason why I love the Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones. I’ve talked about this book before here. I receive the author’s newsletters and embedded in the latest one was this video featuring text and images from the book. In light of Easter Week, it is good to consider the [...]

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Book Review: Shepherding a Child’s Heart

November 11, 2010
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Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart (revised and updated), Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 2005. Since it’s first publication and then revision in 2005 plenty of informative reviews have been written about this book, including this one by Tim Challies. But none of the reviews suggest what I am about to propose. I propose that Dr [...]

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New book stack

October 30, 2010
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A couple of re-reads and a bunch of new additions. Anyone want to read with me?

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Book Review: How People Change

October 23, 2010
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Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp, How People Change (Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2008). Dave and I have been discussing this book together on our date nights. It gives us something character-shaping to talk about in addition to what we’re up to at work, how the kids are doing, and boring things like [...]

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Book Review: Counsel from the Cross

October 7, 2010
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Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Dennis E. Johnson, Counsel from the Cross: Connecting Broken People to the Love of Christ, (Wheaton, ILL: Crossway Books, 2009). Counselor, author and conference speaker Elyse Fitzpatrick and seminary professor Dennis Johnson attempt a sweeping overview of the discipline of biblical counseling, and provide a marvelous (and short!) treatment on the [...]

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