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Discover The Book

Last week I finished one of the best books on parenting and family that I’ve read of late, entitled “The Joy of a Word-Filled Family” by Paul Barnett.  Perhaps of interest to you, Paul has a website and offers the book for free in pdf along with many other resources and some audio files:
http://discoverthebook.org/
http://discoverthebook.org/pdf_library.asp

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2008 CT Book Awards

The 2008 Christianity Today Book Awards
This year, 49 publishers nominated 359 titles published in 2007. CT editors selected the top books in each category, and then panels of judges — one panel per category — voted. In the end, we chose 10 winners and gave 11 awards of merit to the books that best shed [...]

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These prices are the very lowest for these resources, lower than academic pricing via Logos.com
1) Baker NT Commentary (Hendriksen/Kistemaker) on CD-ROM (Libronix)
Print Value: $600.00
List Price of CD: $250.00
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2) Discipleship Journal [...]

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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death and I wish that more people not only read it, but would take heed.  If it is any indication of how insightful I believe this segment to be, I typed up each word, and I think the final paragraph will change your life:
If you were a producer of [...]

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It has been a while since my last post, so here is something that has been sitting in my email for about a week:
Sproul Doctrinal Studies Series (Free Download)
NEW from Doxa Digital Press!
Where Theology Meets Technology
Author: R.C. Sproul
Series: Sproul Doctrinal Studies
Volume Number: 1
Price: Free
Publisher: Doxa Digital Press
Media: Download
Coupon Code: SPROUL
Hebrews, Part 1 by R.C. Sproul [...]

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Quarter-Life Crisis

While not an authoritative post on the subject, I was pleased to see the topic brought up in a recent Boundless article, which I’ve cleaned up a little to present below.  Hopefully it should stimulate some thought.  All too often we stop at labeling or categorizing instead of digging deeper to find find the root [...]

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Click here for the product page. It includes Kent Hughes’ useful commentary series, and a good selection of other tools. Many of the “essential” tools are not included, and for that you would have to buy a separate package or retail product, but in some ways this may be beneficial so that there [...]

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My Digital Library

Recently I had the blessing of picking up some of Phil Gons’ books to add to my Libronix library, bringing the total number of resources up to 3054.  Yes, that’s right, digitally I have nearly six times the number of books on my shelf.  Digital books are great because they are portable, searchable, and actually [...]

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Challies Book Guide

Tim Challies as published a Christmas Book Guide.

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Adultolescents

Different name, same phenomenon:
Christian Smith, professor of sociology at Notre Dame, wrote in the most recent Books and Culture a review of six books that deal with the new phenomenon of “adultolescence”—that is, the postponement of adulthood into the thirties. I want to relate this phenomenon to the church. But first here is a [...]

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