This is my contribution to a group blogging project using Simple Church. Essentially, a blogger writes/reflects on one chapter and hosts the discussion on their blog/website over the course of two weeks. Go to Andy’s website for links to the previous chapters/discussion or the last one (chapter nine). Without further a due my reflections on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘blogging the book’
5 Oct
Group Blogging Project: Simple Church
I am participating in a “group blogging project” on Thom Rainer & Eric Geiger’s Simple Church. Essentially, a group diverse group of bloggers will each take turns hosting a discussion on a chapter of the book over the next two weeks. I will be hosting the discussion on chapter nine eight, next Wednesday. To read [...]
19 Nov
A Journey Worth Taking: Part 5 – Consummation
With Part 5 (Consummation: The View from the Top) of A Journey Worth Taking, we reach the last part of Charles Drew’s book. In previous sections, Drew helped us to see the implications of Creation, The Fall, and Redemption on our purpose and calling in this world. There were a couple of thoughts that jumped [...]
12 Nov
A Journey Worth Taking: Redemption
I missed a post last week, though I kept my reading schedule. Anyway, this post will cover the three chapters in the section “Redemption: Help Along the Way”. You can read more about what I am doing and see a schedule for reading/posting here. First post is here. Second post is here. Third is here. [...]
29 Oct
A Journey Worth Taking: The Fall (part 2 of 2)
You can read more about what I am doing and see a schedule for reading/posting here. First post is here. Second post is here. Third is here. The fourth is here. In chapters 10 and 11, Charles Drew in A Journey Worth Taking, concludes his probing of the effects of the sin of man on [...]
22 Oct
A Journey Worth Taking: Fall (Part 1 of 2)
You can read more about what I am doing and see a schedule for reading/posting here. First post is here. Second post is here. Third is here. In A Journey Worth Taking, Charles Drew is using a “theology map” to look at the topic of calling and purpose. Drew moves from Creation to Fall in [...]
15 Oct
A Journey Worth Taking: Creation (part 2 of 2)
You can read more about what I am doing and see a schedule for reading/posting here. First post is here. Second post is here. I love how Drew is directing us in chapter six to make God the priority of our lives – that that will be the most meaningful way for us to “find [...]
8 Oct
A Journey Worth Taking: Creation (part 1 of 2)
You can read more about what I am doing and see a schedule for reading/posting here. First post is here. In A Journey Worth Taking, Charles Drew is using a reformed framework for looking at the story of Scripture with a big lens: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation. Drew calles this a “theology map” to take [...]
1 Oct
A Journey Worth Taking: Staging Points
This is the start of the next “blogging the book” using Charles Drew’s book A Journey Worth Taking: Finding Your Purpose in This World. You can read more about what I am doing and see a schedule for reading/posting here. The preparation for a journey can be just as important as the journey itself. In [...]
16 Sep
Running Scared: Final Post
Read about what I’m doing here (including the schedule for posts). Part one here. Part two here. Part three here and here. Part four here. Part five here. Part six here. Part seven here. This brings us to the end of Edward Welch’s good book, Running Scared, with the reading of the last few chapters. [...]
11 Sep
New Blogging the Book: A Journey Worth Taking
As we wrap up our reading of Running Scared next week, I wanted to throw out the reading schedule for the next blogging the book. This quarter, I will be reading through Charles Drew’s book A Journey Worth Taking: Finding Your Purpose in This World. Drew is pastor of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Manhattan [...]
10 Sep
Running Scared (Part 7): God Speaks – Peace Be With You – 1
Read about what I’m doing here (including the schedule for posts). Part one here. Part two here. Part three here and here. Part four here. Part five here. Part six here. We are nearing the end of this “blogging the book” version using Ed Welch’s Running Scared: fear, worry, and the God of rest as [...]
3 Sep
Running Scared (Part Six): On Death, Pain, & Judgment
Read about what I’m doing here (including the schedule for posts). Part one here. Part two here. Part three here and here. Part four here. Part five here. I was listening to this episode of This American Life during our trip and one of the stories was about people who fear sleep because of the [...]
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