Top Books of 2012

I enjoyed compiling my list of books read this year and remembering some I had forgotten. This has definitely been the year of the audiobook for me. I mentioned in my thoughts on audiobooks that generally I still prefer paper books, but audiobooks have greatly enriched my life this year. I generally listen to them […]

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Books Read in 2012

If I don’t count audiobooks, I read 60 books this year: if I add them, the total comes to 78.  The 60 total is a little less than last year (due probably to playing games on my iPhone during times I would normally have been reading. ), but I am pleased with the overall totals […]

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Fall Into Reading 2012 Wrap-Up

The end of autumn means, among other things, the end of Katrina’s Fall Into Reading Challenge! It’s time to share how we did with our personal challenges. I read all the books on my list except one. By the time I finished everything else it was a week or so into December, and because I […]

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What’s On Your Nightstand: November 2012

The folks at 5 Minutes For Books host What’s On Your Nightstand? the fourth Tuesday of each month in which we can share about the books we have been reading and/or plan to read. It seems so long since the last Nightstand, though it has only been the usual time frame. It’s been a busy […]

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“The Discipline of Adversity”

“The Discipline of Adversity” is the 13th and final chapter in the book The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges, which we’re discussing every Thursday in the “Reading Classics Together” challenge at Challies‘ place. More discussion on this chapter is here. though we can only do all of the other disciplines Bridges has discussed with […]

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“The Discipline of Watching”

“The Discipline of Watching” is the 12th chapter in the book The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges, which we’re discussing every Thursday in the “Reading Classics Together” challenge at Challies‘ place. More discussion on this chapter is here. The epigraph for this chapter is Matthew 26:41: “Watch and pray that you may not enter […]

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“The Discipline of Choices”

“The Discipline of Choices” is the 11th chapter in the book The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges, which we’re discussing every Thursday in the “Reading Classics Together” challenge at Challies‘ place. More discussion on this chapter is here. This was a hard chapter for me. Not hard to understand so much, but hard to […]

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The Discipline of Convictions

Contrary to the postmodern belief that there is no absolute truth, the Bible discloses much absolute truth, and it is incumbent upon believers to know it both so that we worship God “in spirit and in truth,” and so that our behavior reflects our beliefs. Otherwise our morality is determined by consensus, by what everyone […]

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“The Discipline of Commitment”

After I first became a Christian, when I would become convicted of some sin, I’d make a commitment never to do that again…and of course, fall flat on my face. So I began to think making a commitment was not the way to go about it and was, in fact, setting oneself up for failure. […]

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“Dependent Discipline”

“Dependent Discipline” is the 8th chapter in the book The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges, which we’re discussing every Thursday in the “Reading Classics Together” challenge at Challies‘ place. Bridges likens dependence and discipline to the two different wings of an airplane, both of which are needed to fly. By discipline here he means […]

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