Category: Books
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Democracy on Trial
Just a few more pages and I’m through with Bethke Elshtain’s Democracy on Trial. I guess the long and short of what I’ve learned from this books is that – … human beings will always fall short of an absolute ideal… “the only reasonable hope for salvation from evil and wickedness at which men might…
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Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton’s really something. Yesterday I started reading his The Sign of Jonas and I found gems scattered all round! I have only one desire and that is the desire for solitude – to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face. Let me keep…
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A Father’s Influence
Matthew Henry, the great Bible Commentator, was who he was largely because of the influence of his father, Philip Henry: Matthew Henry, having such a well educated father as his private tutor, lacked nothing that a more formal theological education might have brought him. Every day his father preached to the household at family prayers,…
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God, Man and Morals
Just a couple of chapters more and I’ll be through with Francis Schaeffer’s Trilogy. I’m now in chapter 2 of the 3rd Book in the Trilogy, He is There and He is Not Silent, where Schaeffer describes man’s dilemma: man is noble and he is also cruel. How do you account for both his nobility…
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More!
“To him who has more shall be given.” I was in Iloilo yesterday on a book-buying spree. Here are some of my finds which are a cause for rejoicing: Martin Luther’s Three Treatises Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (ed.by Donald K. McKim) The Constitutional Philosophy of Philippine Jurisprudence (subtitled The Writings of Senior Associate…
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New Book
I enrolled in a one-week modular class in New Testament Exegesis under Dr. Rene Chanco at Asian Theological Seminary-Bacolod, which ended yesterday. My classmates and I had a great time. This morning my wife arrived from Manila with a gift for me: All My Road Before Me, subtitled The Diary of C.S. Lewis. I’m looking…
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John Stott
I only recently came to know that Evangelicalism’s elder statesman, “Pope” John Stott has retired at the age of 86. I add my small voice from the Philippines to the torrent of thanksgiving pouring out from all over the world for the ministry of this great and wonderful man of God. Many years ago I…
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Os Guinness on Truth
I’m presently rereading Os Guinness’ Time for Truth (Baker Books, 2000) a small but very important book. I’m convicted by it to do my best to seek the truth, speak the truth and live the truth. “The discipline of living in truth is urgent today because modern life reduces community and accountability to its thinnest,…
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Al Mohler’s Library
You have to see it to believe it! Al Mohler’s personal library consists of around 30,000 books and he has read around 90% of them!!! Not only that, you can try picking a book at random and he can summarize the contents of it for you. Click here and see for yourself.
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Reading Without End
Two verses come to mind when I think of reading – one from Ecclesiastes, the other from Proverbs: “To the making of books there is no end, and too much study is a weariness of the flesh.” (Ecc. 12:12) “Wisdom is supreme; therefore, get wisdom. Though it cost you all you have get understanding.” (Prov.…
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