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The Imperfect Pastor [A Book Review]

September 26, 2015
Post-apocalyptic movies always begin the same way. The scene opens upon the heels of catastrophe-all of humanity's best laid plans have quite literally exploded around us, and the few survivors are left to pull together what remains and eke out some…
Tags: book reviewimperfect pastorministrypastoral theologyzack eswine

The River Cottage Booze Handbook [a review]

June 18, 2015
From rose hip vodka to green walnut grappa, from elder flower and gooseberry wine to blackberry cider, from puffed wheat beer to dandelion and burdock beer, it is clear that alcohol is really something of an art form for Wright. These brews are intended to stand out from the crowded shelf of normalcy.
Tags: alcoholbeverageboozeforagejohn wrightreviewriver cottage

Pure Food: Eat Clean With Seasonal, Plant-Based Recipes [a review]

April 24, 2015
My wife and I have been experimenting in the kitchen for the past few years, looking through various cookbooks and trying new recipes. She's been doing the lion's share of the cooking lately, and so the following review is written by her. Two topics…
Tags: cookbookeatingfoodhealthypure foodrecipesveronica bosgraaf

Noah: Reflections

September 20, 2014
While Aronofsky might not have gotten some of the details right on the Noahic plotline, in my opinion he absolutely nailed the Bible's emotional stance on evil. I've typically found among us evangelical types that we're generally okay with movies as long as they don't have sex scenes or four-letter words, but when it comes to glamorously portraying horrifically graphic violence or greed (for instance), we don't bat an eye.
Tags: aronofskybiblecultural commentarymovienoahreflection

Make Some Beer [A Review]

September 1, 2014
"Craft beer is like wine these days," my brother offhandedly remarked to me "It's crazy how many options there are." I grew up on the front range of Colorado, which is basically micro brew mecca. It's weird if your town doesn't have a brewery. Call…
Tags: beercrafterica sheahome brewmake some beermicroreviewsmall batchstephen valand

The Wonder-Working God [A Review]

August 25, 2014
What are we supposed to do with miracles? Sigh. We could write them off as pre-scientific descriptions of very natural phenomena or we could look at them as mythological tales designed to communicate theological truth. Both of these options allow us…
Tags: biblebook reviewdevotiongods storygospelgospel centeredhermeneuticsinterpretationjared wilsonjesusmiraclesmiraculouswonder working god

Kindling a Revolution in Reading

August 7, 2014
We bookish types are straddling two very disparate worlds right now. The old world is that of the wonderful used bookstore crammed with too many floor-to-ceiling bookshelves which are in turn crammed with too many used books, each ripe enough to give…
Tags: amazonbooksdigital readingebookskindlereadingreview

The Word of the Lord [A Review]

August 4, 2014
Hers is a name that I have seen more and more frequently over the past year on the blogs I frequent as well as on Facebook amongst my friends. Until recently, however, I had known very little about Nancy Guthrie, and so I decided to pick up one of…
Tags: bible studydarren arenofskyhermeneuticshistorical speculationnancy guthrienoahprophetic literatureprophetsthe word of the lordwomen
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