What are you reading?

[RC21]

Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus by Idleman, Kyle. I've been trying to read the bible but I definitely need to get a reading plan together for it.

 

[AirForceTeacher]

NIST 800.41 unfortunately.

 

[GodsGirlToday61]

Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed

(will be, again and again: pray, read, reflect, let it dig deeper down into my heart, pray, read, reflect... )

 

[greatdivide46]

Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ edited by Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright

 

[JM]

Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ edited by Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright

I have recommended this title numerous times.

 

[GodsGirlToday61]

The Philokalia (Volume One) translated from the Greek and edited by Palmer, Philip, Sherrard, Ware

 

[Keachian]

Covenant Theology: A Reformed and Baptistic Perspective on God's Covenants

Nearly finished, it's taken a hard slog, the only book that's taken me longer this year is The Cross of Christ, next up is the Forgotten Trinity

 

[JM]

I'll try by best to sum up 1689 Federalism (it is late tho):

Promise made: Gen. 3.15
Promise restated: Gen. 12
Covenant of Works restated at Sinai to rule the nation with a gracious reminder to the elect
Promise restated: Jer. 31
Promised fulfilled in the life and death of Christ: Matt. 26 / Heb. 9:16
The Jew defined as spiritual: Rom. 2
The seed of Abraham is Christ, not a physical seed: Gal. 3

*Romans 11 deals with gentiles being grafted into spiritual Israel and spiritual Israel is defined by belief in Christ, not physical birth, faith.

Yours in the Lord,

jm

 

[greatdivide46]

The Nomalers by Jamil Nasir

 

[GodsGirlToday61]

William Law (Selections from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life)

 

[sheina]

Yoga and the Body of Christ by Dave Hunt

 

[Fireinfolding]

This thread

 

[Keachian]

I'll try by best to sum up 1689 Federalism (it is late tho):

Promise made: Gen. 3.15
Promise restated: Gen. 12
Covenant of Works restated at Sinai to rule the nation with a gracious reminder to the elect
Promise restated: Jer. 31
Promised fulfilled in the life and death of Christ: Matt. 26 / Heb. 9:16
The Jew defined as spiritual: Rom. 2
The seed of Abraham is Christ, not a physical seed: Gal. 3

*Romans 11 deals with gentiles being grafted into spiritual Israel and spiritual Israel is defined by belief in Christ, not physical birth, faith.

Yours in the Lord,

jm

I have Denault to read at some point in the future, (it's at #6 on my reading list) though from a quick look at the diagrams on 1689federalism.com without going further into what 1689F is Nichols is closer to that position than I originally thought and I would say that the difference is focused on how the covenants interact with each other. I'm still figuring out what expression of covenant theology is Biblical but I'll note that one of the places that I disagree with Nichols is one of the places that I disagree with 2LBCF (I believe 22.7 is in opposition to Hb 3-4) 1689F may not be really any closer to how I see the covenants though I could be swayed.

 

[JM]

Nichols, from what I know of his work, views the Covenant of Works as the one and the same substance as the Covenant of Grace. The 1689 framers did not.

 

[GodsGirlToday61]

Mental Disorders and Spiritual Healing (Teachings from the Early Christian East) by Jean-Claude Larchet

 

[sadistmy]

Unlocking the Bible by David Pawson

 

[GodsGirlToday61]

Leisure (The Basis of Culture) by Josef Pieper, which is about 'leisure' meant to be a 'resting in God', not 'a break from work' as the modern mind 'theoretically views it but is unable to actually live it--too anxious about work; not any longer understanding what the Sabbath was meant to be...

~ Carolyn

 

[ValorWoman4Jesus]

I ave read so many Christian books, but the ones I am reading now include Zenith 2016 by Tom Horn, Wounded by God's People by Anne Graham Lotz, Money and the Prosperous Soul by Stephen K. De Silva and Because He Loves Me by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick.

 

[GodsGirlToday61]

John Climacus: Ladder of Divine Ascent (really awesome!), recommended by Catholics, EO, Protestants, Jews, Islamics (laity, monastics), because it goes deep into real-deal Christ-like living

~ Carolyn

 

[AirForceTeacher]

Just introduced Bladerunner to my 16 year old son, so I got curious and picked up the source novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and read it last night. not bad.