Short Outline of Blogsite Posts:
I. Posts on the Bible itself:
The Old Testament books
The New Testament books
Other Bible posts
II. Books discussed:
Apologetics
Bible commentary
Biblical biographies
Greece and Rome and other ancient history
Prayer
By or about C.S. Lewis
Christian literature
Other books
III. Other posts:
Posts related to Pascal’s Wager
Poems
Miscellaneous
I. Posts on the Bible itself:
Before You Read the Bible: A Preliminary Decalogue
The Old Testament books:
The four Moses books (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy)
A thousand years of Jewish history (overview of Joshua through Esther)
The minor prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi); also More Jonah and More Haggai.
The New Testament books:
The four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John); also Toward a Harmonious Reading of the Gospels.
Other Bible posts:
Some Thoughts on Textual Interpretation
A Similarity in Old and New Testament Structure
St. Paul and Alexander Hamilton
How Unified Is the Bible Text?
What’s the Script on Scripture?
Elaboration of a Good Point by C.S. Lewis in “Miracles”
The Dozen Things We Pray in the Lord’s Prayer
A Few Notes on Jesus’ Parables
The Old Testament Books — in Fifteen Couplets
Comparing the Twenty-Third Psalm and the Lord’s Prayer
Reasons To Believe Jesus Was Divine
The Sensible Sequence of the Ten Commandments
“… But the Greatest of These Is Love”
“Put on the Full Armor of God …”
Some Notes on Acts, Mostly Questions
A Couple of Bible Thoughts To Start the Month
Two Random Notes from the Sermon on the Mount
Two Thoughts To Start the Month
A New Year Thought: OT/NT Complementarity
II. Books discussed:
Apologetics:
Amir D. Aczel, “Why Science Does Not Disprove God”
Francois Bovon, “The Last Days of Jesus”
F.F. Bruce, “The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?”
Francis S. Collins, “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”
William Lane Craig, “The Son Rises: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus”
Dinesh D’Souza, “Life after Death: The Evidence”
Dinesh D’Souza, “What’s So Great about Christianity”
Patrick Glynn, “God: The Evidence”
Dr. Timothy Johnson, “Finding God in the Questions”
Timothy Keller, “Encounters with Jesus”
D. James Kennedy, “Skeptics Answered”
Peter Kreeft, “Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing”
Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli, “Handbook of Christian Apologetics”
Erwin W. Lutzer, “Seven Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible”
Louis Markos, “Apologetics for the Twenty-First Century”
Josh & Sean McDowell, “More Than a Carpenter”
Frank Morrison, “Who Moved the Stone?”
Michael J. Murray, editor, “Reason for the Hope Within”
Michael Novak, “No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers”
John Polkinghorne, “The Faith of a Physicist”
Gerald L. Schroeder, “The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom”
John R.W. Stott, “Basic Christianity”
Ben Witherington III, “New Testament History: A Narrative Account”
N.T. Wright, “Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense”
Ravi Zacharias, editor, “Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend”
Ravi Zacharias, “Can Man Live without God?”
Ravi Zacharias, “The Grand Weaver”
Ravi Zacharias, “Jesus among Other Gods”
Bible commentary:
Randy Alcorn, “The Law of Rewards”
Robert Alter, “The Book of Psalms”
Robert Alter, “The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of I and II Samuel”
Robert Alter, “The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes”
Richard Bauckham, “Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony” (second edition)
Richard Bauckham, “The Theology of the Book of Revelation”
Harold Bloom, “The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible”
Ellen F. Davis, “Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament”
Terence E. Fretheim, “The Pentateuch”
Joseph F. Girzone, “Jesus: His Life and Teachings”
Colin J. Hemer, “The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History”
David Lyle Jeffrey, “Luke” (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)
Timothy Keller, “King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus”
Malcolm Muggeridge, “Jesus: The Man Who Lives”
Adam Nicolson, “God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible”
Jaroslav Pelikan, “Acts” (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)
Jaroslav Pelikan, “Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution”
Garry Wills, “What Jesus Meant”
Garry Wills, “What Paul Meant”
Garry Wills, “What the Gospels Meant”
Ben Witherington III, “The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth”
N.T. Wright, “The Lord and His Prayer”
N.T. Wright, “What Saint Paul Really Said”
Philip Yancey, “The Bible Jesus Read”
Biblical biographies:
William Barclay, “The Master’s Men: Character Sketches of the Disciples”
Michael Grant, “Saint Peter: A Biography”
Malcolm Muggeridge & Alec Vidler, “Paul, Envoy Extraordinary”
Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, “Paul: His Story” and “Paul: A Critical Life”
Elie Wiesel, “Five Biblical Portraits”
Greece and Rome and other ancient history:
Leslie Adkins & Roy A. Adkins, “Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome”
Rosalie F. & Charles F. Baker III, “Ancient Romans: Expanding the Classical Tradition”
Mary Beard & John Henderson, “Classics: A Very Short Introduction”
Anthony Birley, “Marcus Aurelius: A Biography”
Boethius, “The Consolation of Philosophy”
Bob Brier, “Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt” (audiobook lecture)
Edward Gibbon, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (abridged audiobook)
Edith Hamilton, “The Roman Way”
Roberta L. Harris, “The World of the Bible”
R.K. Harrison, editor, “Major Cities of the Biblical World”
Hesiod, “Works and Days” and “Theogony”
Erica C.D. Hunter (updated by Mike Corbishley), “First Civilizations”
Elaine Landau, “The Assyrians,” “The Sumerians,” and “The Babylonians”
Peter J. Leithart, “Heroes of the City of Man”
Louis Markos, “From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics”
Amanda H. Podany & Marni McGee, “The Ancient Near Eastern World”
Donald P. Ryan, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the World of the Bible”
Christopher Scarre, “Chronicle of the Roman Emperors”
Robert N. Schwartz, “The Roman Empire: A Concise History of the First Two Centuries”
Peter Thonemann, “The Hellenistic Age”
Robert L. Wilken, “The Christians as the Romans Saw Them”
Greg Woolf, “Rome: An Empire’s Story”
Elizabeth Vandiver, “Classical Mythology” (Teaching Company CD, part 1)
Prayer:
Mark Galli & James S. Bell, Jr., “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Prayer”
Timothy Keller, “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”
Linus Mundy, “The Complete Guide to Prayer-Walking: A Simple Path to Body-and-Soul Fitness”
Charles Stanley, “How to Listen to God”
By or about C.S. Lewis:
Devin Brown, “A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis”
James Como, “Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C.S. Lewis”
James Como, “C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction”
James T. Como (editor), “C.S.Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences”
David C. Downing, “The Most Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis’s Journey to Faith”
Douglas Gresham, “Jack’s Life”
William Griffin, “Clive Staple Lewis: A Dramatic Life”
Walter Hooper, “C.S. Lewis Companion and Guide”
Alan Jacobs, “The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis”
Peter Kreeft, “C.S. Lewis: A Critical Essay”
John Lawler, “C.S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections” (with a foreword by Walter Hooper)
C.S. Lewis, “Christian Reflections”
C.S. Lewis (editor and preface’s author), “George MacDonald: 365 Readings”
C.S. Lewis, “The Great Divorce”
C.S. Lewis, “Letters to an American Lady”
C.S. Lewis, “The Pilgrim’s Regress”
C.S. Lewis, “Surprised by Joy” (audiobook)
“The Timeless Writings of C.S. Lewis”
Art Lindsley, “C.S. Lewis’s Case for Christ: Insights from Reason, Imagination and Faith”
George M. Marsden, “C.S. Lewis’s ‘Mere Christianity’: A Biography”
Alister McGrath, “C.S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet”
Alister McGrath, “If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis”
Robert L. Purtill, “C.S. Lewis’s Case for the Christian Faith”
George Sayer, “Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis”
Stephen Schofield, editor, “In Search of C.S. Lewis”
“The Most Reluctant Convert” (film)
Christian literature:
G.K. Chesterton, “The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown”
Sally Fitzgerald, editor, “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor”
Jessica Hooten Wilson, “Reading Walker Percy’s Novels”
P.G. Wodehouse, “The Mating Season”
Other books:
Geoffrey Barlow, editor, “Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society”
Paul W. Barnett, “Jesus and the Logic of History”
Richard Bauckham, “Jesus: A Very Short Introduction”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “Life Together”
G.K. Chesterton, “St. Thomas Aquinas”
G.K. Chesterton, “Tremendous Trifles”
Robert E. Coleman, “The Master Plan of Evangelism”
Michael Cook, “The Koran: A Very Short Introduction”
Paul Copan, “A Little Book for New Philosophers: Why and How to Study Philosophy”
Hermann Diem, “Kirkegaard: An Introduction”
Ross Douthat, “Bad Religion” (audiobook)
Richard J. Foster & James Bryan Smith, editors, “Devotional Classics”
Hugh Hewitt, “The Happiest Life”
Thomas Howard, “Chance or the Dance?: A Critique of Modern Secularism”
Bill Hybels, “Just Walk across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith”
Timothy Keller, “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”
Steven J. Lawson, “The Daring Mission of William Tyndale”
Steven J. Lawson, “The Evangelistic Zeal of George Whitefield”
Carter Lindberg, “A Brief History of Christianity”
Paul E. Little, “Know What You Believe”
Debbie Macomber: “Once upon a Time: Discovering Our Forever After Story”
Malcolm Muggeridge, “Jesus Rediscovered”
Malcolm Muggeridge, “A Third Testament”
John M. Mulder, editor, “Finding God: A Treasury of Conversion Stories”
David Murray, “The Happy Christian”
Richard John Neuhaus, “The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America”
Marvin R. O’Connell, “Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart”
Adam & Monica Potkay, “The Bible as the Root of Western Literature: Stories, Poems, and Parables”
Michael Reeves, “Theologians You Should Know”
Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Mind of the Maker”
R.C. Sproul, “The Holiness of God”
Paul Strathern, “Kant in 90 Minutes”
John M. Templeton, Jr., “Thrift and Generosity: The Joy of Giving”
Robert J. Wicks, “Everyday Simplicity: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Growth”
David Wilkie, “Coffee with Jesus”
Rowan Williams, “Christ on Trial: How the Gospel Unsettles Our Judgment”
Garry Wills, “Saint Augustine” (audiobook)
N.T. Wright, “The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is”
N.T. Wright, “Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why It Matters”
Philip Yancey, ‘The Jesus I Never Knew”
Ravi Zacharias, “Recapture the Wonder”
III. Other posts:
Posts related to Pascal’s Wager:
Why I Am a Christian (and You Should Be, Too), in 600 Words
A List of Reasons To Believe, One Sentence Each
Another Way of Using Pascal’s Wager
Random Additional Thoughts on Pascal’s Wager
Pascal’s Wager and the Old Folks
Is “Cultivating Faith” Dishonest?
How Should You “Cultivate Faith”?
Marvin R. O’Connell, “Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart”
Some Notes on Pascal’s Wager and the Search for Truth
T.S. Eliot’s Introduction to Blaise Pascal’s Pensees
Poems:
The Old Testament Books — in Fifteen Couplets
T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi”
Miscellaneous:
A Dozen Thoughts on Evangelism
Just a Word on the Predestination versus Free Will Problem
What’s True and What Might Be True
If I Were God, How Would I Run the Universe?
A Note on the God-Man Relationship
What Should Be Our Attitude Toward God?
Ten Thoughts on Politics and the Bible
Rendering Unto Caesar What Is Caesar, and Unto God What Is God’s
Protestant/Catholic and Truth-Seeking
A Good Point by William Gladstone
“Fill in the Blanks” for Self-Improvement
Scripture and Theology from “First Things”
Christmas Thoughts on Jesus’ Coming
Just a Note on Owen Barfield, “Poetic Diction”
What Would Jesus (Habitually) Do?
The R-D Split of the Seven Deadly Sins
Paul, God, and the Lesser Gods
Thoughts on Our Resurrected Psyches
What Is God Doing, and What Is He Like?
Terrific Evangelism Series from Fellowship for Performing Arts
How To Be a Better and Happier Person, in Just 100 Words!
Keeping the Top Two Commandments
Trade-Last and Christian Living
Evangelism Pep Talk for the Month
Advent Thought: Did It Make Sense for Jesus To Come?
How Jesus Taught, How Jesus Died