Jake

Elaborates on how relational experiences affect our understanding of God. Hall refers to a lot of data to explain his points. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in learning about the importance of relationships and enjoys psychology.

almost as if the storyline was taken from an anime love story.

a holistic view on the implications of Christ's birth. I'll be reading this book next Christmas for sure.

I just might be a potterhead now.

A small and powerful writing. Highlights the overarching fact that fulfillment does not come from ourselves and how we arrange our lives - but from making every decision void of ourselves and fully centered on Jesus Christ.

This man has only encouraged me to learn from Jesus. So thankful for his ministry here on earth.

Pretty fun read. The ending bumped my rating to 4 stars.

This book was really helpful. It gave me a framework to understand the gradual changes of western culture from the days of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the modern day.

This is a history book for the most part. Trueman does offer some reflection and insight in his conclusion, as well as three points of advice to the Church on how to navigate being a Christian in the modern west.

He also made a suggestion that stuck with me: the Church in the west should learn from the 2nd Century Church, since that was, in his POV, a time where people had to actively make a choice to be a Christian, which was an odd thing in the surrounding culture at that time.

I'd recommend anyone to read it.

Rated 4 stars because it was quite challenging to read at some points.

Gives a great framework for understanding how faith in the West migrated to a private value rather than being both a private and public value. This book argues that a christian cannot live his life privately, and is called to engage with the world. Newbigin's suggestions to do this were helpful.

I noticed this book is much more violent than the previous books in the series. Felt excessive. Other than that, I enjoyed the intersecting plots.

Favorite quote: “Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”

Fun read. Left me thinking about the symbolism about the book long after reading it. Looking forward to the movie!

I have gained two new favorite essays by C.S. Lewis: “The Inner Circle” & “On Membership”. I have never heard these topics extrapolated in such a way before. The introduction also gives a glimpse on what kind of person Lewis was like in his daily life, which I found to be quite nice.

“Nature's beauteous form
Contains a lovely essence
Called by some - decay.
By this lovey presence
New life finds its way.
Tears shed silently
Are but water of the soul:
They bring new life
To the pain of being -
A separation from that seeing
Which death makes whole.”
- Ancient song, Leto II, Children of Dune