A WHOLE MAN

This week we will complete "What Happened in the Garden". If you have not already ordered teh next book, may I encourage you to quickly do so. We begin "A Hunger For God: Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer" next week. If you ever have any questions or suggestions for books, movies or topic discussions, please send me an e-mail at overflowblog@outlook.com. Recommended Reading: Chapters 12- Conclusion (Pages 273-302) Total page count excluding chapter bibliographies: ~25 pages Key Quotes: Chapter 12: "Christian students desire more than just training for a career and a life of self-promotion… They want to be equipped for a life of enduring commitment to Christ and instructed to think like Christ, value like Christ, and serve as Christ has called them to serve in the home, church, academy, community, and marketplace." (280) "People often think that education is the solution to the world's problems. But we know better, and that is why Genesis...

This week we continue our online Book Club book and as always if you ever have any questions or suggestions for books, movies or topic discussions, please send me an e-mail at overflowblog@outlook.com. Recommended Reading: Chapters 10-11 (Pages 221-272) Total page count excluding chapter bibliographies: ~43 pages Key Quotes: Chapter 10: "To really help people grow and change, we must help them get to the deepest disorders. Humans do not just have personality disorders, they have worship disorders." (230) "…if false worship is the problem, then true worship is the solution." (235) "Because of what I believe about the Fall and how it has impacted our bodies, and because brain research is a relatively new and developing field of science, I am confident there are yet to be discovered diseases that are influencing behavior and the inner person. To say they are influencing is not to say they are causing behavior, though." (238, authors emphasis) Chapter 11: ...

This week we continue our online Book Club book and as always if you ever have any questions or suggestions for books, movies or topic discussions, please send me an e-mail at overflowblog@outlook.com. Recommended Reading: Chapters 7-9 (Pages 175-220) Total page count excluding chapter bibliographies: ~40 pages Key Quotes: Chapter 7: "In a 'good world' we would expect good things to happen if the environment was left to itself…In a dualistic world, we would expect both good and bad things to happen simultaneously and with equal frequency." (176) "If the world were perfect, the outcomes would be perfect; control would be unnecessary…In a sinful world, 'protection' from sin must be afforded. Attempts at protection constitute control." (182) Chapter 8: "Cause and effect is the foundation of the scientific method. If certain causes did not produce certain effects, then a rational study of the universe would be impossible." (189) ...

This week we continue our online Book Club book and as always if you ever have any questions or suggestions for books, movies or topic discussions, please send me an e-mail at overflowblog@outlook.com . Recommended Reading: Chapters 4-6 (Pages 101-172) Total page count excluding chapter bibliographies: ~62 pages Key Quotes: Chapter 4: "Genesis 3 is the story that tells you how you came to be so unable to read the story being told…If you have ever wondered why there are so many varying -- and opposed-- interpretations of Genesis 3, I would like to suggest to you that Genesis 3 is not the problem. It is the explanation." (103) "Man is incurvatus in se - curved inward into himself. We are unable so see accurately beyond ourselves, to really see either God or His world. All we see is ourselves; our view is selfish in every sense." (110) Chapter 5: "Every individual is a part of the 'mass of sin' or 'mass of damnation' in Adam until cut off and u...

This week we begin the very first online Book Club book and I hope that you are just as excited as I am. If you are wondering what it is that I am talking about, check out this introductory article: Read Me . If you are wondering how it is that I came to choose this book well it's very simple, I just chose the next book in my list of books to read (currently sitting at ~20 books). I am super excited for those who will be reading along in the present or the future, please feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me at overflowblog@outlook.com . Recommended Reading: Introduction- Chapter 3 (up to page 100) Total page count excluding chapter bibliographies: ~70 pages Key Quotes:  Introduction: "What would change when you reinterpret the opening chapters of Genesis? In a word: everything" (pg. 13) Chapter 1: "False teachers are those who twist the Scripture to their own destruction…This should spur us on to take another serious look at the text and to make sure ...