List of books I have pulled from there so far (after three weeks!):
- The Meaning of the Millenium: Four Views - Robert Clouse
- Dialogical Apologetics: A Person-Centered Approach to Christian Defense - David K. Clark
- Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer
- The Communicator's Commentary: Acts - Larry J. Oglivie
- The Communicator's Commentary: 1, 2 Thessalonians; 1,2 Timothy; Titus - Gary Demarest
- Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life - Robert Calhoun
- Reasons for Faith - John Gerstner
- The Essential Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson
- The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book - Bill Watterson
- The Second Coming: Signs of Christ's Return at the End of the Age - John Macarthur
- The Little Flowers of St. Francis - Raphael Brown
- Francis A. Schaeffer: Portraits of a Man and His Work - Lane T. Dennis
I think you'll notice too that you can even find Calvin and Hobbes! Something that I am beginning to realize is integral to the sanity of any serious student (I must laugh or I tend to degrade into gray unfeeling clouds every day!)
So, thanks Graeme for all the recommends to this place and if all of the rest of you aren't in yet YOU SHOULD BE!
Praising God in All Things!
R. D. Thompson
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So Far:
::Berry, Wendall - Selected Poems
::Boice, James – Christ’s Call to Discipleship
::Bonhoeffer, Dietrich – Life Together
::Bruce, F.F. – The Gospels and Epistles of John
::Carson, D.A. - Exegetical Fallacies
::Carson, D.A. - The KJV Debate
::Chesterton, G.K. – The Father Brown Stories
::Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs, and Steel
::Gurnal, William – The Christian in Complete Armour
::Harris, Joshua - Stop Dating the Church
::Harris, Joshua – I Kissed Dating Goodbye
::Hastings, James – The Christian Doctrine of Faith
::Ironside, H.A. – Unless You Repent
::Johnstone, Patrick – Operation World
::Krakauer, John – Into The Wild
::Lloyd-Jones, Martyn - The Cross
::Lloyd Jones, Martyn - Spiritual Depression
::Lloyd Jones, Martyn - Joy Unspeakable
::MacArthur, John – Faith Works
::MacArthur, John – Safe In The Arms Of God
::MacArthur, John – Hard To Believe
::MacArthur, John – The Gospel According to Jesus
::MacArthur, John – Why One Way?
::Macdonald, George – Phantastes
::Maine, David – Fallen
::Maine, David – The Preservationist
::McCullers, Carson – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
::McCullough, David - 1776
::Montgomery, L.M. – Anne Of Green Gables
::Murray, Iain - Jonathan Edwards
::Peace, Martha – The Excellent Wife
::Peterson, Robert – Hell On Trial
::Packer, J.I. – Growing In Christ
::Packer, J.I. – God’s Plans For You
::Packer, J.I. – Knowing God
::Packer, J.I. – Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
::Pink, A.W – Eternal Security
::Pink, A.W – The Sovereignty of God
::Piper, John - The Pleasures of God
::Piper, John - Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
::Piper, John - Brothers, We are Not Professionals
::Reisinger, Ernest – Today’s Evangelism
::Ryle, J.C. – Warning to the Churches
::Ryle, J.C. – Assurance
::Schaeffer, Francis – The Great Evangelical Disaster
::Schneider, Floyd – Evangelism For the Faint Hearted
::Steinbeck, John – East of Eden
::Taylor, Howard – Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret
::Vonnegut, Kurt – The Slaughterhouse Five
::Watson, Thomas – A Body of Divinity
::Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
::Warren, Rick – The Purpose Driven Life
::Williams, Charles –All Hallows Eve
My favorite is how you got Watson's BOD. Wow...sweet book to get from PBS. This wishlist thingie is NOT working out so well for me.
Takes quite a while.
How does one do this if all of his present books are ones he wishes to keep?
Man, Graeme has scored some good books. I fully intend to swap from both of your libraries, though I will happily return the books.
By the way, Ryan, it would be a great service to the community if you would type up a "super-list" of all 1000+ books you have, or at least the ones I want to borrow. That would be a nice project for a lazy Sunday.
I believe I've read every Calvin & Hobbes strip Waterson published. They were the bread of my early reading and mental development, beginning at six or seven years old. They are in many ways the best explanation of my humor, and, one might argue, primed me to be a Calvinist. However, in a spree of conversion zeal I destroyed my "Anthologie", the three volume collection of the whole series, because I didn't want to waste time laughing at Calvin's macabre sense of humor. It was something like the Ephesians burning their magic books, minus the occult. Now I can accept a place for moderated enjoyment of the positive strips.
of course yoiu actually have to have books to swap in order to participate...
Spottsy,
You make me laugh :) Is it bad that I um...still enjoy laughing at Calvin's macabre sense of humor? I actually think there is a place for it and for sarcasm. Hence, Calvin and Hobbes.
Anna,
I suppose it spaced my mind how people could NOT have books to trade.
To all,
This is very easy. You don't have to swap books you actually LIKE. I go to goodwill and cheap-o used bookstores, find any decent books (most of which cost between a quarter and a dollar) and swap THEM. OR I swap any books I have doubles of.
Used religious titles go like a hot cake. I swapped out a cook-book and also a travel guide for Maine (Goodwill) and my double of the Catholic Cathechism (and a whole bunch of other doubles). Seriously, this works.
I mean, I got John Gerstner's out of print "Reason's for Faith" for a Maine travel guide? No complaints there.
Some books don't go though. Knowing what will go and what won't just comes with time I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK65Jfny70Y
Ryan wrote,
"Used religious titles go like a hot cake. I swapped out ... my double of the Catholic Cathechism (and a whole bunch of other doubles). Seriously, this works."
Is that anything like trading illicit drugs for rolls of cash? I suppose we are not responsible for what they do with the books, but I'd prefer to burn most heretical literature if not being used by someone as a reference to depose it.
As for the place of the macabre in humor, in my judgment it tends to an unhealthy hardness of conscience towards the concepts of suffering and evil. For instance, when the character imagines his elementary school being obliterated in an aerial assault (by T'Rex's in fighter jets) Waterson nonetheless seeks to extract laughter from the far fetched but literally murderous intentions of the child toward his fellows. I must ask myself, does Christ on His throne join in laughing at such a lighthearted treatment of murder or death? In my opinion He does not. This is not an indictment against all humor, but is a withdrawal from and protest against the misuse of certain concepts in order to derive a perverse gratification. I think the same of other genres which negate gravity, purity, and mercy, such as Ultimate Fighting, etc.
Call me a Puritan... and I'll accept the title, though I am not worthy. ;)
As for respecting your difference of opinion, I am willing to acknowledge that the Lord was not immediate in bringing me to this position and I cannot judge another person's motivation or source of gratification in all of what he reads. "Whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God."
By the way, I share your need for lighthearted reading to let off the weight of my other studies. Presently I am reading R. M. Ballantyne's "Coral Island" and am loving it. Children's books can be a real treat.
Dude.
Arthur Ransome is one of my fave's to lighten the load. You should give him a check out if you like children's for a break.
Foxtrot's a top one for me too.
I'll give it a thought though I doubt I will come to a different conviction :)
I'm such a drug runner.
make a new blog already.
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