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January 27, 2016  David Murray   1 comment

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Having Trouble in Ministry? Just Face it. Literally
“I remember a particular ‘green’ moment in my first year of full-time ministry when I asked the guys during a staff meeting (this was about 4 months in), ‘Is it always like this?’ To which they lovingly responded, ‘It is Mach IV with your hair on fire. Buckle up. Heaven will be great.’ This was during a particularly tumultuous time, but it has nevertheless characterized ministry. Those of you who are in ministry know what I am talking about.”

Yes, Your Pastor Needs a Sabbatical
“Focused, intentional rest doesn’t come easy, because we have become addicted to productivity. Our inability to faithfully rest is due to a number of things, yet at the top of the list is an unhealthy drive to perform, control, and produce. The affects are that we can slowly begin to forget that God can keep things going without us.”

30 Pieces of Advice for the New Wife
This sweet post is from a 3-month-old wife. If you’ve been married for more than a few years or have kids, you’ll have a good laugh at the beautiful ideals!

Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth About God (Coming Soon!)
An upcoming book from Tim Challies and Josh Byers. “In this book, we have made the deepest truths of the Bible accessible in a way that can be seen and understood by a visual generation. We have prepared what we see as a theology of the Christian life, a book that explains the ‘now what?’ of living as a Christian. It is ideal for the new or seasoned believer.”

The Great Ebook Battle of 2016
Ebooks or print? Which do you prefer?

Handwriting Helps You Learn – Business Insider
“Typing is fast. Handwriting is slow. Weirdly, that’s precisely why handwriting is better suited to learning.”

Kindle Books


Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds by Jen Wilkin ($4.99)


The Pastor’s Family: Shepherding Your Family through the Challenges of Pastoral Ministry by Brian and Cara Croft ($3.99)


The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism by D. A. Carson ($3.99)


A Place for Weakness: Preparing Yourself for Suffering
by Michael S. Horton ($3.99)

New Children’s Book


God’s Servant Job: A Poem with a Promise by Douglas Bond ($4.99 Kindle, $9.99 Paperback)

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  • Davidathome

    The main problem with ebooks for me, and no doubt for huge numbers of people, is that they are much more difficult to `quickly get to the heart of’.
    This is related to Michael Hyatt’s point “Ebooks are more difficult to navigate”, but many gloss over what I feel is the main issue. Namely, when one cracks a new book, particularly a nonfiction work, and particularly if one reads a lot of books, one wishes to quickly get some visceral `knowledge’ over it; know basically what its `all about’ at a heart level. With a print book this happens rather quickly. The `nonlinear’ and multidimensional old-fashioned jump-around, plus flip/skim, is far far more efficient at this than the clunky ‘linear’ variant of skimming one does with an e-book, where one largely is doing a variant of scrolling forward along a line. As Michael Kozlowski says, “imagine if Google Maps allowed people to navigate street by individual street, as well as to teleport to any specific address, but prevented them from zooming out to see a neighborhood” [or sector of a city].

    This decrease in efficiency and increase in difficulty is an obstacle that in practice means that very many books suddenly become much less likely of ever being read.

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