The Return

Review: Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth about God Tim Challies and Josh Byers Zondervan 2016 Interesting concept book.   I’ve not seen anything quite like it elsewhere and suspect that for some this one would be quite helpful.   And that is why I find myself in a love/hate quandary over this one.   Challies narratives present the 101 theology basics to the reader.   The last section Live for Christ being the best of the lot as far as readability goes.   The others are the reason theology has such an uphill climb with most people.   Accurate, factual, categorized.   Dry as the bones Elijah saw in the desert.   The same ones that as they acquired meat and sinew and skin came to life.   Theology is just one of those areas that need more than skeletons to make it palatable.      Challies, to his credit, says as much in his introduction.   It takes more than looking at the equipment in th...

Review: Restore my Soul: A Coloring Book Devotional Journey Ann-Margaret Hovsepian Momentum 2016 Review a coloring book? Look a bit closer at the full title and this is also a devotional book.   I think I’m beginning to understand the coloring book thing more than I have before.   And I think it’s a good idea.   It’s not some idle waste of time.   Away with all those 30 second devotions!   Be gone those 15 minutes with God books!   These are a step toward a devotional time that matters.   Unless you can color bunches faster than I can, of course.   These force you to sit still for much longer than 15 minutes and during that time what goes through your head? They may even take a couple of days to complete.   Eventually after the “Do I use orange or yellow here?” questions drift away the devotion you read on the opposite page begins to echo in your thoughts.   Now you’re getting somewhere.   All those you’s in the bit...