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Jeff is Currently Reading

Jeff Whittum is currently reading

The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

by C.S. Lewis

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Apr 23, 2026 06:36PM

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Chosen By God: Know God's Perfect Plan for His Glory and His Children

by R.C. Sproul

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read in January 2011

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Jan 24, 2026 06:00PM

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The Doctrine of Election (Arthur Pink Collection Book 10)

by Arthur W. Pink

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Book cover for Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small by Mark Batterson

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If you don’t have a dream, get around people who do. You might just catch what they have.

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Jeff’s Quotes

“Change for the sake of change is folly; but equally so is blind, unreasoning subservience to tradition.”
― Robert Shank, Elect in the Son

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“many of us have no patience for pastoral care. Broken bones and minds are not hurry prone.”
― Zack Eswine, The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus

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“In the Christian life, it’s not how you start that matters. It’s how you finish.”
― Steve Farrar, Finishing Strong: Going the Distance for Your Family

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“Rather than the reflective theology of the scholar or classroom, his is a “task theology,” the theologizing that takes place in the marketplace,”
― Gordon D. Fee, Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God

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“Everyone has a theology [that is, some rudimentary view of God and the world on the basis of which they live]; the question is not whether you have a theology—you do—but whether you have a good one.”
― Gordon D. Fee, Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God

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