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Christmas reading!

The place the puritans do excel at is applying the gospel to all sorts of different life situations!

I still don't get the admiration of the puritans by so many. There are a few that I admire, and in that, particular works. But I don't understand the overall awe for this period like so many have.

One piece of this book I want to be careful with is that the language of lament is used in such a way that it could be understood to be that if I just go through the process of lament, I'll move toward trusting in God. It really is less a process and more a disposition of the heart.

"Jeremiah is drawing from the very center of what he believes. He uses his theology and what he believers as the basis for hope. He dares to hope again."

Theology has always been about hope. The pursuit of it academically is to have a confident understanding of the hope given to us. Never brush off theology as unimportant!

I came out of a period of lament battered and bruised with my faith hanging on by a thread. I saw what I had done wrong and learned from it. So far, this book notes the exact things I learned! Lament is always meant to move us to trusting in God and away from our complaint.

"Much of our contemporary apologetics is timid in its authority, puny in its reach, and limited in its range."

"True apologetics is the art of truth, and its truth must be shaped by the distinctiveness of the truth it proclaims."

There's something about these English Christian philosophers and their joyful confidence in Christian truth that is delightful and makes me want to be the same!

“Those who will go into paid ministry leadership positions are often expected to get a quality theological education. However, in many cases, we don’t expect leaders who are ‘just volunteers’ to obtain the same level of understanding in the Scriptures. This is an incredible problem.”