This post will serve as both an introduction, and an index.
These are not book reviews. There are already plenty of places you can go to find out if a book is worth your time. I recommend starting with Tim Challies. I don’t want to retread what has already been done, and I’m not current enough to be all that useful as a reviewer. What I thought I would do instead is ruminate a little.
To ruminate is literally to “chew over”. It comes from the wonderful world of bovine digestion, where a cow will eat, digest and then bring the half-digested grass up to chew again in order to extract the maximum benefit.
So, these posts will be my bringing back a book I’ve read, posting some of the quotes that I have enjoyed and commenting briefly. It’s an attempt to force myself to really dwell on a book a bit more and read more closely.
I might even say if I think the book is worth your time. But that doesn’t make it a review, honest.
Additions to the series will be chosen largely based on which books I read on Kindle/had a pencil handy at the time. Then to be followed by ones I think are worth rereading anyway. Planned installments in the series so far:
The Imperfect Disciple, Jared Wilson
The Heart of Christ, Thomas Goodwin
All That Is in God, James Dolezal
Joy at the End of the Tether, Doug Wilson
Adorning the Dark, Andrew Peterson
God Rest Ye Merry, Doug Wilson
Rules for Reformers, Doug Wilson
Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton
You Are What You Love, James K. A. Smith
God in the Dark, Os Guinness
None Greater, Matthew Barrett
Destiny, David Gibson
Becoming Worldly Saints, Michael Wittmer
Great Gain of Godliness, Thomas Watson
The Gospel Comes with a House Key, Rosaria Butterfield
The Hole in our Holiness, Kevin DeYoung