On My Bedside Table is a book review series that wants to make sure that the best books are read over and over again. Find out more about the series here. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Matt Parker (2014) “If someone works in math research, they’re not...
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Deep Work: Thinking, Uninterrupted | On My Bedside Table #2
On My Bedside Table is a book review series that wants to make sure that the best books are read over and over again. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport (2016) Try this exercise: Calculate how many minutes, or seconds, between now...
Total Truth | On My Bedside Table #1
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, Nancy Pearcey (2004). It’s not a difficult book, but it does deal with abstracts that lie at the foundation of culture and society. This is why I keep coming back to re-read this work by philosopher and...
Pitfalls #8: Halfway There.
They were heading towards a new life in the United States of America. For many, it was the beginning of a journey to reach their desires of wealth, honour and ease. In 1912, 2,224 emigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe boarded the...
On My Bedside Table : An Introduction.
Though God’s Word should be the main focus of our diet, since it alone can satisfy the soul, wider reading can still teach us something in our spiritual walk. We want to find books that expand our hearts and minds, that challenge us to think in ways we’ve never thought before and that help us better make Jesus first, best and last.
Pitfalls #7: Called to be Burden-Bearers
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad. (Proverbs 12:25) There is many a brave soul sorely pressed by temptation almost ready to faint in the conflict of self and with the power of evil. Do not discourage such a one in his hard...
Pitfalls #6: An Intellectual Religion?
“Many accept an intellectual religion, a form of godliness, when the heart is not cleansed”SC 35. I grew up in a home with a Mum who some people refer to as the ‘eternal student’. She finished secondary school when she was about 19 years old. Shortly after she met my...
Pitfalls #5: Self-Sufficiency
“Many have an idea that they must do some part of the work alone.” Steps to Christ, 69. A friend once told me: “If you really aren’t sure of how much you can do by yourself—without depending on God to sustain you—then stop breathing the air that doesn’t belong to you....
Pitfalls #4: Desiring but Not Deciding
“Many are inquiring, “How am I to make the surrender of myself to God?” Steps to Christ, 47. Have you ever had a picture in your mind of someone you have never met but only heard about, and then you meet the person and they look really different to the way you...
Pitfalls #3: Delaying to Respond to Conviction
The urgent necessity of responding to conviction directly applies to the unconverted heart, to those who have not yet decided to be Christians. But the voice of conviction does not cease its work once the soul has decided to accept Christ. The decision to follow...
Pitfalls #2: Not Good Enough
This article is the third in a series entitled " The Traps of Christianity ". In this series the various authors explain the common inconsistencies that Christians or people who wish to be Christians often encounter in their experience. These "traps"...
The Sanctuary and Salvation (Adventism #1)
The doctrine of the heavenly sanctuary is foundational to Seventh-day Adventism. But many Adventists would probably find it hard to explain what practical difference this teaching makes in their lives. Does it indeed make a difference? I would like to share with you...
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