Life Wrestling: Book Review: Reasons of the Heart by William Edgar

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Book Review: Reasons of the Heart by William Edgar

Reasons of the Heart

Part One: Foundations
1. Today's Unusual Opportunity
2. Beyond Cheap Impact
3. Apostolic Apology
4. The Larger Biblical Mandate
5. A Rich Palette

Part Two: Conversations
6. Initial Barriers
7. Beyond Belief
8. One Way? No Way?
9. The Great Outrage
10. Faith on Its Way to Assurance

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Books I've read ...

A Scandalous Freedom (Steve Brown)
A Tale of Two Sons (John MacArthur)
Art & the Bible (Francis Schaeffer)
Biblical Eldership (Alexander Strauch)
CrossTalk - Where Life and Scripture Meet (Mike Emlet)
Darwin's Black Box (Michael Behe)
Death By Love (Mark Driscoll)
Debating Calvinism (Hunt & White)
Desiring God (John Piper)
Evidence That Demands A Verdict (Josh McDowell)
Fool's Gold (John MacArthur)
God in the Pits (Mark Ritchie)
Hard to Believe (John MacArthur)
Holiness By Grace (Bryan Chapell)
How People Change (Tim Lane)
How To Talk So People Will Listen (Steve Brown)
Humility (CJ Mahaney)
Instruments in the Hands of the Redeemer (Paul Tripp)
Is Christianity Good for the World? (Hitchens and Wilson)
Know What you Believe (Paul Little)
Know Why You Believe (Paul Little)
Lost in America (Tom Clegg)
Lost in the Middle (Paul Tripp)
Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
More Than A Carpenter (Josh McDowell)
Preaching That Changes Lives (Michael Fabarez)
Prophetic Untimeliness (Os Guiness)
Reasons of the Heart (William Edgar)
Religion Saves ... (Mark Driscoll)
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (John Piper)
Simple Church (Rainer and Geiger)
Sinners in the Hands of a Good God (David Clotfelter)
Spiritual Leadership (J. Oswald Sanders)
Symphonic Theology (Vern Poythress)
The Battle for the Beginning (John MacArthur)
The Christian Faith in the Modern World (J Gresham Machen)
The Dispensational-Covenantal Rift (R. Todd Mangum)
The Grace Awakening (Charles Swindoll)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis)
The Parables of Jesus (James Boice)
The Prodigal God (Tim Keller)
The Reason for God (Tim Keller)
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Mark Noll)
The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)
The Sovereignty of God (A.W. Pink)
What A Way To Live! (Tony Evans)
What Was I Thinking? (Steve Brown)
When Sinners Say "I Do" (Dave Harvey)
Whiter than Snow (Paul Tripp)
Why Men Hate Going to Church (David Murrow)

Quotes

"I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Part of genuine repentence is having the desire to remain with the one offended" - John MacArthur
"Preparing a sermon is like cooking a meal. You need pots and pans and utensils, but you don't bring them out to the table where people are eating." - Derek Thomas
"Talking to your friends about Jesus because you want them to know Jesus is good; but have you ever considered talking to them about Jesus because you felt that Jesus deserves their praise?" - unknown
"The problem is not simply pain, that we feel pain, or that some pain is too much - but that we find so little meaning in some pain. Anguish is is the concomitant of meaningless pain. It divides the pain of childbirth from the pain of cancer" - Thomas Naylor ==> Christian, do you have an answer for him?
The only way in which a state-controlled school can be kept even relatively healthy is through the absolutely free possibility of competition by private schools and church schools; if it once becomes monopolistic, it is the most effective engine of tyranny and intellectual stagnation that has yet been devised. (J. Gresham Machen: Selected Shorter Writings, 167)