Monday, January 15, 2007
Book 2
due to an unforeseen, and rather malicious in my opinion, book report (definition: irony. . .) My post on Screwtape Letters will be postponed, you can thank Oliver Twist. but I'll turn this into the report when I get a chance to finish both books
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Mere Christianity
by popular demand (VC 1 everyone else 0) I'm posting "book reports" (how I despise that term) on both the books that I'm reading.
Book #1 Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
This book's contents were actually given by Lewis on a radio station in three separate parts Broadcast Talks (1942) Christian Behavior (1943) and Beyond Personality(1944) plus a few additions by the man himself. One of the reasons I like C.S. Lewis is because of his allegories and word pictures. He used a cube to represent the Trinity which taking in the fact that he is using a finite object to describe the inexplicable its a pretty good description (and I like it better than the egg thing). some of my favorite chapters were the chapters on the cardinal (or pivotal) virtues, forgiveness, faith, and charity. I also liked his logical thought process (heh) walking through loving your neighbor as yourself. He also gave a good (and rather funny) reason why many people aren't too fond of Christianity. and why people might resist the best thing that could happen to them, because they think it is the worst thing that could happen to them.
overall this book rates a 'yes' on the Awesome scale
read it
Book #1 Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
This book's contents were actually given by Lewis on a radio station in three separate parts Broadcast Talks (1942) Christian Behavior (1943) and Beyond Personality(1944) plus a few additions by the man himself. One of the reasons I like C.S. Lewis is because of his allegories and word pictures. He used a cube to represent the Trinity which taking in the fact that he is using a finite object to describe the inexplicable its a pretty good description (and I like it better than the egg thing). some of my favorite chapters were the chapters on the cardinal (or pivotal) virtues, forgiveness, faith, and charity. I also liked his logical thought process (heh) walking through loving your neighbor as yourself. He also gave a good (and rather funny) reason why many people aren't too fond of Christianity. and why people might resist the best thing that could happen to them, because they think it is the worst thing that could happen to them.
overall this book rates a 'yes' on the Awesome scale
read it
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Books
I'm reading 2 books, its more like just one, but I read the other occasionally too. I'm not even finished with either of them and I'm gonna recommend them to you. C.S. Lewis wrote both of them, Mere Christianity and Screwtape Letters. He is one of my favorite authors both secular and non secular. I'm not even half way through either of them, but I'm recommending them too you because they're really good. and I also have to give a shout out to the man who gave me both books as a present VC.
Monday, January 01, 2007
2007
kickin off the new year in one of the greatest states in the USA. I spent my Christmas in Houston Texas in other words. we visited both sides of my fam, because they live about 30 minutes apart (pretty handy huh?) but that also meant that if we hadn't sprinted out of each respective house when we did, we would have died from food overdose (if thats possible) we also fired off a veritable barrage of fireworks at each house and I had a "black cat" explode a couple inches from my hand which makes everything more interesting. we brought in the new year with a game of spoons and we watched the ball drop in NY. overall it was pretty sweet
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