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  Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue through Our Words Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III IVP Academic ivpress.com ISBN: 9780830854837; December 2020; $22.00   I’m a writer. I have published two books and have a third wandering dejectedly and despondently through the ego crushing wilderness of publisher-hunting at the present. But I also write blog posts that include articles, book reviews, and prayers. I pen a weekly letter to my congregation, I type out emails and replies, and I toil over full sermon manuscripts for two sermons a week. I’m a writer. Therefore, my interest was grabbed when I saw a new book surface, “Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue through Our Words”. This 248-page softback was compiled by Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III, both of whom are associate professors of English at Wheaton College. It is written primarily with college composition and writing courses in mind (it even has a nice piece in the appen...

  The Theology of Jeremiah: The Book, the Man, and the Message John Goldingay IVP Academic ivpress.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-5527-8; January 20201; $22.00   Truly a man of sorrows that Jeremiah. And it just so happened that in my daily devotional reading while I was studying this biblical prophet, out comes a new 160-page paperback by John Goldingay, professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, titled, “The Theology of Jeremiah: The Book, the Man, and the Message”.   I was delighted to delve into Goldingay’s work while reading through Jeremiah. The volume’s arrival was as timely as can be, and very accessible. This is a volume I will refer back to throughout the years.   The manuscript is not a commentary, in the typical sense, but it has a lot to say about the book, the man, and the message! Goldingay breaks his work down into two sections. The first takes the 20,000-foot view, perusing who Jeremiah was, what he did, the connections b...

  We implore your help and governance, Good Lord, for your church throughout the world, for this congregation, and also for East Lake Cumberland Presbyterian Church; Stonegate Presbyterian Church; Immanuel Covenant Church; and Oklahoma Korean Central Presbyterian Church. Oh Lord, we have heard delightful promises today! You are preparing a place, a warm, together-place in the Father’s house, and you stand at the door and welcome us in. And you have made the way for us to be part of your world rescue operation, your world reclamation project. Draw our works into your works. And may our prayers wrap themselves up in your aim that we may see the Father bring those requests to fruition. We plead with you especially and expressly for your church in North America. Preserve us from ourselves; preserve us from amputating ourselves from the essential, directive, life-supporting connection to your Word; preserve us from caving in to the present societal, sexual, and civil storms that are b...