May 2020 – A Miscellany of Matt

Recommendations for the New Language Learner

September 22, 2020May 16, 2020 by themattmcguire

My Experience Since graduating high school, foreign language learning has been a constant love of mine. Before going to university, I entered a gap year program at a Bible school in Argentina, where I joined a group of 20-or-so Americans in the midst of a 400-student campus. The experience was unforgettable and I left with … Read more

Introduction

May 16, 2020 by themattmcguire

Welcome to my postage stamp of the blogosphere. I am a mid-20’s Mainer, married with children, and interested in all things Christianity. I grew up in the IFB movement, and have crossed paths with myriad other traditions of my faith, some more directly than others. I have been through the whole gambit of Sunday School, … Read more

Recent Book Reviews

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Remnant: Rescue of the Elect

by Brian Godawa

I thoroughly enjoyed this sequel novel, even more than I did the first one. Brian Godawa's research into the historical and theological background of the events of the Jewish Revolt and the eventual sacking of Jerusalem in the first cent...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

A classic adventure. There's not much to say that hasn't already been said about this book. A quintessential light-hearted adventure that--though at times campy--does not disappoint to entertain.

Out of the Silent Planet

by C.S. Lewis

Quite readable and enjoyable. I left this book with a new appreciation for the heavens, not as a desolate place, but as a magical, luminous realm under the domain of its Maker. As others have mentioned, some of the scientific elements a...

The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government

The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government

by Matthew J. Trewhella

Sorely needed in the era of spineless evangelicalism that has adopted pietism as if there existed no alternative within Christian orthodoxy. Trewhella does a nice job both summarizing and defending the historical doctrine of lesser magis...

Tyrant: Rise of the Beast

by Brian Godawa

As someone who is highly studied in 1st century Palestine & Rome, as well as early Christianity, this book was more than a "goodie bag" for theology nerds. It was a treasure trove expositing the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ from the Preter...

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