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Book News: My next book, Rethink Your Self: The Power of Looking Up Before Looking In, will be available on October 20. If you’d like to begin reading it right now, the best way to do so is to preorder it at one of the online retail stores listed on the Rethink Your Self website. Then, you can redeem your receipt by filling out this form, and B&H will send you a link so you can begin reading the eBook via NetGalley. You’ll also be entered to win a collection of my favorite books.

Why pre-order? Pre-ordering shows retailers the level of interest in a book and it gives them guidance in how much they “stock up,” which then impacts the number of people who are likely to come across the book. If you know you’re likely to read this book, please preorder now. It helps authors like me get our message in front of more people who might benefit from it. Thank you!

New review: On another book note, here is a good and fair review of my book Eschatological Discipleship in the newest Themelios journal. Thank you to Tony Payne in Australia for reading and reviewing.

Podcast Pick: This week’s pick goes to Mere Fidelity’s fantastic discussion on “Joy and the Task of Theology,” where the hosts discuss polemics, debate, joy, and theology as a creative re-articulation of the truth.

Kindle Deal: Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God by Rankin Wilbourne. $1.99.

Seven of the best articles I came across this week:

1. Brett McCracken – Are Churches Losing the Battle to Form Christians? One of the most important questions pastors should be considering these days.

2. Abigail Dodds – Woe Is Me: The Sin of Self-Pity and How to Be Free. Strong word here on the sin of self-pity. “Rather than crying out to God in our big and small moments of distress, self-pity would have us whimper in the misery of our own hearts.”

3. Taylor Combs – What Do You Mean You “Love” God? Good reflection here on C. S. Lewis and three kinds of love for God: need-love, gift-love, and appreciative-love.

4. Joy Clarkson – Against Textbooks: Why We Need Bigger Stories. I think textbooks can be great, but there’s a lot to say for introducing kids to primary texts. The latter are more important and more formative than the former. Along the lines of education, read Carina Chocano – What is MasterClass Actually Selling? Interesting article on the rise of MasterClass and why these courses have become so popular in this moment.

5. Gavin Ortlund – 5 Books to Read by Church FathersIf you want to start reading five key books from early church fathers, check out these suggestions from Gavin Ortlund. If you want to get larger doses from a variety of the early church fathers, I can’t recommend enough the Ancient-Faith Study Bible

6. Hunter Baker – The End of Liberal Democracy: Constitutionalism Without Christian Humanism. “Democracy depends upon more than acknowledging that man is the kind of creature that may deserve the opportunity to participate in governing. The ability to participate is important as well.”

7. Amanda Petrusich – The Addictive Joy of Watching Someone Listen to Phil Collins. What if there is a song you have never heard before that could still topple you? Maybe it’s out there, waiting, the twins suggest—just keep listening.

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