Mission Statement

In classical sacrifices, the people get the good bits, and the gods get the refuse, the bits that would get thrown out otherwise.

Not our God. Leviticus (particularly Leviticus 3) describes the sacrifices that our LORD demanded from His people of Israel. God gets the kidneys, the tail, and all the fat. He gets the prime steak, He gets the best.

Today we do not literally give sacrifices of animals. For us the ultimate sacrifice has been made through our Lord, Christ Jesus. But should always be our ambition to do the same thing - to offer God the best of what we have, to offer Him the fat, and not the smoke and bones.

Monday 13 December 2010

An Incomplete List of Books Read This Year

- Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
- Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope For Northern Uganda's Children (Faith J. H. McDonnell and Grace Akallo)
- Reaching Muslims For Christ (William Saal)
- Dear Sister: Letters of Hope And Encouragement (Gisela Yohannan)
- Light In the Shadow of Jihad (Ravi Zacharius)
- The Poor Will Be Glad: Joining the Revolution to Lift the World Out Of Poverty (Peter Greer & Phil Smith)
- Isobel Kuhn: On the Roof of the World (Janet & Geoff Benge)
- Living In the Light of Eternity (K.P. Yohannan)
- The Worship Driven Life (A.W. Tozer)
- The New Answers Book 3 (Ken Ham)
- Jonathan Goforth: An Open Door In China (Janet & Geoff Benge)
- Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to be Saved? (John Piper)
- Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus Volume Four (Michael L Brown)
- The Ranger's Apprentice 10: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja (John Flanagan)
- Does Your Tongue Need Healing (Derek Prince)
- The Perilous Gard (Elizabeth Marie Pope)
- Already Gone (Ken Ham & Britt Beemer)
- George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans (Janet & Geoff Benge)
- Escape From Reason (Francis Schaeffer)
- Gladys Aylward: THe Adventure of A Lifetime (Janet & Geoff Benge)
- The Islamic Anti-Christ: The Shocking Truth About the True Nature of the Beast (Joel Richardson)
- Authentic Beauty (Leslie Ludy)
- The Mark of the Christian (Francis Schaeffer)
- School Education (Charlotte Mason)
- Parents and Children (Charlotte Mason)
- Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil (Lee Hammond)
- Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream(David Platt)
- Strengthen Yourself In The Lord (Bill Johnson)
- The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Draw Real People (Lee Hammond)
- Basic Documents in Medieval History (Norton Downs)
- Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
- Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
- The Pastor's Wife (Sabina Wurmbrand)
- The Cat of Bubastes (G.A. Henty)
- Possessing the Gates of the Enemy (Cindy Jacobs)
- So Much More (Anna-Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin)
- The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (Rodney Stark)
- A Simple Path (Mother Teresa)
- Color (Betty Edwards)
- The Lion Atlas of Bible History (Paul Lawrence)
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption (Chris Adamec)
- Tramp for the Lord (Corrie ten Boom)
- The Innocence of Father Brown (GK Chesterton)
- Extravagant Worship (Darlene Zschech)
- Unwrapping the Pharohs: How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms the Biblical Timeline (John Ashton & David Down)
- Family Religion (Matthew Henry)
- The Hospitality Commands (Alexander Strauch)
- Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor (HFM Prescott)
- The Everlasting Man (GK Chesterton)
- Counterfeit Gods (Timothy Keller)
- Miracles (CS Lewis)
- The Fundamentals volume 2 (of 4) (R.A. Torrey)
- The Fundamentals volume 1 (of 4) (edited R.A. Torrey)
- The Fairy's Return (Gail Carson Levine)
- The Confessions of St Augustine (St Augustine)
- Pierced by the Word: Thirty-One Meditations for Your Soul (John Piper)
- The Great Christian Revolution (Scott & Rushdoony)
- Young Pioneers (Rose WIlder Lane)
- Outcast (Rosemary Sutcliff)
- The Mortification of Sin (John Owen)
- Magic House of Numbers (Irving Adler)
- Jennie (Paul Gallico)
- Your God is Too Small (J.B. Phillips)
- A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael (Elisabeth Elliot)
- The Secret Providence of God (John Calvin)
- Biblical Economics (RC Sproul Jr)
- The Reason for God (Timothy Keller)
- The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum (RJ Rushdoony)
- Into the Mud (Christine Jeske)
- The Life of God in the Soul of Man (Henry Scougal)
- The Christ-Centred Church (A.W. Tozer)
- The Radical Disciple (John Stott)
- Charles Darwin: His Life and Impact (Various)
- The Art of Manfishing (Thomas Boston)
- Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer For Ordinary Radicals (Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
- If (Amy Carmichael)
- Will My Children Go To Heaven (Edward N Gross)
- One Million Arrows (Julie Ferwerda)
- Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: Volume Three (Michael L Brown)
- Scripture By Heart: Devotional Practices for Memorizing God's Word (Joshua Choonmin Kang)
- Sacred Singleness (Leslie Ludy)
- In The Name Of God, Amen (Daniel J Ford)
- Refuting Evolution 2 (Jonathan Sarfati)
- Talent is Overrated: What Really Seperates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (Geoff Colvin)
- Forgotten God: Reversing our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit (Francis Chan)
- Writing With Precision: How to Write So That You Cannot Possibly Be Misunderstood (Jefferson D Bates)
- The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness (Gerald Klickstein)
- The Jungle Book 1 (Ruyard Kipling)
- Outliers: The Story of Success (Malcolm Gladwell)
- A Hunger For God: Desiring God Through Prayer and Fasting (John Piper)
- With the Master On Our Knees (Susan J Heck)
- Crazy Love (Francis Chan)
- Dug Down Deep (Joshua Harris)
- The Pleasures of God (John Piper)
- The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life (Hannah Whitall Smith)
- The Cross of Christ (John Stott)
- Overseas Adoption in Australia: Report on the Inquite into Adoption of Children From Overseas (41st Parliment of the Commonwealth of Australia, Nov 2005)
- Kilmeny of the Orchard (LM Montgomery)
- Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sandition (Jane Austen)
- The Bible Lessons of John Quincy Adams For His Son (Introduction by Doug Phillips)
- The Future of Justification (John Piper)
- God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (John C Lennox)
- The Bronze Bow (Elizabeth George Speare)
- Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything (Edgar Andrews)
- Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend (Ravi Zacharias)
- The Little Boy Down the Road (Douglas W Phillips)
- Mr Midshipman Hornblower (CS Forester)
- Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are (Alex & Brett Harris)
- Holy Discontent (Billy Hybels)
- The Beauty of Modesty: Cultivating Virtue in the Face of a Vulgar Culture (David and Diane Vaughan)
- The Brain that Changes Itself (Norman Doidge)
- Frightful's Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
- Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan & Sarah Edwards (Elisabeth D. Dodds)
- My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)
- God's Prayer Book: The Power and Pleasure of Praying the Psalms (Ben Patterson)
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith)
- Spirit Controlled Living (Clark Cothern)
- Christ and His People In the Book of Isaiah (David Peterson)
- Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: Volume Two (Michael L Brown)
- A Shepherd Looks at The Good Shepherd (Phillip Keller)
- The Power of Words and the Wonder of God (John Piper and Justin Taylor)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (William Kamkwamba)
- Adopted for Life (Russell D Moore)
- The Holiness of God (RC Sproul)
- God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America (Hanna Rosin)
- With Christ in the School of Prayer (Andrew Murray)
- The Golden Goblet (Eloise Jarvis McGraw)
- What's the Difference: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible (John Piper)
- Hell's Best-Kept Secret (Ray Comfort)
- Another Man's War (Sam Childers)
- The Essential Adoption Handbook. (Colleen Alexander-Roberts)
- My Friend Flicka (Mary O'Hara)
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