Each week (give or take one or two here and there) I share three things I like – It could be a book, a movie, a podcast, an album, a photo, an article, a restaurant, a food item, a beverage, or anything else I simply enjoy and think you might too. You can find a whole pile of things, especially books, I like and recommend HERE.
1) Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life by Robert Smith Jr.
I don’t enjoy most of the books on preaching I have read. I mean no disrespect to the wonderful preachers who have written them. It’s just that, very often, what I come away with is someone else’s method and style and it feels like trying to fit into another’s shoes. What Smith offers preachers is not a style or method as much as a paradigm, not a pair of shoes but some counsel on the benefit of shoes in general. If you have heard Robert Smith Jr. preach, you know that his style is inimitable but he knowledge of scripture and his joy in the Lord is infectious. And that is what he shares in these pages. He invites preachers into the depth and breadth and gladness of deeply doctrinal and doxological preaching. He is instructing in how to preach even has exemplifies how to preach. His writing doesn’t just point to worship, it is worshipful. Rather than merely listing and describing methods, he utilizes them to make his writing more compelling. It is a book that sets a high bar for preaching and then encourages the preacher toward reaching it.
2) The Football 100 by The Athletic Staff
The Baseball 1oo, written by Joe Posnanski, is one of my favorite sports books. And while The Football 100 lacks the same flair and fandom that Posnanski brings to his writing, given that it’s written by a team of writers, it is still a really fun book. It ranks the 100 greatest football players of all time (as generally agreed upon by the Athletic’s staff). One of the best aspects is how it helps modern fans understand the greatness of former players in their era–receivers whose numbers pale in comparison to today’s players but who dominated their era, linemen who were iron men before I was born, and so forth. It attempts to navigate the delightful tension of comparing players at different positions in terms of impact and comparative greatness. Whether or not you agree with their conclusions, you will enjoy the exploration of football history and greatness.
3) Adrian Peterson Highlights
Football season is upon us which means there is much to look forward to and much to remember. For Minnesota Vikings fans, this means the highlights of our greatest running back, one of the most dominant to ever do it.
