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Booknote: My Year in Books (2018)
When I finish a book, I add it to my annual “books read” list. My 2018 list is at the end of this post.
I don’t have a detailed reading plan – I select books based on interest and recommendations. I also use commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and systematic theologies as I prepare two weekly sermons and one Bible lecture. Since I seldom read these cover-to-cover, I don’t include them in the list. 2018 was spent in Romans, Exodus, 1 Timothy, and a December morning and evening series in Isaiah.
What follows are some of my 2018 reading highlights. Several of my comments come from booknotes I wrote earlier in the year.
Every year, I read a few substantial volumes in theology. This year I returned to the four books that comprise Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. I found David Calhoun’s Knowing God and Ourselves an extraordinarily helpful companion volume, one that lives up to its subtitle: “Reading Calvin’s Institutes Devotionally.” Each chapter identifies the section of the Institutes to be read, along with scripture texts, prayers of Calvin, hymns, references to Calvin’s other works, and observations from numerous Calvin scholars. If you’ve never rea
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Finnish Sniper Simo Häyhä
By Ronald Anderson
The 1939 war between Finland and Soviet Russia has been a minor inclusion in most histories of World War II. In terms of human resolution and fortitude, though, few battles in military history can compete with the dogged determination of a tiny country of 4 million going head-to-head with a giant neighbor with 150 million citizens.
If the orders of battle for both countries in the Winter War of 1939-1940 were analyzed prior to the onset of hostilities, the analysts would have most likely told Finland, “You don’t stand a chance!” Everyone would have judged such a contest to be a lost cause that should be avoided through capitulation. Everyone but the Finns, that is.
In the end, the desire to remain a free and independent nation drove Finland to mount a successful resistance against a vastly superior foe. The Russo-Finnish War, or “Winter War,” provides stories of savage battles fought with great heroism, stories of Finnish ski troops, acts of bravery in unfathomable weather conditions, and the never-say-die attitude that will inspire generations to come, the world over.
Finland had only gained her independence from Russia in 1917-1920 resulting from developments in World War I. She lived a shaky existence as a free nation unti