2012: My Book List
Year in Review, part 2. I did not quite hit the 50-book target in 2012, but I'm happy with 45. This is the filtered list of books I read, separated into four tiers, the first one being super-duper-highly recommended. First tier Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller...
Book Review: Every Good Endeavor
Timothy Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, Dutton Adult, 2012. I daresay that Every Good Endeavor is my favorite book this year. That’s #1 out of 40-something books I’ve read. If you could hear my mind while reading, you would...
How To Have the Most Fun at GYC
Or at least, my take on it. When I first started coming to GYC, I would remember every message, every speaker, and every conviction felt during each session. I would even remember who sang which special music for which evening. I learned so many new things, heard so...
The Transcendent Being
Philosophy objectifies its themes. Imagination creates an image, reason coins a concept. All conceptualization is limitation, restriction, reduction. In the question, What is the cause of being? the ultimate has been restricted to one aspect, to one category. "Cause"...
The Nerd That I Am
So Goodreads is telling me I’m behind in my 2012 reading target – 16% behind, to be precise – and I don’t like it one bit. Plus, it’s December already! Since I’m an engineer, I can’t help obsessing about numbers. My target for the year is to read 50 books. I finished...
The Education of Jesus Christ
When mankind sinned, we are all enrolled in the school of suffering. And marvelously, in the Divine Mind, the education of Jesus Christ was also to be done in the same school.
The One That Tops The List
This Is My Story, part 9, the Finale. This day, thirteen years ago, marked the beginning of my publicly declared and lifelong commitment to follow that lovely Man whose likeness cannot compare to any other. Did I know inside out what that commitment would entail, or...
Blood Is Thicker Than Wine
This Is My Story, Part 8 What better way to spend time waiting for my siblings’ flight to land than to be thankful for them. This Thanksgiving holiday, the Elia’s are reuniting in DC (awesome), and it will be uber fun! My siblings and I are pretty close in years. As a...
Teach Me To Dream
This Is My Story, part 7 If you asked me during my early college years what I wanted to do when I grew up, I’d tell you: to be an ordinary, good person. You know, do good things in life, graduate, work, get married, have a family, et cetera. I once asked my...