Takeaway: I do not know any book that takes the reading, study and importance of scripture more seriously than this book.
Normally I do not read a book so quickly after I read it the first time. But I am going backpacking next week, and the group decided to read two books in advance so we can discuss them as we are hiking. This group of guys has been going on a trip together since spring of 1995 (17 trips total). We are all in quite different places since we started, we have all graduated from college, completed 5 masters degrees, a PhD and an MD between the six of us. We are all now married and have 16 children between us. We now live outside of Chicago, Toronto, Paris, Minneapolis, Atlanta and Dallas. We work as a nanny, a family practice doctor, a Hebrew/Old Testament professor, a missionary, a trader and a computer consultant for an HR firm.
Takeaway: Learning scripture from a variety of teachers is important.
Takeaway: Technology is shaped by its human creators, but also in turn shapes its human users. (This is the book I have been searching for on Technology and Christianity.)
Takeaway: Communication is the center of marriage. Almost everything, both good and bad, is a result of communicating with our spouse.
Takeaway: The overall point, that Jesus plus anything else is no longer the Gospel, is right. But his method of dismissing most of scripture, including much of Jesus’ own teaching, makes it so I am hesitant to recommend it.
Takeaway: The search for who Jesus is, is important for every generation, not because Jesus changes, but because we do.