What are you reading?

[Laura]

(05-04-2012 06:32 AM)CKG Wrote:  Some years back a friend gave me some books by Schaeffer, but I gave up on them when I found myself having to continously go to the dictionary to define a lot of the words he was using. I guess I better stick to the 9th grade level books.

You and me both. I tried reading "How Shall We Then Live" a few years ago and it was over my head, although "A Christian Manifesto" made a bit more sense to me.

[William]

(05-04-2012 07:35 AM)Laura Wrote:  The mountain is. When i hear the name, I think of the old tune by The Country Gentlemen (bluegrass group).

In the book, it's the name given to a specific geographical area of battle.

Yes. In a mountainous region of Vietnam, the soldiers give their different camps names from famous European mountains: Firebase Matterhorn, Firebase Eiger, etc.

Why is everybody haten on Schaeffer? For everyone who reacts like Here Am I or Laura, there's someone who's enormously blessed by his work. Nobody should be scared off by him. As for having to use the dictionary frequently, what's the matter with that? As KJB peeps, don't we do a lot of that anyway?

[Bibelleauwer]

(05-04-2012 07:35 AM)Laura Wrote:  

(05-04-2012 06:06 AM)Bibelleauwer Wrote:  ??? The Matterhorn is in Switzerland.... not in Vietnam

The mountain is. When i hear the name, I think of the old tune by The Country Gentlemen (bluegrass group).

In the book, it's the name given to a specific geographical area of battle.

When I hear the name I remember a holiday when my parents still were together and I was walking in the snow of that mountian in my flipflops about 7, 8 or 9 years of age sweet dear memories.

[CKG]

(05-04-2012 08:54 AM)William Wrote:  

(05-04-2012 07:35 AM)Laura Wrote:  The mountain is. When i hear the name, I think of the old tune by The Country Gentlemen (bluegrass group).

In the book, it's the name given to a specific geographical area of battle.

Yes. In a mountainous region of Vietnam, the soldiers give their different camps names from famous European mountains: Firebase Matterhorn, Firebase Eiger, etc.

Why is everybody haten on Schaeffer? For everyone who reacts like Here Am I or Laura, there's someone who's enormously blessed by his work. Nobody should be scared off by him. As for having to use the dictionary frequently, what's the matter with that? As KJB peeps, don't we do a lot of that anyway?

I didn't intend to express dislike for him as much as expressing, for me personally, my lack of comprehension skills. I do use a dictionary in Bible study, but not that often. I was having to consult it with about every paragraph with Schaeffer's books. I have no doubt as to him being a spiritual man, and now haveing been reprimanded , I guess I do owe his books another look at.

[Bibelleauwer]

(05-04-2012 11:18 AM)CKG Wrote:  

(05-04-2012 08:54 AM)William Wrote:  

(05-04-2012 07:35 AM)Laura Wrote:  The mountain is. When i hear the name, I think of the old tune by The Country Gentlemen (bluegrass group).

In the book, it's the name given to a specific geographical area of battle.

Yes. In a mountainous region of Vietnam, the soldiers give their different camps names from famous European mountains: Firebase Matterhorn, Firebase Eiger, etc.

Why is everybody haten on Schaeffer? For everyone who reacts like Here Am I or Laura, there's someone who's enormously blessed by his work. Nobody should be scared off by him. As for having to use the dictionary frequently, what's the matter with that? As KJB peeps, don't we do a lot of that anyway?

I didn't intend to express dislike for him as much as expressing, for me personally, my lack of comprehension skills. I do use a dictionary in Bible study, but not that often. I was having to consult it with about every paragraph with Schaeffer's books. I have no doubt as to him being a spiritual man, and now haveing been reprimanded , I guess I do owe his books another look at.

I too use dictionaries when I read English books and that way my vocabulary grows every time.
I also write the meaning of words , that are unfamiliar to me, above or under the difficult word when needed.
You're not the only one and that way you still learn a lot

[William]

(05-04-2012 11:18 AM)CKG Wrote:  I didn't intend to express dislike for him as much as expressing, for me personally, my lack of comprehension skills. I do use a dictionary in Bible study, but not that often. I was having to consult it with about every paragraph with Schaeffer's books. I have no doubt as to him being a spiritual man, and now haveing been reprimanded , I guess I do owe his books another look at.

No no no, dear brother! I wasn't referring to you; I was halfway teasing Here Am I and Laura. But just as nobody should be scared off by Schaeffer, nobody should feel obligated to read him, either. He's not for everyone. I meant no rebuke at all.

[Here Am I]

And I wasn't trying to say Schaeffer was hard, just the concepts are hard for ME to understand, but I want to!

"A Christian Manifesto" was great, wonderful, 5 star rating!

With "Escape From Reason", I could somewhat grasp what he was trying to say, but did not understand everything, so I'm going to read it again.

Some of us aren't a quick study, like William....