The Christian Aspie: Notes from the Blog

With no-holds-barred honesty and poignant storytelling, Nate Larkin introduces a model of community and friendship that is reinvigorating men's ministry across the country, a model he calls The Samson Society. Too many men see the biblical hero Samson as their model for manhood--a rugged individualist of the highest order. Yet, Samson's solitary successes were eventually overcome by moral weaknesses. Larkin, through the story of his own past and the stories of those in The Samson Society, offers a radical, refreshing alternative.

At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What the @#!% is wrong with my husband?! In David Finch’s case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains David’s ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, but it doesn’t make him any easier to live with.

Determined to change, David sets out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband with an endearing yet hilarious zeal. His methods for improving his marriage involve excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies, including “Don’t change the radio station when she’s singing along” and “Apologies do not count when you shout them.” Over the course of two years, David transforms himself from the world’s most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest. He becomes the husband he’d always meant to be.

This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Introduction
Preface
I Following Hard after God
II The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
III Removing the Veil
IV Apprehending God
V The Universal Presence
VI The Speaking Voice
VII The Gaze of the Soul
VIII Restoring the Creator-creature Relation
IX Meekness and Rest
X The Sacrament of Living

About the Author
"AIDEN WILSON TOZER (1897 - 1963) was an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees." -- Wikipedia

Perhaps the most widely read devotional work next to the Bible, this book was first composed in Latin ca.1418-1427. It is a handbook for spiritual life arising from the Devotio Moderna movement, of which Kempis was a member.
No book other than the Bible has been translated into more languages.
The text is composed of four books which provide detailed spiritual instructions: "Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life", "Directives for the Interior Life", "On Interior Consolation" and "On the Blessed Sacrament".
The Imitation is characterized by its emphasis on the interior life and withdrawal from the world, as opposed to an active imitation of Christ by other friars. The book especially emphasizes devotion to the Eucharist as key element of spiritual life.

Verne's most outrageous "voyage extraordinaire" - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen's club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well-regulated.Jules Verne preferred to call himself an author of "voyages extraordinaires." An extraordinary voyage it is, from Fogg's announcement to Passepartout that they are to "leave for Dover in ten minutes," to his triumphant return to the Reform Club at the last second!

ONTENTS
CHRIST'S ENCOURAGEMENTS (Matt. ix. 2)
SOUL-HEALING FIRST: BODY-HEALING SECOND (Matt. ix. 6)
THE CALL OF MATTHEW (Matt. ix. 9-17)
THE TOUCH OF FAITH AND THE TOUCH OF CHRIST (Matt. ix. 18-31)
A CHRISTLIKE JUDGMENT OF MEN (MATT. ix. 36)
THE OBSCURE APOSTLES (Matt. x. 5)
CHRIST'S CHARGE TO HIS HERALDS (Matt. x. 5-16)
THE WIDENED MISSION, ITS PERILS AND DEFENCES (Matt. x. 16-31)
LIKE TEACHER, LIKE SCHOLAR (Matt x. 24, 25)
THE KING'S CHARGE TO HIS AMBASSADORS (Matt. x. 32-42)
A LIFE LOST AND FOUND (Matt. x. 39)
THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM, AND THEIR REWARD (Matt. x. 41, 42)
JOHN'S DOUBTS OF JESUS, AND JESUS' PRAISE OF JOHN (Matt. xi. 2-15)
THE FRIEND OF PUBLICANS AND SINNERS (Matt. xi. 19)
SODOM, CAPERNAUM, MANCHESTER (Matt. xi. 20)
CHRIST'S STRANGE THANKSGIVING (Matt. xi. 25)
THE REST GIVER (Matt. xi. 28, 29)
THE PHARISEES' SABBATH AND CHRIST'S (Matt. xii. 1-14)
AN ATTEMPT TO ACCOUNT FOR JESUS (Matt. xii. 24)
'MAKE THE TREE GOOD' (Matt. xii. 33)
'A GREATER THAN JONAS' (Matt. xii. 41)
'A GREATER THAN SOLOMON' (Matt. xii. 42)
FOUR SOWINGS AND ONE RIPENING (Matt. xiii. 1-9)
EARS AND NO EARS (Matt. xiii. 9)
'TO HIM THAT HATH SHALL BE GIVEN' (Matt. xiii. 12)
SEEING AND BLIND (Matt. xiii. 13)
MINGLED IN GROWTH, SEPARATED IN MATURITY (Matt. xiii. 24-30)
LEAVEN (Matt. xiii. 33)
TREASURE AND PEARL (Matt. xiii. 44-46)
THE MARTYRDOM OF JOHN (Matt. xiv. 1-12)
THE GRAVE OF THE DEAD JOHN AND THE GRAVE OF THE LIVING JESUS (Matt. xiv. 12; xxviii. 8)
THE FOOD OF THE WORLD (Matt. xiv. 19, 20)
THE KING'S HIGHWAY (Matt. xiv. 22-36)
PETER ON THE WAVES (Matt. xiv. 28)
THB CRUMBS AND THE BREAD (Matt. xv. 21-31)
THE DIVINE CHRIST CONFESSED, THE SUFFERING CHRIST DENIED (Matt. xvi. 13-28)
CHRIST FORESEEING THE CROSS (Matt. xvi. 21)
THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY (Matt. xvii, 1-13)
THE SECRET OF POWER. (Matt. xvii. 19, 20)
THE COIN IN THE FISH'S MOUTH (Matt. xvii. 25, 26)