200 Posts and Counting!

Assuming I've been keeping tally of things correctly, you're officially reading Post #200 on this Brookside Institute site!  Over the course of the last 12 months, we've had 16,600+ unique visitors to this site, and over 87,500 total page views.  Whether this is your first intro to who we are or you've been tagging along for a while, thanks for joining in!  

As the posts continue accumulating, I don't want that to keep us from looking back every now and then - to review what the Brookside Institute is all about, and for me to mention posts that are either some of my personal favorites or that have gotten lots of traction.  These sorts of "review posts" also serve as a sort of index (or Table of Contents?), organizing the material and helping orient you to who we are and what we're about at the Brookside Institute.

What I've done with this post, then, is organized some links under the following categories:

• First Things First: Some Orientation to Who I Am, What We Do at the Brookside Institute, and What Others Are Saying
• Why We Do What We Do: Championing the Value of Equipping
• How We Do What We Do: The Specific Shape of the Brookside Institute
• My Personal "Top 12" Posts (either because I had fun writing the material, because of the importance of the topic, etc.)

Underneath each category, I've included a short list of links to pages on this site where you can learn more about who we are and what we're up to.

My recommendation?  Scroll through the index that's below, and find 3-4 posts you want to check out.  This is a great way to see what we're doing and get to know the Institute a bit better! 

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First Things First

• Who I am and what the Institute is "about"
• Institute Classes: A core expression of who we are
• What other leaders are saying about the Institute

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Why We Do What WE Do: Championing the Value of Equipping

• Catalyzing Some Catechizing: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
• Why Theology Matters
• Why I Still Believe in Adult Equipping Environments.
• Building Foundations of the Christian Faith.
• Reinforcing Foundations of the Christian Faith.
• Gregg Allison on the Importance and Role of Christian Education in the Life of the Church
• Adult Equipping: The Vestigial Organ in the Body of Christ?
• 3 Ways Theology and the Local Church Go Hand-in-Hand
• Yes.  Yes.  And Yes!  I Love What JT English Says about Making Theology Accessible in the Local Church.

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How We Do What We Do: The Specific Shape of the Brookside Institute

• Four Reasons to Take a Brookside Institute Class
• A Page from Our Playbook: Brookside Institute Core Values
• Four "Academic Vices" Not Allowed in the Institute
• Dig Deep.  Learn Good.  Launch Well.
• Building Foundations of the Christian Faith
• Reinforcing Foundations of the Christian Faith
• Multiplying Ideas for Equipping the Church
• Yes.  Yes.  And Yes!  I Love What JT English Says about Making Theology Accessible in the Local Church.

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My Personal "Top 18" Posts

listed in the order in which they were posted

• Bible Reading, Speedboating, and Scuba Diving
• Theology: A Mosaic of Four Pictures
• How to Study the Bible on Your Own
• We Need Sound Theology.  And We Need MORE than Sound Theology.
• Starting to Build Your Library of Biblical and Theological Resources?  These 8 Books Can Help Get You Started
• How to Keep Our Footing Amidst the Shifting Soils of Culture
• Why Ephesians 2:8-9 is Even Better than You Think.
• Adult Equipping: The Vestigial Organ in the Body of Christ?
• Watch Out for These Ethical Blindspots!
• How to Listen to a Communicating God
• The "Ministry" of Recommending Books
• Doing Theology is Important.  But Watch Out for these Dangers.
• 3 Ways Theology and the Local Church Go Hand-in-Hand
• Multiplying Ideas for Equipping the Church
• Yes.  Yes.  And Yes!  I Love What JT English Says about Making Theology Accessible in the Local Church.
• The Importance of the Christian Worldview
• Why I'm Getting More and More Comfortable with the Words "I Don't Know"
• What is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism?  And How Does it Stack Up Against Biblical Christianity?