Someone gave me a nice compliment today

 

Someone gave me a really nice compliment today.

They said I would have really "deep-thinking children" that "won't take things at face value."

That's the plan man.

And that's why marrying the right woman is so important. The woman I choose has to be down with it. She cannot retard progress or be lazy. I screen for this in the dating process.

I don't want to raise humans with malformed minds. I do not trust private school or public school with my children's minds. We're going to educate them ourselves.

I estimate that I have around 1,000-2,000 books in my library. I've only read about 25-27 books this year. I'm really behind with my goal of 52 books in 2021 but more important things interrupted me. But I'm curating a list of books I want my family and friends to read -- books that should be read a least twice and internalized.

I want my children to be beneficiaries of my personal teaching and guidance and inherit my ever-growing library. 

She doesn't have to have my extraordinary reading goals. But one of the things she has to be about is educating our kids.

Book Recommendations**

1. Biblical Theology: How the Church Faithfully Teaches the Gospel by Nick Roark & Robert Cline
2. The Household and the War for The Cosmos by C.R. Wiley
3. Sermon on the Mount by Scot McKnight
4. The Case for Patriarchy by Timothy J. Gordon
5. Living in a Godly Marriage by Joel R. Beeke
6. Manifested in the Flesh by Joel McDurmon
7. Sinful Speech by John Flavel
8. Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus by J. Mack Stiles
9. A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament by J. Alec Moyter
10. The Nomadic Wealth Formula: A Blueprint for Generating Predictable and Sustainable Income from Anywhere on Earth by Jason Stapleton
11. Man of the House by C.R. Wiley
12. Thoughts on Family Worship by James Waddel Alexander
13. How Should Men Lead Their Families by Joel R. Beeke
14. The Case of the Hopeless Marriage: A Nouthetic Counseling Case from Beginning to End by Jay E. Adams
15. Reforming Marriage by Douglas Wilson
16. Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
17. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism by Robert P. Murphy
18. Meltdown: A Free Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods
19. End the Fed by Ron Paul

**This list is in progress and mostly reflects my 2021 reading. The last four books I read in previous years.

Here's another list of 10 economics books to help understand "how we got here" in terms of the growth of government and central banking in the United States.