Why Homo Unius Libri?

Here's the deal. When I first named this blog, I named it Pondering Christ & His Cross. While I think that name is a wonderful name for this blog, I always knew that it was going to be a temporary name until I could find a more permanent one that better described what I am trying to do through my blog. Well last week, I finally found the permanent name for my blog... Homo Unius Libri. It means "a man of one book." As you can read in the About Me section of this blog, my main purpose for starting this blog is to "equip my Christian brothers & sisters with Christ-exalting resources." However, how do we know what is Christ-exalting? We come to find what exalts Christ the most from Scripture alone. Therefore, if I am to recommend to others Christ-exalting books, I must first be a man of one book. This is my goal for all of my fellow believers. If we are not men of the Bible first, all of the other books that we read will never have the empowering affect on our lives like God's Word does. May we all desire to be homo unius libri.

"I have thought I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence I am no more seen. I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing, the way to heaven—how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way: for this very end he came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. O give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God! I have it. Here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be homo unius libri [a man of one book]."

- John Wesley, "Preface to Sermons on Several Occasions, 1746," The Works of John Wesley