About the Book
BELOVED OF GOD AND CALLED TO BE SAINTS is not another devotional meant to make you feel better about yourself. This 378-page book is a humble invitation to those who want to see more clearly.
The text centers on Paul’s letter to the Romans expressing his desire for first-century saints living in Rome to support his upcoming missionary work to Spain. In order to assure them that he is worthy of their support, Paul lays out before them his longest and most sustained theological explanation of the gospel.
The theme of Paul’s letter is the gospel’s power to save the unrighteous and to establish a flourishing humanity in the new age of Spirit-led liberty, a humanity united in and by Jesus Christ for the glory of God the Father. What we discover by the end of Paul’s letter is this: God is the rightful monarch; amidst all his creation, human beings are his special subjects; his desire for humanity is that they flourish; but we can only flourish when we embrace the grace of our benevolent God’s rightful rule.
Written as 267 daily reflections drawn from Paul’s letter to the Romans, BELOVED OF GOD AND CALLED TO BE SAINTS offers nine months of meaningful theology for ordinary mornings. Each crumb is genuinely thoughtful, honestly bracing, and quietly hopeful. These are not sermons, nor are they banal “inspirational” sentiments. They are crumbs written for our nourishment: small portions of Scripture carefully exposited to be slowly and patiently chewed. Most importantly, each daily crumb is meant to whet the reader’s appetite for the greater feast of Word and Sacrament.
This book matters because it is written from a Christian humanist perspective. That means it teaches Christians to think biblically, patiently, and humbly once again. And, it does so at a particular time when much of the Church has adopted the culture’s mantra of “reward reaction and reject reflection.”
The Crumbs format teaches Christians to read Paul’s letter written to the Romans for our own spiritual and intellectual formation. In short, this book is meant to be neither kitsch sentimentality nor an arsenal for gathering more ammunition for the culture wars. It is meant to help ordinary believers recover the habit of patient obedience in the same direction, an obedience guided by Spirit and Scripture instead of the more common model of therapeutic pietism.
The CRUMBS FROM OUR MASTER’S TABLE series is a daily morsel of theological soul food, short expositional readings and thoughtful commentary on every verse of Scripture. Crumbs may be small, but there is nourishment in every morsel because they come from our Master’s table—good for daily food and great with a morning cup of coffee.
About the Author
SCOTT POSTMA, PhD, is a Christian humanist and ardent advocate for classical Christian education. He serves as president of Kepler Education and chief editor of The Consortium: A Journal of Classical Christian Education. Dr. Postma brings more than thirty years’ experience in Christian education and twenty years’ experience in pastoral ministry to his writing and leadership. His formal education includes a PhD in humanities (emphasis in literature) from Faulkner University, an MA in Christian and Classical Studies from Knox Theological Seminary. His undergraduate work focused on literature and creative writing. A father of four adult children and papa to more than a handful of grandbabies, he resides in North Idaho with his wife of thirty-five years.
You can find more of his writing at scottpostma.net.
forthcoming…
The Great Conversation is Robert Maynard Hutchins’s classic opening volume to The Great Books of the Western World series edited by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Encyclopedia Brittanica with backing from the University of Chicago.
Now in the public domain, this brilliant introductory essay pulls readers into the historical conversation that has shaped Western ideas for nearly three millennia. First published in 1952 as the introduction to the 54-volume collection, Hutchins pitches this “great conversation” as an ongoing dialogue between the great thinkers of the western world, from antiquity through modernity. His main point is that a liberal education is not simply a matter of compiling a large mental warehouse of facts; it’s about entering into this conversation that has taken place between the greatest minds, those who have wrestled with the biggest questions about the human condition, like truth, goodness, justice, religion, and what it means to be truly human.
The Great Conversation is your proverbial tour guide to the best that has been thought and written in the western world. It’s a ticket to the proverbial train of thoughts that will allow the careful reader to view his own era through the lens of history’s deepest debates, and to see just how philosophy, poetry, science, and theology are integrated in the pursuit of genuine wisdom.
In this republished stand-alone volume, Dr. Robert M. Woods provides an insightful, new introduction to Hutchins’ work, along with notes and annotations that lends the wisdom of his 30-plus years of observations as as a classical educator.
Coming late summer of 2026…
About the Author
Robert M. Woods holds a BA in biblical studies and ministry from Point University, an MA in religious studies from Barry University, a PhD in humanities from Florida State University, and a Doctor of Arts from Harrison Middleton University. After developing and chairing the Great Books Honors College at Faulkner University for over fifteen years, served as headmaster at two prominent classical Christian Schools, he now serves at the director of graduate studies in the humanities at Faulkner University and dean of Academics a Kepler Education. He also enjoys consulting and speaking about how to implement Adler’s Paideia approach in classical schools.
You can find more of his writing at Robert’s Substack