What would it look like if a person were to forsake their pursuit of the American Dream and instead live their lives as a radical disciple of Jesus? The question assumes that the two are mutually exclusive. In his book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream, David Platt suggests just that. . . . → Read More: Book Review: Radical by David Platt
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Where does a pastor’s voice come from? Not just the voice you hear on Sunday mornings, but the voice necessary to speak healing into our broken world. In his book, The Pastor As Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life, M. Craig Barnes delves into the complexities of the pastoral vocation and . . . → Read More: Book Review: The Pastor As Minor Poet “Providence” seems to be a recurring theme in The Skin Map. There are several places in the story where you will hear statements like “Providence is on our side” or something very similar. And it is often that events play out in a way that makes it difficult to point to mere coincidence as . . . → Read More: The Skin Map, Day 2 – CSFF Blog Tour Well… it’s day one of the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour for the novel The Skin Map by Stephen Lawhead. “What’s a blog tour?” you might ask. That’s a great question that I only learned the answer to a few months ago. A blog tour is an online publicity event that generates . . . → Read More: The Skin Map, Day 1 – CSFF Blog Tour What is the Gospel? It should be an easy question to answer, but as is often the case with seemingly simple theological questions, the answer is not as simple as some would like it to be. We have a plethora of well-used words in the Christian tradition that defy any attempt to define them . . . → Read More: Book Review: The Gospel According to Jesus by Chris Seay Transforming Church in Rural America by Shannon O’Dell is a great discussion starter, but don’t expect a blueprint for growing a church in a rural setting. To be fair, offering a blueprint is not O’Dell’s intention, but rather, he offers us his vision of a thriving church in rural America and provides some fundamental . . . → Read More: Book Review: Transforming Church in Rural America by Shannon O’Dell A Life-changing Encounter With God’s Word from the Book of Psalms, published by NavPress, is the latest in the LifeChange Series of Bible studies on the Books of the Bible. This work provides a good introduction to the Psalms if your intent is a “reflective” type of study. If you are looking for . . . → Read More: Life Change Series: Psalms Is there anything that Max Lucado has written that isn’t worth reading? If there is, I can’t find it; and that includes his latest, Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference. Max Lucado once again turns to his tried and true formula: retell the biblical . . . → Read More: Outlive Your Life Some people find it easy to share their faith, even with strangers whom they have just met. The rest of us struggle to find the right words to say when we are talking about the weather, much less when we are talking about something of ultimate importance. Maybe it’s a lack of . . . → Read More: Acts 29: The Mission Continues… What does it take to reach people who just aren’t listening? Sometimes it takes something extreme to show people that you are sincere. For Francis of Assisi, that meant giving up his lavish lifestyle as the son of a wealthy merchant and embracing a life devoted to poverty. Not just assisting the . . . → Read More: Saint Francis (Christian Encounters Series) |
   
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