Books A Review of “Everyday Church” by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis 3 Mar 2014 What would it look like to be a part of a gospel community every day of the week? That question has prompted Tim Chester and Steve Timmis to think about…
Books A Review of “Total Church” by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis 24 Feb 2014 The church is more than organizational structures and facilities! There has been an ever-increasing desire to rethink the patterns and nature of the church in the postmodern era. Many of…
Books A Review of “Reveal” by Greg L. Hawkins and Cally Parkinson 17 Feb 2014 How you think about the church inevitably drives how you do ministry. Ecclesiology impacts missiology. For years that has been a critique of the seeker-sensitive movement. They tended to think…
Books A Review of “Recovering Classic Evangelicalism” by Gregory Alan Thornbury 3 Feb 2014 This is the most philosophically robust tiny book I have ever read! It's a relatively thin paperback, and yet I was shocked at how rich and deep its content was.…
Books A Review of “Community” by Brad House 27 Jan 2014 Time and time again I have seen the value of community for discipleship. On February 15th some of our guys from Recovery are going to testify to the importance of…
Books… A Brief Discussion with John Frame on Systematic Theology 20 Jan 2014 It is always a joy and delight to talk with Dr. Frame. With the release of his new Systematic Theology I wanted him to share with us all a bit…
Books… A Review of “The World is Not Ours to Save” by Tyler Wigg-Stevenson 13 Jan 201413 Jan 2014 You know that there’s a “but” coming. I believe in the importance of Christian activism and cultural engagement. I actually do believe that “social justice” is part of the mission…
Books The Best of 2013: Books 31 Dec 2013 I read a lot, roughly a book a week. While I don't always get to read lots of new books, with my year-long study projects, I do get to read…
Books… A Review of “The Theology of Jonathan Edwards” by Michael J. McClymond and Gerald McDermott 16 Dec 2013 You need at least 700 pages to even remotely unpack the theology of Jonathan Edwards. The man and his thought are so complex anything less than this couldn’t even approach…
Books A Review of “How People Change” by Tim Lane and Paul Tripp 9 Dec 20139 Dec 2013 Helping people change is part of my job. And while change looks a little bit different for everyone, there are some common features to the process of change that unify…