Adam Shields Last week I profiled my favorite audiobook source Audible.com. This week it is a free source for audiobooks, at least for some people. NetLibrary is not something you can subscribe to, it is something your local library subscribes to. So right off the bat a signficant group of people will not be able to use … Read more
When I agreed to review this book I was specifically thinking of a friend that had asked me for a recommendation for a Chronological bible earlier this year. I knew that such bibles existed but I had not read one. So I was not really sure what to expect. I knew this was not a bible, but a background … Read more
Friday I posted about why the church should be working toward greater unity. Saturday I posted about John Armstrong’s understanding of how to deal with issues of truth, individualism and how God works in history. Today I am looking at how Your Church Is Too Small addresses steps to move forward. In the end I … Read more
Part one of this review is here and part three is here. ___ Yesterday I posted an introduction to Your Church is too Small. It was mostly about why we as a church should strive toward unity. Theorectially, I do not think many people disagree with the idea that the church of Jesus Christ should … Read more
I wanted to like Hear No Evil before I even picked it up. I have been following Matthew Paul Turner on twitter for a while. And most of the time I have really liked his humor. (No one can be funny all the time.) In all the books I have been reading, I have over … Read more
This review is a bit over 4 years old now. I have left the main review in place and just added some of the new features at the top. _______ Since Amazon purchased Audible they have been actively working to increase the integration of kindle books and audiobooks. This has happened several ways. The most … Read more
Tithing can be a tricky topic in some crowds. I have never really understood why it is such a taboo subject. Maybe it is because I am a pastor’s kid, maybe it is because it was never really a question whether you gave or not. So I guess I do not really understand the trepidation … Read more
If you read my reviews frequently, then this book is going to be way outside my normal content. Only about 1 in 8 books I review is fiction. And all except for 2 of the fiction books I have reviewed here have been Fantasy or Science Fiction. I am not traditionally a suspense/horror reader. The … Read more
Ebooks are here to stay. Whether you like the idea of ebooks or not, they are going to be sticking around. Personally, I am trying to move more and more of my world digital. My filing cabinet is almost empty. My bookshelf with the few paperbooks that I really don’t want to get rid of … Read more
Takeaway: What is important about the church should be Jesus, not the structure. Purchase Links: Hardback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook, christianaudio.com Audiobook “The world is interested in Jesus. It is his wife, the bride of Christ, that they do not want to spend time with.” Neil Cole opens the book Organic Church with that provocative … Read more