Adam Shields Again it has been a while since I have posted. I have participated in two group blog discussions, one about the book Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps and one about Mad Church Disease by Anne Jackson. I recently bought four books on prayer. I have been reading a bunch of books on prayer and intercession, … Read more
This post is based on the sixth chapter of Mad Church Disease. There are both previous and later blog posts for this blog group book discussion. This is a hard chapter to blog about. The previous chapters are primarily describing the issues with us as people and the church as an institution that lead to … Read more
I decided I needed some inspiration to keep posting on this blog. So I am going to start crossposting my book reviews that I do over at http://www.goodreads.com. If you also use Goodreads let me know and I will follow you there. I am not going back and posting old book reviews, just new ones. … Read more
I now have a Kindle 2 and really need to update the review that I did of the Kindle 1. Yes I didn’t need to upgrade but I was able to sell the Kindle 1 for $25 less that what I paid for it, so it wasn’t too bad of a deal. There are a … Read more
I listened to this book on audio book about a year ago and thought it was great. I encouraged some work contacts to use it as a discussion book, I supported this group. But the more I re-read the more frustrated I get. It is not that I don’t agree with much of what he … Read more
Churchcrunch.com is hosting a blogging project to discuss the Seth Godin book Tribes. You can get the overview here. Each day a different person is leading the discussion on several pages. The list of the blog of the day is on the overview page. The first day’s discussion is here
I haven’t used this blog for much recently. Most of my time is going to twitter or my niece’s blog. But I was asked last night about my new Amazon Kindle and tried to write a review in the comments section of Facebook. So I copied what I wrote there and expanded it a bit. … Read more
Have been at the beach the last two weeks so I have been able to get some reading done (in between having to put in a few hours of work a day and swimming in the ocean.) The most recent book I finished was Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A Heinlein. I am … Read more
This week I read a very good book about a guy that builds schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is called “Three Cups of Tea“. There are several thoughts I had about this book. First, he makes a strong point of the fact that what he does in rural development is a probably doing … Read more
Mark Lee of Third Day fame has started his summer reading club on his blog. Instructions are that we are supposed to talk about the last two books we read. I have a bad habit of usually reading at least three books at any one time. I listen to one from Audible.com, read one on … Read more