Takeaway: Being Green is fashionable. Being Anti-Green is almost as fashionable. Being reasonable about things, definitely not fashionable. Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook (at posting time, the audiobook is a great price – $6.95) In Green Like God, Jonathan Merritt is attempting, from a fairly conservative theological and social position, to chart out … Read more
Wednesday Unfashionable was introduced. Today I am pulling out one particular issue that I think is import. (Part one of review) Scripture and Truth Tchividjian has a significant discussion on truth and scripture. He starts by saying it is not so much the doctrine of scripture that we as Christians do not pay attention to, it is … Read more
Unfashionable is not the book I thought I was getting. And that is a good thing. I picked it up in audiobook because it was just $6.36 at Audible. I thought it would be ok. What I had heard about it (which wasn’t much, I read an interview on Christianity Today with Tullian Tchividjian and followed the drama at … Read more
What I liked about The Noticer The Noticer was the first book that Thomas Nelson Publishers tried in their NelsonFree program. NelsonFree was an attempt at encouraging the purchase of hardback books. With the purchase of a hardback you would get a code to receive the ebook and the mp3 audiobook free for download. Here is Michael … Read more
I have been reading Jon Acuff since before he started Stuff Christians Like blog. That is both good and bad. It is good because it means that I am a fan. I pre-ordered the book. I knew the type of humor I was going to get. Early in the book Jon says that there is … Read more
Takeaway: Practically, prayer is about investing in those around you. Developing a life of prayer requires that we have relationships that we want to seek after God for their benefit Purchase links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook If you want to learn about the variety of Prayer you should read Richad Foster’s Prayer. If you want to … Read more
I have no idea how to review Sin Boldly (Amazon link). I found the book when it was offered for free on kindle earlier this year. I had not heard of the author, but after looking I realized I had read some of her columns (she is a newspaper religion reporter in Chicago.) I am … Read more
Takeaway: Fixed hour prayer is a great way to focus on God throughout the day, but hard to do in a modern, busy world. Purchase Links: Hardback, Paperback, Kindle Edition For the past couple months I have been trying to do fixed hour prayers. The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime is part of a four book series by … 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