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Takeaway: Evangelism and Social Justice are not antithetical. Purchase Links: Paperback, Kindle Edition, Audible.com Audiobook (Paperback is a great price) I started Humanitarian Jesus immediately after Jesus Manifesto (my review). In most ways, Humanitarian Jesus was exactly what Jesus Manifesto should have been. The first section of the book focused on a theology of Christ … Read more
This is the second of Scott Nicolson’s books I have read (my review of Skull Ring). The Red Church is a similarly creepy book. The story centers around a red church that has been abandoned. The rural community says it is haunted by the ghost of a preacher that was hung by his congregation for … Read more
In many ways I am of the mind that this book probably did not need to be written. It is not that I do not think that we pay enough attention to Christ. But that I am not sure that another book about Christ and the problem of not paying attention to Christ really will … Read more
The Hole in our Gospel and related search strings are consistently one of the top books that bring people to this blog. And Monday May, 31, 2010 is the last day that christianaudio.com is giving away the audio version free. So I thought I would link to two blogs I trust for second opinions. First here … Read more
I posted a book review over at ChurchCrunch. Here is the start of the review: Twitter is ubiquitous. Now it is even a format for books ideas. It seems odd, but as far as I can tell (in my very brief amount of searching) this is the first book made up mostly of a curated twitter stream. … Read more
The idea of Follow Me to Freedom is that in order to be a good leader, you first have to be a good follower (of Christ). This book is an attempt to teach us about “followership” as Shane Claiborne puts it. I listened to this on audiobook. It is presented as a conversation format, alternating … Read more
There are several books on virtue/character/ethics that have come out in the last couple months. I am currently reading NT Wright’s After You Believe and Tim Keller’s Prodigal God and a new biography on Bonhoeffer but Steve Chalke and Alan Mann’s book Different Eyes: The Art of Living Beautifully may be the best of the … Read more
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
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
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