Like I mentioned in my last post, January is when I tend to do some reflecting on the past year. In this post I want to tell you about my favorite book from 2011: Tim Keller’s King’s Cross It’s hard to really articulate how much I’ve appreciated this book. The flow of the book is [...]
You’ve seen me write a handful of posts (like this one) about Francis Chan over the past couple of years. His podcasts and books – Crazy Love in particular – have been a huge blessing to me. You may or may not know that a few months ago he walked away from his church. No [...]
Like many people, I first discovered Donald Miller through the book Blue Like Jazz. He had written several books before that one ‘hit it big’, but for some reason, that one got our attention. I enjoyed the book a lot — not nearly as much as some of my friends — but I love Don’s [...]
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The lead pastor at our church released a new book this week! Pastor J.D. lived for a couple of years in a Muslim country in the pacific rim of Asia, and also got his PHD in Islamic studies. “Breaking The Islamic Code” is his attempt at helping us ‘westernized Americans’ better understand Islam, Muslims, and [...]
Remember this series of posts from several months ago? I wrote about the book “Religion Saves (and 9 other misconceptions)” by Mark Driscoll, head pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. The book is based on the sermon series by the same name (which you can watch, listen to, or download for free). Well, this [...]
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Check out this excerpt from Seeing And Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper (download the whole book as a .pdf file for free here). The title of the chapter is “The Glory of Rescuing Sinners, Not Removing Satan“: Now without sin and law to condemn and accuse and oppress us, Satan is a defeated foe. [...]
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A few weeks back, I shared my excitement about a new book, Religions Saves, and Nine Other Misconceptions. I wrote a few posts since then, talking about individual chapters (1 and 2), but today I’m excited to be on the official blog tour. So, here’s my overall review of the book (and please forgive me [...]
