Archive of "Book Reviews" Category
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And: The Gathered and Scattered Church
A few weeks ago the book And: The Gathered and Scattered Church showed up on my front step (that’s …
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ViralHope Video
This year I was part of a book project called ViralHope: Good News from the Urbs to the Burbs. You can get it off the Ecclesia Press Website or Amazon.
This is the description of the book: “In ViralHope: …
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ViralHope & What is the Good News to Suburbia?
I am honored to have been able to contribute to a really exciting book project called ViralHope: Good News from the Urbs to the Suburbs. This is exciting …
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C.S. Lewis on the Natural Self
The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says “Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come …
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David Bosch on The Church and the World
David Bosch outlines five important characteristics of the church’s relationship to the world in his landmark book “Transforming Mission.” This stuff is so fantastic (and I think important) that I am just going to copy what he wrote here. Also, if …
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Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson
Eugene Peterson’s latest book, Practice Resurrection is fantastic. I don’t know how else to say it. An excerpt,
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Letters and Papers from Prison – Bonhoeffer
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Edwin Freidman on Change
Edwin Friedman spoke the following at the Baccalaureate address to Albert Einstein High School in 1964:
“The universal ingredient and force which permeates all of life – namely change – is changing for the faster, and this means that it will … -
Three Questions Worth Spending Significant Time Contemplating
In his excellent book The Monkey and the Fish, Dave Gibbons asks three questions as he talks about the massive shift that is going on in our world. How …
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Newbigin on Leadership
I read Lesslie Newbigin’s chapter on Leadership from his book The Gospel in a Pluralist Society once every few months. It’s that good. Here is an excellent …
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What Story Are You Living? Reflections on Don Miller’s Book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years”
Like many others, I read Donald Miller’s book, “Blue Like Jazz” in about three sittings. That’s not only cause it’s an easy read, but mostly because he’s a great …
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This is Salvation.
I am just getting into the book Sin and Salvation from Lesslie Newbigin. It’s not one of his more famous books but I recently heard it described as the most … -
Whole Life Generosity
In my sermon this week, on the parable of the Foolish Rich Man, I referenced this quote from Tom Sine’s book, The New Conspirators. I absolutely loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who is …
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Pastors in their Offices
“The initial locus and primary focus of [pastors] work is in their offices. Time-management studies again and again have confirmed that pastors invest a large percentage of their time in their offices – in meetings, in doing administrative work, …
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The Furious Longing of God
I’m almost embrassed to say that I have never actually read a book by Brennan Manning. From what …
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What Role Does Confession Play in Your Life?
I’ve been working with someone in our church to take a long hard look at the culture and practices of we’ve developed in our church around the issue of spiritual formation, spiritual direction and discipleship. In this, I’ve been …
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Surprised by Scripture
[/caption] Eugene Peterson is one of those writers who has the uncanny knack to take my deepest struggles with leadership, faith, spirituality and speak …Eat this Book
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Sway by Ori and Rom Brafman
[/caption]Why Smart People Do Dumb Stuff.
Some of you might know the Ori Brafman from the very good book, The Starfish and the Spider.” …
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Three Questions that Become Answers (2)
I’m working through three questions from Dave Gibbons from the book the Monkey and the Fish (I posted question #1 on Sunday night) ”What is my pain” is the second question that Gibbons …
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Pastor, How Do You Spend Your Week?
We’re interacting with Ken Callahan’s book, “Effective Church Leadership” here. I’ve done him the favor of re-titling it Organizational Leadership for Missional Churches without asking him.
He’s talks a bit about re-imagining the way pastors spend their time. …
