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Archive of "Book Reviews" Category
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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. …
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Three Questions that Become Answers (1)
Been really enjoying the book The Monkey and the Fish by Dave Gibbons. It’s one of those books that I will pass on to a few people and simply say …
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Missional Organizational Leadership
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Limitations
I turned 32 today. Not sure what to think about that. But I can confess that one begins to think more intentionally about life the older one gets. Of course, its not like I am old. …
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The Rule of Benedict and the Suburban Christian
In my recent post on “The Mob” I tried to bring out the idea that we need to always be aware and thinking thinking critically about our way of life. We need to constantly be allowing God, mostly …
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ReJesus by Alan Hirsch & Michael Frost
[/caption] I just finished reading ReJesus by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost (doesn’t Michael have a blog?!). Overall it was a really good read that I …ReJesus
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Finished Reading: Resident Aliens & The Tangible Kindgom
One of the things I have been trying to do more of in the evenings is read more. I can all too easily slip into the: put the kids to bed -> turn on the TV -> Turn on the …
