Why would a perfect, all-powerful God choose to use flawed people to advance His plan? How can God be both perfectly gracious and perfectly just while so much evil prevails? Will God’s unconditional love be negated when his conditional blessings… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Judges for You by Timothy Keller
What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me? by David Platt is a very short book—really a booklet—with a lengthy title. The audiobook version lands at about 45 minutes, which is shorter than some of the sermons I’ve… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me? by David Platt
Disagreement between married couples is common. This is the issue that Willard F. Harley Jr. tackles in his book He Wins, She Wins: Learning the Art of Martial Negotiation. His premise is that couples need to strive for “mutual enthusiastic… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: He Wins, She Wins by Willard F. Harley Jr.
Mark Driscoll’s new book A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future? releases today. Driscoll, no stranger to controversy, will certainly raise some new hullabaloo with this no-holds-barred book. In the spirit of the Old Testament… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: A Call to Resurgence by Mark Driscoll
I grew up loving the Indiana Jones movies. I appreciated the action married with interesting (pseudo-) facts about history. I probably wanted to be an archaeologist once before I realized it involves a lot more digging and cataloging than swinging and… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Discovering the City of Sodom
Matt Chandler is a man who lives, breathes, preaches, and writes about the wondrous gospel of Christ. I want to be more like him. Because of his battle with brain cancer, he understands mortality and suffering more than most who… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: To Live Is Christ, To Die Is Gain by Matt Chandler
Matt Chandler is a man who lives, breathes, preaches, and writes about the wondrous gospel of Christ. I want to be more like him. Because of his battle with brain cancer, he understands mortality and suffering more than most who… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: To Live Is Christ, To Die Is Gain by Matt Chandler
Matthew 28:18-20 contains what has become known as “The Great Commission:” Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the… Read More »As you go… [from the archive]
Oh, the ubiquity of books about how to “man up” and “pursue Christ like a man.” It’s a classic example of a widespread problem—the increase in what Mark Driscoll calls “boys who shave”—being defined and re-defined over and over in… Read More »BOOK REVIEW: The Real Win by Colt McCoy & Matt Carter
The book of Romans is a very practical book. It just isn’t usually taught in a practical, application-focused way because authors and preachers get too caught up in the heaviness of the doctrine and the complexity of Paul’s courtroom-style arguments. … Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Comforts from Romans by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick