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
I wish I would have never used the phrase “eye-opening” before in my life. I could have used it for the first time to describe The Global War on Christians by John L. Allen Jr. and it wouldn’t sound so… Read More »BOOK REVIEW: The Global War on Christians by John L. Allen Jr.
Thanks to Andy Stanley for this powerful thought. Leaders, are we intentionally moving people into the circles of Christian community, or are we satisfied with leaving them in rows listening to us talk?
Sometimes bringing awareness to desperate causes requires desperate measures. That’s the whole premise behind 10 Days Without by Daniel Ryan Day: a white, middle class American decides to shrug off apathy, abandon certain “necessities,” and help those who can’t help… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: 10 Days Without by Daniel Ryan Day
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
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’m not sure if I’m unique in this, but I wasn’t really excited to read Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army by Robert A. Watson and Ben Brown. Maybe it’s because my main interaction with the Salvation Army is during… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Leadership Secrets of the Salvation Army
Kevin DeYoung tackles an issue nearly all of us seem to struggle with in his book Crazy Busy. This is a very short book, designed to be read by even the busiest of people to help them gain some perspective… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung
People are messy. People are difficult. People are frustrating. People are hurtful. People are fickle. People are unfair. People are disappointing. Love them anyway. This is what it means to be leader who believes in the messy, unfair, and… Read More »People are…
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