I just finished the book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. The book is by Francis S. Collins, who is the longtime head of the Human Genome Project and professor at the University of Michigan. His main thesis in the book is to present the evidence for a “scientifically consistent and [...]
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BioLogos: Science and Faith in Harmony
Posted in Book Reviews, Science on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“The Secret” is dumb, and I’m not the only one who thinks so
Posted in Book Reviews, Cults, tagged Debunked, Rhonda Byrne, Richard Roeper, Sun Times, The Secret, The Secret consiracy on July 7, 2008 | Comments Off
If I were to come out and critique “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, then no one would be surprised. I would just be another Christian critiquing a book that I’m narrow minded about. Fine. I’ll let someone else tell you “The Secret” is about as trustworthy as pyromaniac in a store that sells fireworks.
I was reading [...]
“You might be Emergent if … “
Posted in Book Reviews, Emerging Church, Funny Theology, postmodernism on April 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Many of you have read articles or Internet posts that details “you might be (from Minnesota, a Cubs fan, etc.) if … “ In the book Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, there is a quote that basically does the same thing with the “Emerging Church [...]
“God’s Problem” – Bart Ehrman
Posted in Atheism, Book Reviews on March 19, 2008 | Comments Off
Tim Challies has a good overall review of the book God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer our Most Important Question — Why we Sufferby Bart Ehrman, who is a respectable scholar and former follower of Jesus. Challies focuses more on the person of Ehrman that is seen in the pages of this book [...]
Making Vision Stick
Posted in Book Reviews, Church Leadership, Church Planting on December 4, 2007 | Comments Off
Making Vision Stick by Andy Stanley is a book that the elders at Evanston Bible Fellowship are reading to re-articulate our vision for this local church. This book is both short and helpful. Here are the main points of the book, which Pastor Stanley calls five things that “significantly increase the adhesiveness of your vision” [...]
Preaching and Teaching Future Pastors and Present Parishioners: The ministry of Daniel Payne
Posted in Book Reviews, Great Preachers on November 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I wanted to put on last post up from the book The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors by Thabiti M. Anyabwile. I’ve already reviewed two preachers highlighted in the book in posts titled A Ministry with Eyes Toward Eternity – the call of Lemuel Haynes and The Gospel’s Annihilation of [...]
A Ministry with Eyes toward Eternity – the call of Lemuel Haynes
Posted in Book Reviews, Church Leadership on May 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here are some more of my reflections from the book by Thabiti M. Anyabwile The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors, as he presents the life and ministry of Lemuel Haynes.
Many great pastors have faithful ministries [...]
The Gospel’s Annihilation of Racial Prejudice – The call of Francis Grimke
Posted in Book Reviews, Racial Reconciliation on May 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I recently finished reading the book The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors by Thabiti M. Anyabwile. This book is a treasure to read and I’d recommend it to anyone. While reading this book, I was struck by how relevant the messages from these preachers are for us today. Below [...]
Church Planting Movements
Posted in Book Reviews, Church Planting, Missions on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The above video is a summary of David Garrison’s book Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World. In this book, he summarizes ten elements that he finds in every church planting movement. These elements are: (1) extraordinary prayer; (2) abundant evangelism; (3) intentional planting of reproducing churches; (4) the authority [...]
