Year 2010

Review: Tea with Hezbollah

Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting Down with Our “Enemies” and Seeking the Good Samaritan by Ted Dekker In a world that denounces terrorism and too often uses incendiary language of condemnation to describe one another, it’s rare to find voices of…

Bookstore melancholy

This is the first of my posts in reflection on my recent personal retreat. As an aside, I’m grateful to David James, the Arkansas Baptist Collegiate Ministry Team Leader, who effectively urged me to take a regular personal retreat each…

Review: A Model for Making Disciples

A Model for Making Disciples: John Wesley’s Class Meeting by D. Michael Henderson It’s amazing the power of what’s been done before. I believe I first heard the term “chronological snobbery” from John Piper. He used it in an effort…

Beautiful Remixed… and grateful

Our church was thrilled and blessed to be able to host the Glory in the Highest Concert in December. Thanks to Legacy campus ministry, we were able to use Burruss Auditorium at VT. It featured Shane & Shane, Phil Wickham…

Review: Courageous Leadership

Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels So… Bill Hybels is the founding and lead pastor of Willowcreek Church in Barrington, Illinois. His church averages 23,000 attendees on the weekends, and its the 4th largest church in the U.S. He founded the…