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The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love With the God Jesus Knows (The Apprentice Series) by James Bryan Smith Let’s be real clear at the outset. My three stars out of five are not for our good and beautiful…
The Red Sea Rules The Same God Who Led You In Will Lead You Out by Robert J. Morgan This small book makes for an easy read, but I encourage you at the outset to not plow through it just…
I was contacted by the publisher of In Plain Sight and asked whether I’d be willing to review the book if they supplied a copy. A free book? Of course. I was not familiar with the book or author though,…
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…
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…
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…
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (The Best American Series) I waded through the first story, F-bombs and all. Then came the second story with more of the same… What?! Really?! If these are the “Best American Short Stories of…
Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan My short synopsis is: “One of those simple but powerful books that challenges comfortable “Christianity.” Can being a Christian really be “comfortable?” Peaceful perhaps. But anything but comfortable.” This is…
Green (The Circle, Book 0: The Beginning and the End) by Ted Dekker I have read the Circle Trilogy and reviewed Black and Red on my blog. I was thrilled to see that Thomas Nelson publishers was offering Green as…