Category Parchment Reviews

Review: Crazy Love

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…

Review: Green

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…

Review: The Heavenly Man

The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Brother Yun Even before I was able to read this dynamic account of Brother Yun’s life as a Chinese pastor and underground church leader, my book was…

Review: The Forgotten Ways

The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Alan Hirsch Alan Hirsch has done it again. He made my head hurt… and my heart. In The Forgotten Ways Hirsch uses a lot of trendy church terminology like missional, DNA, emerging,…

Review: Brisingr (rated 5 stars)

Brisinger by Christopher Paolini What a love/hate relationship I have when I near the end of a fantastic, epic book. As I finished the next-to-last chapter of Brisingr, it dawned on me like a flash that there was no way…

Review: essential church?

Essential Church?: Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts by Thom S. Rainer The Rainer father and son authorial team — Thom and Sam — have shot the latest signal flare to urge, warn and compel the church to reach young people…

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