Category Parchment Reviews

An intro to Jesus Manifesto

I’m pretty pumped about starting Jesus Manifesto by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. After all, when you’re posting about the introduction… If the church does not reorient and become Christological at its core, any steps taken will be backwards… the…

Review: Is God a Moral Monster? Part 2

Paul Copan’s Is God a Moral Monster? is an outstanding resource for understanding and responsinding to difficult texts in the Old Testament. In the second part of this ongoing review, I wanted to express some concern about his introduction to…

Review: Is God a Moral Monster? Part 1

One of our church’s small groups has recently read Paul Copan’s book Is God a Moral Monster? Having not heard of Copan before they requested its use, I researched and was impressed by his approachable, scholarly technique in communicating difficult…

Review: The Mystic Rose

Knights. Swords. The Crusades. Holy relics. Stephen Lawhead first captured my appreciation as a magnificent chronicler of historical fiction with his epic book about St. Patrick called Patrick: Son of Ireland. I picked up his Celtic Crusade trilogy, hoping that…

Review: When Missions Shapes the Mission

The book is a reality check, but it's also a practical tool to help begin somewhere. While we have so much change to embrace in order to refocus our churches and members upon the glorious call to take the gospel to all nations, we can begin. There's great hope, for so many churches each year are "getting it."

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