Your Church Is Too Small
Why Unity in Christ’s Mission Is Vital to the Future of the Church
John H Armstrong
Zondervan, 2010
220 pages
One of my first memories of campus ministry takes me back to a scene during orientation week at a major university. [...]
I will be intrigued to read John’s book – he’s currently here giving some talks at a conference on missional theology. The title and the phrasing can be troubling: what does plurality of truth look like? Does it simply mean an infinite open-endedness to every question? Part of John’s starting point is the evident [...]
in which Timothy J Stoner tells us what he really thinks about the whole emergent mish mash.
I’ll let you know at the end of the week how it goes. From the first 30 or so pages, Timothy wants to give us a broad critique of the good, the bad and the ugly in [...]
1. Slinging mud on the bride of Christ
2. Winning people to the church rather than to the Lord
3. Living below the level of our beliefs
4. Speaking above the level of our knowledge
5. Hopping from church to church
6. Fighting among ourselves
7. Missing golden opportunities
8. Settling for mediocrity
9. Allowing [...]
Metamorpha: Jesus as a way of life
Kyle Strobel
2007 Baker Books
A bit of Kyle’s background is evident from this one off quote, which BTW, was quote of the day here at felix hominum a few weeks ago:
Mine is probably the first generation of children whose parents became Christians in [...]
Wrestling with Angels: Adventures in Faith and Doubt was written in 2000 (as “Living the Questions”) and released again by Harvest House in 2008.
I first had a taste of Carolyn Arends’ creativity a few years ago. The godparents of one of our kids gave us a copy of her CD “We’ve Been Waiting [...]
I wasn’t even thought of when Beatlemania began, but I recently picked up a book by Steve Turner: The Gospel According to the Beatles. It’s going to be my evening reading for the rest of the week, and I’ll be posting a review sometime soon after that. Steve Turner is a writer of all [...]
Last week I spent 3 days on a silent retreat with a group of local clergy. This is an annual event; it’s been a January tradition to bundle up, head out to the Star of the North Retreat Center, and spend a few days in prayer, reading, listening, and fellowship.
As it was a [...]
Pete Greig recounts the scene from Narnia where Digory asks the Lion for the magic fruit, knowing it will cure his mother. There is a secret hope that the Lion will immediately say “yes”, and a dreadful fear that he will “no”. Instead, as Grieg reminds us, the Lion says neither.
He is silent…
[...]
Monday books tend to be a little bit different from books from the rest of the week. Monday is a day off for me, so the reading for the day corresponds. Today’s tome was “Germ“.
Germ is Robert Liparulo’s second novel. It’s a combination good guy/bad guy, science gone awry, Nazis and American [...]
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