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 [...]

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 [...]