King The prize possession in my extensive library are the books written by (or containing the edited work of) Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a new book for me – just a $1.99 for my kindle – well worth a couple bucs if you want to explore the impact of the spoken word on [...]
New Book from Dennis Pethers – electronic from Amazon, just $2.99
Dennis Pethers Dennis Pethers is an author and international evangelist living in England. He has just published a new book: The Rooftop – a Crisis of Opportunity Dennis Pethers has also become a close friend of mine over the last several years – having preached at Patterson Avenue Baptist Church on several occasions with warmth, conviction, and passion. [...]
Book Review: Kissing Fish
Here’s something you don’t see often…a book whose content is unashamedly progressive in its theology and ethic. You can look and find books that offer up a dose of high-minded liberalism, or passion driven evangelicalism, or esoteric emergent theology. Try as you might, however, (and I tried) what you can’t find much in the way [...]
Frank Viola’s “Revise Us Again”
I believe that Frank Viola is one of the more critical thinkers in western Christian thought. His website “Beyond Evangelical” (www.frankviola.org) is one of my must read blogs. His books (especially Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ, which he wrote with Leonard Sweet) are among what I consider to be [...]
Review of Jay Bakker’s “Fall to Grace”
I recently picked up a copy of Jay Bakker’s latest book, Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self and Society (Faith Words 2011) out of curiosity, really. I was in seminary during the days when Jay’s parents, televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and their PTL (Praise the Lord) ministry experienced their own [...]
Review of Rob Bell’s “Love Wins”
“I have written this book for all those, everywhere, who have heard some version of the Jesus story that caused their pulse rate to rise, their stomachs to churn, and their heart to utter those resolute words, ‘I would never be a part of that.’” (Rob Bell, Love Wins, from page viii of the Preface) [...]
The Nature of Love: A Theology – by Thomas Jay Oord
The Nature of Love: A Theology – by Thomas Jay Oord Thomas Jay Oord has written or contributed to dozens of books on topics like post modernity, the problem of evil, and the meaning of holiness. Behind all of his work, however, is a passion for the love of God. This passion get’s a fuller [...]
Review: Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace
James Torrance’s book “Worship, Community, and the Triune God of Grace,” challenges us to address the worship practices of the church from a Trinitarian perspective. This is not a book of mechanics (how worship is done). Rather it is a book of theology. Torrance’s contends that much of what we call worship is “Unitarian” in [...]
Review: The Lion, The Mouse, and the Dawn Treader
Carl McColman, is a popular author whose writings address topics such as Celtic spirituality, spiritual disciplines, and Christian mysticism. In his latest book, “The Lion, The Mouse, and The Dawn Treader” McColman examines “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” (one of the books from the C.S. Lewis Narnia series) in order to uncover the [...]
