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New Book from Dennis Pethers – electronic from Amazon, just $2.99

By on Saturday, February 11th, 2012 | No Comments

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. […]

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Book Review: Kissing Fish

By on Monday, October 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

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 […]

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Frank Viola’s “Revise Us Again”

By on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 | No Comments

  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 […]

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Review: “Stories That Feed Your Soul” by Tony Campolo

By on Friday, April 15th, 2011 | No Comments

As a member of the “Viral Bloggers Community” I have had the chance to read several books on a variety of topics.  These books have inspired and challenged, informed and entertained.  Most have been about church leadership, the transitional nature of ministry and mission in our emerging culture, and other works of theological reflection.  The […]

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Review of Jay Bakker’s “Fall to Grace”

By on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 | 3 Comments

  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 […]

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Review of Rob Bell’s “Love Wins”

By on Thursday, March 17th, 2011 | 14 Comments

“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) […]

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The Nature of Love: A Theology – by Thomas Jay Oord

By on Sunday, February 20th, 2011 | 1 Comment

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 […]

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Review: Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace

By on Friday, February 4th, 2011 | No Comments

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 […]

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Review: The Lion, The Mouse, and the Dawn Treader

By on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 | No Comments

  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 […]

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The Great Dance: The Christian Vision Revisited

By on Thursday, November 25th, 2010 | No Comments

The Book’s Message There is something grand and wonderful running through the scenes of our lives. We are part of something magnificent like an invisible flowing river. We are part of a great dance. “The central passion of the human heart is to be filled with the great dance, and the chief and maddening riddle […]

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