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  • Reading The Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide For Evangelicals

    Jamin Goggin is a pastor at Saddleback Church, while Kyle Strobel is a professor of theology at Grand Canyon University. Together, they have edited together a collection of essays from a wide range of scholars. The focus in Reading The Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide For Evangelicals is to give an overview and introduction to this collection…

  • Why I Deleted The Mail App on My iPhone

    I’ve had a smartphone of some kind for about 8 years now. The first one I got was a HTC flip phone with Windows on it. It lasted about 18 months and then the screen died because it tended to snap shut way harder than necessary. This meant I reverted to an old school Nokia…

  • Preaching To A Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect With Our Culture

      Recently, I finished working my way through Zack Eswine’s Preaching To A Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect With Our Culture. Though I don’t preach regularly, I found this book useful for my teaching and it will definitely impact how I prepare future messages when I do preach. Also, because I work with Docent…

  • Finally Free: Fighting For Purity With The Power of Grace

    Heath Lambert is the executive director of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (soon to be re-named). He also serves as associate professor of Biblical Counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as associate dean of applied studies and chairman of the department of biblical counseling at their undergrad institution (Boyce). He is…

  • Christianity & World Religions

    Derek Cooper is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology, Associate Director of the D.Min program, and Director of the LEAD M.Div program at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Somewhere, in the midst of all of that, he has managed to put together a fine book: Christianity & World Religions: An Introduction to The World’s…

  • Death By Living: Life Is Meant To Be Spent

    Much like his last foray into non-fiction, N. D. Wilson’s Death By Living: Life Is Meant To Be Spent does not lend itself to easy review. It is kind of a genre-breaker, but in a good way. It’s non-fiction, but it’s written in imaginative prose and contains a myriad of stories. It reads like meditations on mortality…

  • Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and The Arts

    Jerram Barrs is the founder and resident scholar of the Francis Schaeffer Institute at Covenant Theological Seminary. There he teaches apologetics and outreach as professor of Christian studies. Here, he is writing about the arts, and specifically literature. In doing so, he provides an excellent apologetic for both its value as the creation of God’s…

  • Is God Anti-Gay?

    I’m not sure whether more people ask “Is God anti-gay?” or “Isn’t God anti-gay?” A lot may depend on the inflection in the question, but certainly the perception in popular culture is that God is probably anti-gay, or if nothing else his most zealous followers certainly are. To help cut through the tangle of questions…

  • Formed For The Glory of God

    Kyle Strobel is the co-founder and director of Metamorpha Ministries and the editor (along with Jamin Goggin) of Reading The Christian Spiritual Classics.[ref]Which I’ll be reviewing soon[/ref]You can connect with him online at his website or on Twitter. This volume, Formed For The Glory of God: Learning From the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards is part of…

  • Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God’s Word and Keep People Awake

    Both Gary Millar and Phil Campbell are stationed at Queensland Theological College in Brisbane, Australia. Millar is a Northern Irish transplant, and Campbell could be a native for all I know.[ref]The blurbs on the back of the book do not specify Phil’s point of origin like they do for Gary. After reading the book though,…