Books
A few books we recommend. A little behind here but will soon catch up.
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Saving Christianity? The Corruptive Influence of Progressive “Christianity”
Dr. Michael Youssef, author of “Saving Christianity?”, discusses the growing corruptive influence of the Progressive “Christian” movement.
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How Non-Christian Soccer Moms Decide What Songs You Sing At Church
Most major Christian radio stations market not to Christians, but to soccer Moms driving kids around town, 30-40% who listen are not Christians. So the music you hear on Sunday morning is based on popularity, which is not determined by theologians or pastors, but by marketers appealing to thirty-something soccer moms of varying faiths and…
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Bonhoeffer: The Book
“The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organised church is only the inevitable consequence…we baptised, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation without condition…But the call to follow Jesus in the narrow way was hardly ever heard.“
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Social Nation: Developing Your Social Media Strategy
How to build an effective “social nation” via social media for your organization.
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The Scandal of the Easter Story
New book from Crossway: Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus (RE: Lit) Christians all around the world are preparing to celebrate one of the year’s biggest holidays—and as author D. A. Carson writes, one of history’s biggest scandals. Nearly two thousand years ago, a Galilean hung on a cross, died, and rose from the
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Mighty Acts of God: A Family Bible Story Book
We’ve been reading a new children’s Bible during our devotions that both we and our kids are enjoying: Mighty Acts of God: A Family Bible Story Book. This volume (which our five year old understands much of) takes a chronological view of the Bible, and tells stories in a way that connects kids to Bible truth.
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What Were You Expecting? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage
I just finished reading an advance copy of Paul David Tripp’s forthcoming book entitled What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage. Unlike many other marriage books, this one looks at marriage as an act of worship and explores how our vertical relationships with God impacts our horizontal relationships with each other. Tripp both
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The Jesus Storybook Bible
Our kids—two and four (almost five)–love bedtime Bible stories. We’ve got three kids Bibles we read through, but our family favorite is the Jesus Storybook Bible. Illustrated by Jago and written by Sally Lloyd Jones, it’s a charming but serious Bible that our kids love to both read and flip through to look at pictures.
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Marcus Buckingham: The Truth About You
When best-selling author Marcus Buckingham writes, people listen. At least they should. He’s one of the few “motivational speakers” with something to say besides the usual platitudes and clichés offered up by many. Buckingham has become something of an authority in the business world in helping people identify their strengths and weaknesses, and encouraging them
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Spectacular Sins, the Sovereignty of God, and the Coddled American Church
John Piper’s latest book is out, and we recently finished reading our review copy. Entitled Spectacular Sins, the book looks at the sovereignty of God against the backdrop of massive sin. Even though it’s a thin book by most standards, the content is powerful and it is written in a conversational, easy-to-read manner similar to
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Why German Christians Supported Hitler
A sobering review of the book, Hitler’s Cross, by Erwin Lutzer. Foreward by Ravi Zacharias.
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Interview With Collin Hansen, Author of Young, Restless, Reformed
We were able to catch up recently with Collin Hansen, author of Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists, to talk about the increasing numbers of young evangelicals embracing the sovereignty of God and historic doctrines of grace. [embedded links inserted by worship.com] JR: Let’s start with the title. First, the word
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Interview With Author Colin Creel: Finding Your Calling And Career
Interview with Colin Creel, author of Perspectives: A Life Guide for Twentysomethings and Crossroads: Navigating Your Calling and Career, Worship.com: Let’s talk about your new book. What age group did you write it for, and why should they read it? Colin Creel: Crossroads was written primarily for individuals in their twenties and thirties, but has been very
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Crossroads: Navigating Your Calling and Career
Colin Creel’s first book, Perspectives: A Life Guide for Twentysomethings helped younger people make decisions about life. Now, he’s written a sequel entitled Crossroads: Navigating Your Calling and Career, a book that delves into the specifics of identifying your vocational calling. Creel, the dean of junior boys at a school in Georgia, has first-hand experience
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Battling Unbelief
Anyone serious about their faith is grieved by their sin. Not just "big" sin but the daily, seemingly insignficant small issues of the heart that reveal our self centeredness and lack of Godward focusing. The result is a noticeable and nagging lack of peace as we struggle with our conscience. One option is to achieve