The Shack – William Young

The Shack was not on my reading list.  I’d heard about it, some good and some bad.  Most of the bad had to do either with how God was depicted as an African American woman named Papa or how the Trinity was portrayed.  In any case, I had a pile of books on my wish [...]

Why We’re Not Emergent

(by two guys that should be) Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck.
I’ve read and posted reviews on a couple of books by what many would call “emergent” church leaders.  You can find reviews for The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian McLaren and Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell on this blog.  Dan Kimball is also mentioned [...]

Scared – by Tom Davis

I’ve read Fields of the Fatherless and Red Letters by Tom Davis.  In both of these books Davis uses his  passion to convict the reader to care for orphans, the poor, the down-trodden, and AIDS victims in Africa.  When I heard he was writing a novel that wove these human sorrows into a story I [...]

Crazy Love – Francis Chan

A friend of mine recommended Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God to me.  Prior to that I had not heard of Francis Chan.  My friend let me down in a way.  Before you recommend this book to anyone, you need to provide a warning.  If you’re comfortable in your Christian life, good family, good [...]

Don’t Waste Your Life – John Piper

I read this book on the way to Liberia last summer.  If you read or listen to much of John Piper you know that he has a passion for people to understand the joy that comes from the glory of Jesus.  For him, everything is about the cross, the price Jesus paid for our sins [...]

Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell

I am not quite sure how to review this book. It was an easy read, I liked it, but I’m not sure what I think about it. Does this make any sense?
I’ll give it a shot anyway.
If I had to pick out one of the themes of this book it is that the [...]

They Like Jesus – Not the Church

I picked up Dan Kimball’s, They Like Jesus But Not the Church, for many of the same reasons that I read Brian McLaren’s book, The Secret Message of Jesus. I had read some controversial reviews of Kimball’s book, plus I had heard his name mentioned with the Emergent Church movement which I wanted to learn [...]

Fields of the Fatherless by Tom Davis

A couple of months ago our church encouraged all of us to take a faith assessment test. This was not the typical “spiritual gifts” test that churches offer from time to time. It was a test that asked many questions about what you believe along with an equal number of questions asking if [...]

The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren

A few months ago I came across the term, “emergent church”. This movement seemed to have a lot of good points about the problems in our church today. However, I read some controversial articles about this movement as well. One of the names that came up in my research was Brian McLaren. Most notably I [...]