13 Mar SimChurch – Book Review
In SimChurch Doug Estes takes as his basic assumption that the world has moved into the digital age, bound together by technology....
Book Review Tag
08 Mar The Bereavement Ministry Program – Book Review
Given the many demands placed upon pastors, and the hectic pace of life in which we all live and die, The Bereavement Ministry Program: A Comprehensive Guide for Churches is an invaluable resource....
04 Mar The Spirituality of Community – Book Review
Two words in the title of this book may have grabbed your attention as they did mine: “spirituality” and “community”. Both are hot topics in the church and academy, although they often generate more heat than light....
18 Apr Sacrifice the Leader – Book Review
As a leader, who among us has not felt like we have become the sacrifice when someone has shifted their stuff onto us or have blamed us in order to cover their own issues?...
14 Apr Soul Graffiti – Book Review
Through winsome stories, thought-provoking questions and the offer of engaging spiritual practices, Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus offers a fresh consideration of what it means to follow Jesus....
13 Mar A Time for Healing – Book Review
Jody Seymour's book, A Time for Healing, is as the subtitle states, about overcoming the perils of ministry....
04 Mar The New Conspirators – Book Review
At the mention of the emerging church movement, those of us in the so-called traditional church may often respond by dismissing it as a fad for self-indulgent members of the Millennial generation or seizing upon it as the latest church growth scheme to bring in...
04 Mar Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross – Book Review
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross: Contemporary Images of the Atonement is a collection of articles, speeches and thoughts on the atonement from an eclectic collection of Christian thinkers, from C.S. Lewis to Brian McLaren....
26 Feb A Concise Guide to Pastoral Planning – Book Review
A Concise Guide to Pastoral Planning is from the Concise Guide Series produced by Ave Maria Press and authored by Dr. William Pickett....
25 Feb Attentive to God – Book Review
The framework stresses the cultivation of both "Vision and Discernment," after the now classic written by Wood in the '80's which stresses the formation of a theological framework for the "big picture" of ministry, and the case-by-case judgment needed to bring a fitting theological insight...