The Grace of God is my first read of the oft heralded Andy Stanley. The book covers Scriptural examples of God’s grace, from the very beginning (i.e. Creation) on through the rest of the Biblical text. Not all instances, but the highlights. Each chapter brings up a new instance. They are presented to remind the reader of the wondrous, varied grace that God has been showing and giving. The book [...]
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The book I’m touching on here is Shannon O’Dell’s Transforming Church in Rural America: Breaking All the Rurals. Focusing on rural churches, O’Dell emphasized the struggles going on in rural Christianity, with churches being older, more so stuck in their old traditions, not impacting their community or evangelizing and growing. This is a key quote, fundamental to this book: I personally believe that rural America is one of the most [...]
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Chris Seay’s The Gospel According to Jesus: A Faith that Restores All Things attempts to refocus Christians to a proper understanding of the Gospel message. Centering his discussion around a reported misunderstanding of the terms righteousness and justification by the majority of Christians (at least here in the US), Seay sought to clear up those misunderstandings and get the reader to grasp, and be able to present, the fundamental message [...]
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We’ve had Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling: A 365 Day Journaling Devotional for some time and it has been great. My wife would even read it to the kids much of the time. When we saw the devotional coming out for children, we had to jump on that. Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions For Kids is not going to disappoint. The Scripture readings and references between the original (older folks) version and [...]
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Excellent, profound quote from Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited.
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The Least Among You was inspired by the story of Richard Kelly shortly after the Watts riots in the 60′s. Kelly, as part of his probation, entered an all white seminary and was quickly thrust into the activity of change and integration. While there is a great story underneath, the movie never brought it out. We were treated to a fairly poor Hallmark-esque depiction of the trials and struggles and [...]
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I saw someone else throw out their future reading list and thought I would put on (virtual) paper the books that plan and hope to read between now and the Summer. Some of these are contingent on my actually obtaining a copy of the text mentioned, but a boy can hope. Currently Reading: Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus by Ched Myers. The Politics [...]
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