Growing up with a mother who was a pastor’s wife with Schizophrenia

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In her new book, Troubled Minds, Amy Simpson bravely shares her own story of how her mother's mental health affected her upbringing. She speaks of not feeling she could tell any of her friends about her mother's mental illness.  Troubled Minds also weaves in experiences shared by other Christians, and shares the results of a survey of church leaders on the subject. This is an excellent book for those who have no understanding of mental illness, but it also has a great message for those who do … [Read more...]

A New Book That Jack Hayford, Joe Carter, and I Highly Recommend

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My friend Frank Viola has just released a new book called God’s Favorite Place on Earth that highlights the massive benefits that come to us from accepting Jesus, rejecting bitterness, and being freed from a guilty conscience, fear and doubt. You can read a sample of the book for free. This is a book should help you gain a new perspective as you look at EVERYTHING. It’s a quick, inspiring, and entertaining read. In addition, if you get the book between May 1st to May 7th, you will also … [Read more...]

Wait to buy Frank Viola’s new book and get Raised With Christ FREE with lots of other loot

We Christians need to be better at promoting one another's books. Especially the ones we LIKE! Unfortunately, too often it seems like the best way to get a book sold to conservative Christians is to write something they hate. We then fall in like and say how terrible a book is, and we all like lemmings go out and buy it so we can "defend the gospel" and in so doing propel the latest heretical book to stratospheric levels of sales! I almost wish I could start some kind of controversy about my … [Read more...]

The Ramifications of the Resurrection – interview on Knowing the Truth

I had a great time today as a guest on Kevin Boling's radio show talking about the resurrection of Jesus. It is encouraging to see every Easter the increase in interest in my book. But, in a way, the fact that this all comes mostly at Easter time is proof positive that the book, and the ideas in it are still very needed. I am sure that books about the cross of Jesus are bought all year round. It is time that books on the resurrection were read all year too!  So, this Easter, why not use the … [Read more...]

Frank Viola interviews me about my book on the resurrection

Frank Viola was kind enough to interview me about my book: As we consider Easter this year, I want to draw attention to my friend Adrian Warnock’s recent book Raised with Christ. The book is an excellent treatment on the resurrection of Jesus . . . why it’s important and how it applies to our lives today. Adrian Warnock blogs at Patheos, and serves on the leadership team of Jubilee Church, London. He is passionate about refocusing the church on the resurrection. He is also keen to … [Read more...]

New review for “Raised With Christ”

One of the marvellous things about writing a book is that sometimes you get to hear about people who have picked it up months or even years later. It is of course something new to them, and sometimes the book blesses and encourages them even as it once did yourself as you wrote it. So, I was really pleased to read this new review of my book, Raised With Christ: I consider myself Reformed. One of the things that means is that the cross is central to my understanding of the gospel. I … [Read more...]

What is a Christian?

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I believe it is very important that we broaden our definition of Christian, but at the same time narrow our definition of Evangelical. Very often people confuse the two these days. The Evangelical movement has always been a movement within the wider Christian movement. Often it has been accused of believing that only other Evangelicals are really Christians. It is no wonder then, that some today do not like it when people suggest they are probably not an Evangelical. The latest in a long line of … [Read more...]

Listen to this new interview about Jesus' resurrection and why I wrote a book about it

I don't pay much attention to the sales figures for my book.  I do know two things about them though.  Firstly, the publisher told me they were happy with the sales, especially for a first time author without an "offline" platform.  Secondly, the total number of sales is much fewer than the number of readers of this blog.I am also aware that there are many new readers who might somehow have missed that I wrote a book that argues that at least since the Reformation we have shamefully neglected … [Read more...]

I don't just believe in God, I met with him this morning

We Christians today don't often talk about our spiritual experiences. There are all kinds of valid reasons for that.  However, as the following section of my book Raised With Christ shows, Packer and the Puritans disagree with us.  Now when Packer and the Puritans would seek to correct us, we should sit up and at least take note: It is remarkable how infrequently experiences such as those described below are mentioned, either during preaching or in modern Christian books. Unfortunately, many … [Read more...]

Christmas Giveaway

Check out the great things you can win with the newsletter! Sign up at the bottom of this post if you haven't yet signed up for access to exclusive content, free chapters (some months) and the chance to win great resources.  The newsletter will go out later today so it is not too late to sign up and possibly win.  Remember, once the mail goes out, it is a case of first come first served! Finally Alive by John Piper - 10 copies available to win! Available to those in the USA and UK only. Why … [Read more...]