I welcomed Fred Schmidt’s new book, The Dave Test, into my library, but more importantly into my inner heart, because I found it to be a book that spoke the truth about life and death, even the small lives and deaths in between our birth date and date of death. Schmidt writes out of deep personal pain, but also out of deep conviction born of wrestling with the Holy One, prompted by the crucible of the grave illness and death... Read more
Andy Crouch has a lot to say and brings good street “cred” in saying it. He recently became executive editor at Christianity Today. He’s a senior fellow at the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute. He’s on the governing board at both Fuller Theological Seminary and the John Templeton Foundation. He authored Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. He also served a stint on the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He brings the broad view one only gets from climbing to... Read more
A new book from TinyBuddha.com founder Lori Deschene, The Tiny Buddha’s Guide to Loving Yourself, shares 40 unique perspectives and insights on topics related to loving yourself, such as realizing you’re not broken, accepting your flaws, releasing the need for approval, forgiving yourself, letting go of comparisons, and learning to be authentic. Featuring real stories selected from hundreds of TinyBuddha.com contributors, the book provides an honest look at what it means to overcome critical, self-judging thoughts to create a peaceful, empowered life. As... Read more
Former Jesuit turned J.P. Morgan Managing Director and best-selling author of Heroic Leadership Chris Lowney is the perfect person to pen a book on the new Pope’s leadership style. In Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads, Lowney explores how the Pope’s words and deeds reveal spiritual principles that have prepared him to lead the Church and influence our rapidly changing world. As he shares lessons from this first Jesuit Pope, Lowney in turn encourages and inspires leaders of all shades and... Read more
A response to Dr. David Jeremiah’s book, What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears With Faith By Suzanne Ross In the final chapter of his new book What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears With Faith, Dr. David Jeremiah addresses the question of whether or not we should fear God. In the previous chapters he has taken on one fear after another – including fear of natural calamity, illness, financial loss, of rejection, being alone and... Read more
When it comes to raising our children in the faith, many of us tend to “out-source” our children’s spirituality to the Church. Those religious educators know better than us anyway, and really, there’s just not enough hours in the day to take on one more program. Plus, faith education belongs “over there,” in the religious ed classrooms on Sunday mornings, right? Tim and Sue Muldoon would have us think again. In their new book, Six Sacred Rules for Families: A Spirituality... Read more
Reading "God's Double Agent" begs the question: what are we willing to do help those who are suffering, especially those in China? And what are we willing to lose to follow Jesus? Read more
A new book by a former dissident and pastor of an illegal underground church in China, God’s Double Agent, tells the harrowing story of Bob Fu’s secret life and eventual escape to the U.S. as a refugee in 1997. The remarkable true story shines a bright light on the persecution Christians face in China, as it describes a death-defying faith journey of one man and his wife in and eventually out of their homeland in search of religious freedom. Fu... Read more
It’s this thing about favorite foods. If I say I love something, someone else will hate it so much they’d rather eat a bug (quite tasty in many cultures and high in protein). If I hate it, someone will think me a neo-Nazi for trashing their food. I’m the same way; people who eat liver or mushrooms (For crying out loud, people, you’re eating fungus!!!) need to seek serious help…and soon. Unwittingly, we read the Bible much the same way;... Read more
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” — Ecclesiastes 1:2 Reality LA church founder Tim Chaddick begins his first book, Better, with this quote on vanity from Ecclesiastes, followed by the sentence: “Life not working out the way I thought it would turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.” Weaving his own personal stories of his journey to faith with the ancient words of the “Preacher” in Ecclesiastes, Chaddick explores... Read more
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