This year we assembled a set of books for parents to read through with their teenagers. Some of these are heavy theologically, others more practical. It opens with a basic set of recommendations, and then it follows with contributions from a number of our singles. Their insights and remembrances add a great deal to what [...]
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Books for Christian Teenagers (for discipleship)
Posted in Books, Devotional Life, Parenting on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Sufficient Bible, A Prophetic Spirit – Sam Storms
Posted in Bible, Books, Charismatic on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If the Bible is inspired and sufficient, why do we still believe in prophecy? Great question. Sam Storms wrestles with that in his chapter called, “God Still Speaks,” from his book, Convergence. The entire discussion is wonderful, but here are a great couple of paragraphs to chew on:
[We] need to be more precise [...]
Prayer and Study – From Sam Storms
Posted in Books, Prayer on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The person who only thinks and does not pray is as bad and dangerous and unbalanced as the person who only prays and never thinks.”
–Sam Storms, Convergence
The Emergent Journey: Are the Pilgrims Still Making Progress? Part 1
Posted in Bible, Books, Cross, Culture, Gospel, Sin, Theology, tagged emergent, emergent church, journey, mclaren, mystery on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Experience, Journey, Doubt, Traveler, Introspection, Mystery. These are some of the key words of the Emergent movement. The authors of Why We’re Not Emergent rightly begin their book with the first chapter focusing on what emergent’s hold to be of great importance to their entire doctrinal system (though they would say they have NO doctrine…), [...]
Are YOU an Emergent Christian???
Posted in Bible, Books, Culture, Gospel, Theology, tagged A New Kind of Christian, bell, Bible, Blue Like Jazz, christian, doctrine, emergent, emergent church, gagging of God, inspired, journey, kluck, mclaren, paggitt, reformed, scripure, Tomlinson, Velvet Elvis, Vintage Jesus, why we're not emergent by two guys who should be on June 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
“You might be an emergent Christian if: you listen to U2, Moby, and Johnny Cash’s Hurt (sometimes in church)… and always use a Mac; if your reading list consists primarily of Stanley Hauerwas, Henri Nouwen, N.T. Wright, Stan Grenz, Dallas Willard, Brennan Manning, Jim Wallis, Frederick Buechner, David Bosch, John Howard Yoder, Wendell Berry, Nancy [...]
The Shack – A review of William P. Young’s Novel
Posted in Books on June 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
William P. Young’s The Shack now sits at #8 on Amazon’s best-sellers list. When I ordered it, it was #5. It is a solid top ten on the Publishers Weekly trade paperback list and is gaining more press as time goes on, apparently–USA Today, NPR, etc. On the front cover Eugene Peterson says, [...]
Cheap Sovereign Grace music and books
Posted in Books, Music, SGC General on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the month of February, the Sovereign Grace store has a pretty big sale going on. While supplies last, they have the following deals:
Free library rate shipping (within the US)
Sovereign Grace CDs & Download Sets: $6
Accompaniment CDs: $6
Pursuit of Godliness books: $5
Songbook Set: $40
Individual Piano Scores: $1; Piano Score Sets: $6
These are significant discounts [...]
February Fiction: Philip Pullman and the Golden Compass
Posted in Books, February Fiction on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For much of January I was reading Philip Pullman’s trilogy, “His Dark Materials,” of which “The Golden Compass” is the first in the series. The book opens with this sentence: “Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.” Thus [...]
A couple books to consider…
Posted in Books on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just got a couple recommendations from Cumberland Valley Book and Bible Society,
“One of the most common and plaintive questions we get takes some form of the question,”What do you have for my teenager to read?”. Unfortunately there has not been an abundance of material written especially for this very important portion of Christ’s church [...]
“Respectable Sins” by Jerry Bridges
Posted in Books, Gospel, Sin on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for a gift idea, or a way to spend some new Christmas money? Buy Jerry Bridges’ Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate. His audience is Christians, especially ones that seem to be more emotionally reactive to the broad sins of our culture–abortion, homosexuality, greed in politics, CEO corruption–than the sin of their own [...]
