The Hole In Our Gospel: Reviewed

My latest book as a Thomas Nelson book reviewer was The Hole In Our Gospel by Richard Stearns. Stearns is the president of WorldVision and this book outlines both how he came to find himself president of this magnificent non-profit and how it has changed him (transformed might be a better signifier).
It starts with [...]

Christianity in Crisis: Reviewed

One advantage of being a blogger is occasionally being sent books to read for free. It’s always nice to get the package in the mail and open it up and find some new tome to check out.
My latest experience with this is the book, “Christianity in Chrisis: 21st Century” by Hank Hanegraaff. I [...]

YouVersion 2.0

I’m a sucker for trying beta applications. Often — I log in once and never use them again. In fact, I’d say that probably describes the majority of the ones that I try. A good friend though early last week got me access to try the newest version of YouVersion online Bible [...]

GloboChrist:Reviewed

While in Vegas, I did find the time to start and/or finish three different books. The best of those three is actually the third book in the Church and Postmodern Culture series called GloboChrist: The Great Commission Takes a Postmodern Turn. It is the best short book on missiology I’ve read since Transforming [...]

Batman: Year One — Reviewed

I’ve had numerous people over the past year or so tell me how much they thought I’d enjoy the Batman graphic novels. I thought about trying to read some last summer but didn’t know where to start. This past spring, though, I figured that out: Batman: Year One, Batman: A Long Halloween and [...]

Iron Man:Reviewed

Last night, Juli and I saw [Iron Man][1] after an enjoyable dinner with the Doke’s. If you haven’t heard about it, click the previous link to go to Apple’s trailer page. Anyways, I really enjoyed this movie as it was both action-packed and quite enjoyable. Having never read the comics, I can’t [...]

Jesus for President: Imperial language vs Gospel Language

To write a little more about Jesus for President, I thought I’d go over one of the points I found quite interesting: the comparison of Gospel terminology with imperial terminology. Most of this I’d read before, but it was nice having it in the easy chart format.Basilea:

Imperial: the kingdom (empire) of Caesar
Gospel: the kingdom [...]

Jesus for President, Initial Thoughts

I finished Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw yesterday. It was wonderful. The first thing worth talking about (which is one of the first things you are going to notice about the book) is the design. It’s put together like no other book I’ve read. The aesthetic is [...]

Serve God, Save the Planet: Reviewed Briefly

I finished Serve God, Save the Planet by Matthew Sleeth tonight. My initial thoughts are good not great. It’s a practical book about creation care (Christianese for environmental activism). I’ll talk about the good first. The chapter answering typical Christian excuses for a lack of any creation care ethic was quite [...]

Atonement:reviewed

Yesterday some friends called asking if I wanted to join them for Atonement, one of the movies currently out. I quickly agreed since this movie has been on my radar since late last summer when reviews started popping up on various sites I respect. Thankfully, it did not disappoint. I’ll try to [...]