The Rob Bell Show on Oprah Winfrey Network Well, stop reading what everybody else is writing about Rob Bell and see it for yourself here. Take a moment, watch and listen to these clips and decide for yourself. Will you be sitting in on a couple of episodes? What are...
#Friends Are Friends Forever… Right? @jonathanholmes and The Company We Keep
"These were the nights we felt alive. These were the tears I knew you'd cry. Here's to goodbye, cause tomorrow's gonna come too soon." - Eve 6 That song echoed through my head as I walked off the football field of my high school graduation. It was a class song that I...
Can Churches Partnering Together Resolve Church Division?
Why does something so simple, so intuitive, so clear in the Christian faith, so hard, awkward, and difficult? Churches partnering together. Authors Chris Bruno and Matt Dirks do their best to lay a biblical framework for why churches should partner together. They...
Portent by Michael Heiser @mheiser @kirkdalepress
The Portent is book two in a great science fiction style novel series. Before The Portent, we journeyed alongside Dr. Scott in the first part of The Façade Saga. If you see the Portent as just another novel by just another author than sit for just a moment and get...
From This Day Forward offers simple steps to fail-proof your marriage
It seems as if every year there are multiple books released on the topic of marriage. There are a few that stand out as ones that are classics and are thus highly recommended by pastors and other people in ministry. Although From This Day Forward is a new book in this...
Jesus Prom by Jon Weece @NelsonBooks
Jesus Prom: Life Gets Fun When You Love People Like God Does by Jon Weece (Nelson Books, 2014) Buy Jesus Prom at Amazon or Thomas Nelson. Nouns need verbs. Jon Weece says that is a spiritual truth, just as much as it is a grammatical truth. That's what this book is...
Free to Be A Slave
People have told me much about freedom over the years. They say that it means to “live your life – it’s yours!” That it’s to “just try to be a good person and do what makes you happy.” They say that I’m too tied up in focusing on God. “It just seems like there are so...
‘Dang It.’ Moments
Have you ever had an experience with self-realization that could only be expressed with a “dang it”? Let me give you an example: Several years ago I was in a discussion group with other college-aged people. If I remember correctly, we were at the home of the Student...
Façade by Michael Heiser and Kirkdale Press
I had trouble starting the Façade because do not buy into the whole extraterrestrial hoopla. In short, there is enough stuff to worry about under the clouds that I don't see the use in daydreaming about stuff beyond our broken world. Many are probably turned off to...
Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man by Robert Stein @ivpacademic
Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man: A Commentary on Mark 13 by Robert H. Stein - IVP Academic, 2014 Buy Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man at Amazon and InterVarsity Press When we approach the Gospel of Mark, no passage is more perplexing than Mark...
The Need For The Relational Pastor by @RootAndrew
It's crazy to think that I've been in full-time vocational ministry for almost a decade now. I had my early beginnings at Thomas Road Baptist Church, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Throughout my entire time in ministry one thing has remained constant, relationship....
Help Send 250,000 ESV Study Bibles
I was incredibly encouraged to receive this note from Crossway Books. As many of you may know, they are a non-for-profit publication with an extremely keen vision to see the message of the Gospel stretch out into the ends of the earth. They're not all talk — and this...
Cathedrals by @TenthAveNorth @theMICAHANDREW, A Review
I've been listening to Tenth Avenue North since their debut album OVER AND UNDERNEATH released in 2008. I instantly fell in love with Mike Donehey's vocals and catchy melodies that supported lyrics that drew me straight to the heart of God. The week after I got the...
Finding Joy During Advent w/ @JohnPiper #Advent
Advent does not have to be overlooked this season. ad·vent: noun - the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event. During the Christian season of Advent we focus solely on the arrival of Jesus. The birth of the Savior. Immanuel - God with us. The point of advent is...
Contemplating Prayer with Tim Keller
It's 5:00 A.M.. I struggle to keep my eyes open as I sit hunched over with my face on the ground. Between the lack of mental alertness and 60° on the thermostat I struggle to form even the weakest prayer. Why is this thing we call prayer so hard? Does it matter? How...