A preacher and professor, Leonard Sweet is the full package. He does well to recognize and respond to the high and mighty “leaders” of today. How does I Am a Follower preach to today’s preachers? First it sets up the distasteful picture of how leaders are defined...
Rumors of God by Darren Whitehead & Jon Tyson
"In fact, we were both captivated by an idea that was brand-new to us. God’s strategy for redemption on the earth was to be carried out by the church." (p. 7) The authors of Rumors of God liken the present state of the Church in the United States to the moments...
Be the People by Carol M. Swain, PH.D.
"A call to reclaim America’s Faith & Promise" This book was gifted to me by booksneeze (www.booksneeze.com), and really is not my kind of read. There is a lot of research done here, and one should certainly offer their respects for the amount of work. The...
Doing Virtuous Business by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
“Virtue,” “Faith,” “Hope,” and “Spiritual.” These are not terms that one associates with BUSINESS nowadays. Malloch, from start to finish, appears to attempt to ingrain in his readers from the corporate world that it is such characteristics that cause a group to...
Max Lucado – Max on Life
Max Lucado - Max on Life Lucado does it again — he is thorough, practical, and candid in his responses to over 170 popular questions and comments. One thing that I like the most about the book is the indexes in the back. There are indexes for both topics and indexes...
The Power Based Life by Mike Flynt
I graduated from my undergraduate program with a double major: Bible & Theology and Youth & Sports Ministries. This is right up the alley of some of the lectures I received while in undergrad, minus the evangelical missions aspect. Flynt is doing a good job of...
The Final Summit by Andy Andrews
I would have been more excited to see the one principle that will save humanity be Jesus Christ. Though I do enjoy the motivating factor behind the text, and I understand why Andrews has the credentials that he does (spoke to four US presidents and at countless...
Outlive Your Life by Max Lucado
This is a book for the one discipling, or the one being discipled; this book is a message of encouragement for anyone who is in a spiritual rut. Sometimes we wonder what we were created for, and why God has the obstacle that He does before us, and this is another...
The Gospel According to Jesus by Chris Seay
Churches are focusing too much on what they ought not do (and when we focus on what we should NOT be doing we tend to be drawn into doing whatever we are most focused on). Seay attempts to resolve our current faltering attempt to “seek first his kingdom and his...
#Fearless by @MaxLucado
I didn’t have a chance to dig through Max’s work myself, but my wife journeyed through it in it’s entirety and she discussed with me some issues that jumped out to her. Max Lucado did it again! If you’ve read his stuff, you’ll love this book. If you haven’t read his...
The #Jesus Manifesto by @LenSweet and @FrankViola
I guess I could have given the text the benefit of the doubt, and at least finished it — but I had an issue with the position that Sweet & Viola put Christ. Too many times I felt that they read the supremacy of Christ in place of Christ’s being seated at the right...
Forgotten God by Francis Chan
"I don’t want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit" (Forgotten God, Chan, p. 142) I just finished up Forgotten God (for the second time), and though the entire book was challenging, this quote keeps ringing in my ears. I think this quote reminds me of...
Review: The Money Answer Book by @DaveRamsey @RamseyShow #money
WHAT A GREAT MONEY GUIDE! I got this book only a couple of days ago, and am really excited to put his “baby steps,” something that I guess is a really common approach for Ramsey, into practice. He ENCOURAGINGLY addresses money in relation to college, relationships...
Living in the Zone by Rote and Pettigrew
LIVING LIFE IN THE ZONE is a great tool for ministry, especially alongside someone vocationally embedded in Sports Ministry (which was a part of my Undergraduate Degree!). The daily readings themselves are a little long, and could be tapered down quite a bit, but they...
Purpose Beyond Our Pain by Meier and Henderson
We have all gone, and will go through, the situations outlined in this book. It is healthy to start the discussion of these matters now, to prepare for these battles.