Though I have not been able to give this book the time it deserves, I have spent an hour or so working through Ministry by the Book by Derek Tidball. The concept for this book is interesting and helpful. Tidball essentially builds a pastoral theology by examining pastoral roles as they are presented and handled …
Tim Challies reviews Going Public: Your Child Can Thrive in Public School. This looks like a great book for Christian parents trying to raise Christian children. This is not a book that is anti-homeschool or anti-Christian school. The purpose is not to convince you that you ought to place your children in the local public …
For the Month of October, 2011, Think is available as a free audio download at www.christianaudio.com. John Piper is a staple in the libraries of many Christians. In fact, his writings have had a profound impact on the face of evangelicalism in America over the past twenty years. It is not surprising, then, that Piper …
Let this exhort you, then, Christian, to petition God for the holy determination and bravery you must have to follow Christ. Without it you cannot be what you profess. The fearful are those who march for hell (Revelation 21:8); the valiant are they who take heaven by force (Matthew 11:12). Cowards never won heaven. Do …
Martyn Lloyd-Jones: ‘Take no thought for the morrow,’ means ‘Do not be guilty of anxious thoughts about the morrow’. It does not mean that you do not take any thought at all, otherwise the farmer would not plough and harrow and sow. He is looking to the future, but he does not spend the whole …
David K. Naugle‘s, in his book Worldview: The History of a Concept, argues that the enlightenment introduced modernity to the West, and in so doing, destroyed the many myths that existed to explain life and living with a scientific explanation. In other words, the enlightenment reduced the West to only one acceptable meta-narrative, the scientific …
Tim Brister on evangelism and Sowing the Seed of the gospel. I know there are some caveats to this (people already know they are Christians, etc.), but all the aside, this is really sobering to me. It has been by researchers that the average number of times a person will hear the gospel before they …
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the pastorate. (We must resolve that) we …
Danny Akin has put together an expanded and updated list of books for building your theological library. This thing is a beast at 47 pages long, but we are all indebted to Dr. Akin for his diligence in this. I appreciate the quote below from his website. Books are to the minister of the gospel …
New software can tell if you are mean and ugly. Facial recognition, of course, is being used for everything from photo tagging to law enforcement and computer logins these days. This software takes the practice a step further in a high-tech continuation of research aimed at connectingfacial shape and features to personality and character. Sinclair …