Here’s an excerpt from one of my latest reading delights… For over thirty years I have been pursuing a desperate course with an impossible speed. It is not that I have been misguided – only that I have forgotten to see, feel, touch, and taste. I would not retrace a single step – yet I … Continue reading »
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Review: Frequency: Walk with God the way you’re wired
Frequency by Eric Parks and Casey Bankord is a new book coming out in February which is bound to be popular in some Christian circles. It has a foreword by John Ortberg. That’s because this book is part of the Monvee offering, a programme for the spiritual growth of individuals and churches which has been championed … Continue reading »
Review: With
I was quite pleased to discover Skye Jethani’s latest book, With, available for review at BookSneeze.com. It’s one of those which I had become aware of, wanted to read, but was probably never going to get round to buying. Having finished it, I can affirm that it was worth a read and is the kind … Continue reading »
Pastor-theologian
I think I’ve discovered how I want to spend the rest of my life. Listen to this… One cannot be a pastor without also being a theologian, one who speaks and lives knowingly out of the center of the ecumenical, catholic, and evangelical faith of the church. Andrew Purves in Reconstructing Pastoral Theology.
Review: Living Close to God (When you’re not good at it)
Living Close to God by Gene Edwards was provided to me as an e-book for free courtesy of WaterbrookMultnomah in return for an honest review. This book is an invitation to ‘turn to the Lord’, in the writer’s own words. It seeks to offer an opening to ‘a spiritual life for Christians who are not naturally … Continue reading »
Storied grace
Jesus writes beautiful lives into being. Storied grace. Rainbow strands woven amongst the drab greys and browns of brokenness and sin. Beauty out of ashes. Hope out of despair. I love the church. This church. LifeGiving Church. In all her messiness, she still makes my breath catch. Tears still spring to my eyes at the … Continue reading »
Review: The Secret Life of a Fool
This galley copy of the e-book was provided to me by http://www.netgalley.com in return for a fair review. The Secret Life of a Fool is the story of Andrew Palau’s life. It tells of the tender-loving care of his parents whilst he was growing up, even as he began to turn his back on faith and … Continue reading »
In returning and rest
I’ve just recently started writing for an online magazine called Provoketive, which is based in the U.S. It’s exciting to be published by someone else other than me(!) and what I’m writing for that site will go to a far wider – and different – audience than I have here. But, because what I plan … Continue reading »
Review: Heaven is for Real
This e-book was provided to me for free courtesy of the BookSneeze programme. I have to say that I wasn’t sure whether I was going to like Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. It’s the story of Burpo’s son’s visions of heaven in the context of a life-threatening episode of appendicitis … Continue reading »
His song is with me
This morning, I woke up with a sense that God had drawn near to me while I was still asleep. The Psalms describe this, in fact. Listen to this from Psalm 42:8… By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me – a prayer to the God of my life. … Continue reading »
