Looking for God is a collection of personal and topical essays by Nancy Ortberg, loosely themed around the idea of rethinking/rediscovering God through Jesus.
Each essay has a central theme, a Biblical center, good questions and outstanding- really, really outstanding- real world illustration and application.
While the book doesn’t tell me a lot about Ortberg’s rediscovery of […]
Matthew 6:31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God* above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you […]
Because you have a real life, maybe you can only read one book about Jesus scholarship this year. What’s it going to be?
I love N.T. Wright’s Jesus and The Victory of God, but unless you are used to scholarly exegesis and discussion, you need something aimed more at the non-academic, but not short-changing you on […]
UPDATE: Here’s an example of what Young is writing at his own blog these days.
I cannot tell you how important it is for you to go listen to this interview. If you’ve read The Shack and wondered how the story expresses the faith journey of the author, this is the interview you are waiting for.
William […]
Following the trail of influences from William P. Young’s much maligned book The Shack (a book that’s earned all the right enemies to be commended strongly to all readers of this blog,) I discovered The God Journey Podcast.
I’ve been feasting ever since.
At the Asbury Bloggers Society meeting last night, we had a wide ranging discussion on various aspects of blogging and ministerial formation at the seminary level. One of my suggestions was that a blogger develop a list of “teaching” blogs that exhibit and demonstrate excellence. Use these blogs to ask yourself questions about your own […]
Mark Galli: Beyond Smells and Bells: The Wonder and Power of Christian Liturgy
Well….just go buy this book. I know you plan on buying some other book about things you already know, but you need this book, because it’s absolutely a 512 foot home run on the subject of liturgy in worship, and you know how […]
UPDATE: I agree with Doug Wilson that Wright’s lefty politics is a considerably different matter than his theology in this book.
With Surprised by Hope, N.T. Wright has done several important things.
He has written perhaps his most accessible theological book on an important topic of interest to not only most Christians, but to millions of people […]
A profile of Sara Miles at Religion and Ethics This Week.
Sara Miles.net.
Easily qualifying as the most interesting spiritual memoir I’ve read since Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain, Sara Miles’ Take This Bread is an incredible blast of fresh air into the shelves of ever-less-relevant accumulations of prose that pass for Christian writing these days. Take This […]
A sample chapter is available here.
Bruxy Cavey is the pastor of a Canadian emerging church called “The Meeting House” and author of The End of Religion, a book that gives a good look at the theology of the “mainstream” emerging church.
Cavey pushed plenty of my happy buttons, with early admissions that he was a beneficiary […]
I don’t have a dog, but I’ve had several in the past and I want another one. I’m trying to make up my mind on that one. We loved our Scottie, and Denise loves German Shepherds. We could always love a mutt or two. I could stand the time thinking about something other than the […]
It’s going to be a bit of a book review week here at IM. I’m backed up with several books I’ve needed to review and I’m going to try and get them all in in the next few days.
The Biblical counseling movement has never gotten very high marks from me. I’ll spare you the specifics […]
Ash Wednesday (and the beginning of Lent) is one week from today, so it’s an appropriate time to point you in the direction of some good Lenten Links. If you’ve made the big step into observing Advent, Lent should be next in your appreciation of the Christian year..
Since most of you have already done 40 […]
I don’t plug schools or teaching ministries in this space, and I don’t promote what I’m not convinced represents the values of this audience just because I get some free materials. If I tell you it’s worth your time and money, it will be. And if it proves to be otherwise, I’ll eat crow in […]
Peter Chataway has a great interview with Steve Taylor at his site.
Every year during Martin Luther King, Jr. week I try to show a film that raises issues of racial reconciliation. Last year, one of my teacher friends, Jim Kelly, recommended I use Steve Taylor’s feature film directorial debut, The Second Chance. My initial reaction […]
