1. Raniero Cantalamessa, Come, Creator Spirit: Meditations on the Veni Creator (Liturgical Press, 2003) This book is one of the finest treatments of the Holy Spirit and is structured as commentary on an ancient prayer, “Veni Creator.” It is packed [...]
Ask any pastor or lay leader and they will confirm that tension and anxiety are no strangers to the local church. Whether it centers around worship and music, an age-level ministry, or a set of complex relationship dynamics, tension and [...]
Earlier this year, while at a denominational church planter training, I picked Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch (Regal Books, 2007) out of a stack of other books sheerly on the quality of cover design. It didn’t disappoint. Nelson [...]
I have been encouraged by the recent conversation about the renewal of Wesleyan orthodoxy in the blogosphere and on twitter. (For a brief introduction to this conversation read, “Faith In Action” by Andrew Thompson, “Five Hopes for #andcanitbe” by Matt [...]
Andy Stanley is one of the most influential leaders in American Christianity today, widely read and listened to. Though he has published on his ministry approach and strategy previously, Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend (Zondervan, [...]
Rob Bell, author of Love Wins, has recently published a new book entitled, What We Talk about When We Talk about God. Those who are regular readers of my blog will recall that when Bell published Love Wins I wrote [...]
While National Human Trafficking Awareness Month has passed, the fight against human trafficking continues steadily. One month later, it is worth being reminded about our world’s largest injustice. In our world today there are millions of people who are served [...]
With the release of Part 1 of his new commentary series on the book of Acts, we sat down with Dr. Craig Keener to discuss Luke as a historian and how Acts compares with other works in its historical context. [...]
Matt LeRoy and Jeremy Summers are church leaders who are passionate about spiritual disciplines and their transformative power. They got together and wrote Awakening Grace: Spiritual Practices to Transform Your Soul (Wesleyan Publishing House, 2012). Below is an interview on [...]
J.D. Walt, Seedbed’s Sower-in-Chief, interviews David Dorn, the producer of the PREPOSTEROUS Project—a free, online video Bible study for youth and young adults. JD: Why “PREPOSTEROUS”? David: PREPOSTEROUS means something “absurd or ridiculous.” What Jesus says is preposterous when you [...]
On a recent Sunday, we celebrated the sacrament of baptism, received by the child of a new family who joined that same day. After asking questions of faith and commitment of the parents, I turned to the congregation and asked [...]
What are the Gospels for? Putting it another way, why did Jesus live? In this book review, Nathan Brasfield shows us why reclaiming N.T. Wright’s patricular reading of the Gospels in How God Became King is important if the church is to understand the person and work of Jesus correctly.
