The Gospel hasn’t changed and doesn’t change, but our witness to it can and must be adapted to the times. Why and How for our Now !?!?! I grew up in the era of Evangelism Explosion (EE) a method of sharing the Gospel that felt somewhat like selling used cars. I say that, making that …
Bill Hybels’ The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond is a joy to read. Bill weaves the tapestry of his personal life and ministry leadership – punctuated by defining moments of sensing God’s still small voice, which Hybels describes as God’s whisper. I must confess I was hesitant to read …
Paul Miller’s A Praying Life is a Five-Star practical guide to establishing, or reestablishing, or simply improving the prayerful devotional life of a Christian who is committed to conversational intimacy with the Almighty God. I loved this book. I listened to it on audiobook and I will definitely re-read it in paperback. This one is …
This morning my Coffee and Contemplation is on life, abundant life –– through a reflection on death. I recognize the subject is… …morbid. But it is needful for grounding ourselves to the never-ceasing reality of human life which is so much larger than our biological life. This reflection is personal; actually, quite personal. It is …
This morning, nearly a dozen years after purchasing the book, I finished reading Gordon Dalbey’s Sons of the Father: Healing the Father-Wound in Men Today. As I prepared to write this review, I noticed on Amazon that Dalbey released an updated edition one month after I bought the 1991 edition that I read. I included …
In her The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, Abigail Favale combines a narrative memoir of her life with a deep examination of women’s studies –– her life study. Favale, formerly an Evangelical Christian, shares her amazing journey from nominal Church life through her years of study on feminism and gender concerns. The memoir of …
Gary Black’s The Theology of Dallas Willard: Discovering Protoevangelical Faith, is an invaluable asset to a fuller understanding of Dallas Willard’s insights into living a with-God life. However, the book, for the most part, is Gary Black’s self-published (Pickwick) doctoral dissertation, with some (perceivably minor) adaptation “for the general public”. The idea of the Black’s …
Over the last few weeks, I semi-simultaneously read three books that create a biographical sketch of Dallas Willard’s life. The resounding themes of all three, packed with testimony of influenced lives, is Dallas’s radiant life and radiant death. This book review describes Gary Moon’s Eternal living: Reflections on Dallas Willard’s teaching on Faith & Formation. …
Gary Moon’s biography of Dallas Willard’s life is captured in Moon’s book, Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower. Moon, from the outset, seeks to present a biography of Willard that enables readers of Willard’s books to connect with the profound character of Christian spiritual formation in the life that …
Scripture reminds us that love is patient and kind; that it doesn’t envy or boast; that it isn’t self-seeking…. Scripture also lists love first among the spiritual-life fruit (the produce) that the Holy Spirit grows in those who follow Christ with intentionality. The mystery of understanding God as Trinity is love. God is Love. Love …
