Books and Book Reviews
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Posted on May 10, 2012, 10:45 am
Topics: Books and Book Reviews, Leadership
Jack Hayford writes about leadership from the biblical perspective of a shepherd and sheep. He affirms that pastors must lead like a shepherd. What does this mean? A shepherd feeds, protects, and cares for his sheep. If he does not do these basic tasks, he is a bad shepherd, a mere hired hand...
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Posted on March 23, 2011, 2:39 pm | 4 comments
Topics: Books and Book Reviews
Over the last month or so Mars Hill pastor Rob Bell’s Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived has garnered much pre-publication attention. A colleague told me that it has been discussed on page one of CNN.com and that it is vying with none other than Justin Bieber for attention.
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Posted on January 23, 2010, 9:38 pm
Topics: Books and Book Reviews
We're just starting this Network project and I'm the so-called "Guide" for this page. I guess that makes some sense. I've been engaged in this calling for more than 30 years. (Yikes!) But for all the topics that we cover, I'd like your help. For example, what books are you reading that help with any part of our calling and task?
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Posted on January 20, 2010, 4:45 pm | 1 comment
Topics: Books and Book Reviews
Books spun from conferences often make better insulation for pastors’ studies than they spark spiritual fire. This book will keep you warm, all right, but not because it leans against an outside wall.
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Posted on January 9, 2010, 2:36 pm
Topics: Books and Book Reviews
Groothuis's method cannot work in much of God's world. What about the many thoughtful, reflective Christians who do not read deeply? To judge them unworthy contributors to Christian discourse promotes an elitism inconsistent with God's abundant Grace.
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Posted on January 8, 2010, 5:23 pm
Topics: Books and Book Reviews
I don't know about anyone else, but as I try to read a book by someone about whom I know nothing, I constantly ask, "Who is this person?” and, "What does s/he REALLY do?" As I approach cynical dotage, ever fewer writers of "religion/spirituality" books make it past those barrier questions. That label has mercifully kept certain books closed to me as ...
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