I just completed watching the documentary Hell House with a group of my advanced Bible students. It’s giving us an opportunity to ask and discuss important issues about our own experiences of Christian evangelism. Several students have participated in Hell Houses, while others find it to be offensive and disturbing. If you don’t know whatContinue reading “Thoughts on “Hell House:” An Evangelicalism Eager To Leave”
Category Archives: Recommendations and Reviews
Recommendation and Review by Ryan Cordle: The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight
Trevin Wax doesn’t like the book very much. I’d like to welcome Ryan Cordle as guest blogger today with this review of Scot McKnight’s new book. In addition to his recent graduation from Ohio Christian University and joining the faculty where I teach as an English teacher, Ryan is my son-in-law. He’s a fine writerContinue reading “Recommendation and Review by Ryan Cordle: The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight”
Two Book Recomendations For My Post-Evangelical Friends
Two recent releases from Inter-Varsity Press will be of interest to those readers who identify with post-evangelicalism. The first is the Pocket Dictionary of Church History by Fuller Seminary’s Nathan Feldmeth. It comes in at just over 150 pages. IVP has recently released a series of Pocket Dictionaries that make useful, but longer, reference materialContinue reading “Two Book Recomendations For My Post-Evangelical Friends”
Recommendation and Review: Saving Paradise by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker
A lot more interesting than Brian Mclaren, and guranteed to make you twice as mad. Sometimes I feel like I’ve wasted a lot of my reading time. Let me explain that one. I read many books, and when I look back at them- or over my shoulder at them- it’s very obvious to me thatContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Saving Paradise by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker”
Another Denise Spencer Christmas Program
Here’s another- more recent 🙂 – Denise Spencer Christmas program. These are simply programs appropriate for many churches looking for something that allows traditional music and encourages a Biblical theme. The first Sunday of Advent is just over two months away. Time to start thinking about such things. Denise has a real gift for simpleContinue reading “Another Denise Spencer Christmas Program”
Rob Mathes + Treasury of Daily Prayer Online Demo + New T-shirts at NRP
Run, run now to the Trinity Church in Greenwich website and get Rob Mathes’s sermon/song from August 17th. Just do it. It’s called “London-Dublin.” I’m with Bill Kinnon- Rob has a future as a preacher. What wonderful interaction with the Psalms. Incredible stuff. The sermon will disappear in a few days so get it asap.Continue reading “Rob Mathes + Treasury of Daily Prayer Online Demo + New T-shirts at NRP”
The Frank Viola Project (And Why You Should Take It Seriously)
UPDATE: Ben Witherington has done a multi-part in-depth review of Reimagining Church. 1, 2 3 4. Frank Viola’s response part 1 and part 2. OK. I cheated. I maybe kindof promised a review, but after reading the books, I decided I didn’t want to join the debate. I wanted to say something else, namely this:Continue reading “The Frank Viola Project (And Why You Should Take It Seriously)”
Recommendation: The (Lutheran) Treasury of Daily Prayer
For the past several days I’ve been browsing a pre-publication copy of a new product from Concordia Press called The Treasury of Daily Prayer. I have to admit that I’ve never been particularly excited about any book called “Treasury.” It’s a title I’d be reluctant to use for any serious resource. So aside from thatContinue reading “Recommendation: The (Lutheran) Treasury of Daily Prayer”
A Response to “From Wheaton To Rome” at Jesus Creed
Scot Mcknight has a new book out called Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy. It’s an interesting discussion of the reasons people deconvert and convert, both in and out of their own traditions. The chapters cover conversion to unbelief, from Judaism to Christianity, from Rome to evangelicalism and from evangelicalism to Rome.Continue reading “A Response to “From Wheaton To Rome” at Jesus Creed”
Recommendation and Review: Heaven Misplaced by Douglas Wilson
When you hear the term “postmillennialism,” what comes to your mind? The church taking over society? Naive optimism? A failure to notice that the world is getting worse and worse, not better and better? Discussions in print of postmillennialism are rare enough, but simple and understandable ones are nearly unheard of. The average student ofContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Heaven Misplaced by Douglas Wilson”
The Internet Monk Archives 