Like John Harper
The Truth About the Lordship of Christ by John MacArthur It is my presumption that I was not the intended audience for this volume in the Truth About trilogy of books. Each page presents a nugget of truth with a single text that is meant to support the idea. For a new Christian, it would [...]
Hand to the Plow
Sifted by Wayne Cordeiro Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. Luke 22:31 Everyone in ministry hopes to avoid it, some even convince themselves that it might be possible that it will never be visited upon them, but sooner or later a period of testing will set in upon their lives. Some [...]
Atheism is a Form of Cognitive Dysfunction
A Shot of Faith {To the Head} by Mitch Stokes PhD. Atheism is a Form of Cognitive Dysfunction Dr. Stokes includes the section heading above in the closing chapters of this excellent book, not in a provocative sense or to garner cheap attention, but to emphasize the strength of the logical and philosophical arguments in [...]
Terra Incognita
People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of shore. Many Christians will proclaim a willingness to follow the Holy Spirit wherever He leads them until the moment arrives when they actually have to take the first steps, then we hesitate. Through the years we have become expert at all [...]
Burial Cloth and Neatness
The Jesus We Missed by Patrick Henry Reardon The folding of the kerchief may have been completely unconscious. I do not find this hard to believe. The universal Christ, the eternal Word in whom all things subsist, was still the same Jesus to whom an act of elementary neatness came naturally. It was in reading [...]
Holding Treasure in Open Hands
The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn Quite simply, you cannot argue with this book. It is simultaneously convicting and edifying as the Treasure Principle does not come from the mind of Brother Alcorn, it comes directly from the Scriptures. Ultimately, the reader cannot arrive at any conclusion other than everything we treasure belongs to God [...]
How Long Will You Love Your Simple Ways?
The Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Steven K. Scott How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver! Proverbs 16:16 Scott’s book comes to the reader presenting an attractive idea; follow and apply each of the hundreds of proverbs to your life and you will be the beneficiary [...]
Teach Me Some Melodious Sonnet
Then Sings My Soul Book 3 by Robert J. Morgan Unlike other books of this genre that provide insight into the background of our favorite hymns, Then Sings My Soul inspires. Christians raised on the worship music of today will discover the passion and depth of songs that they had never considered including in a [...]
In Him All Things Hold Together
Jesus + Nothing = Everything by Tullian Tchividjian Thomas Paine described the crisis of revolution as the “times that try men’s souls”, a season of life in which one would have to be undeniably sure of the foundation on which his feet rested. Without that assurance there would be no resistance against which to create [...]
Snipping the Tail of Rupert’s Drops
As readers have come to expect from Dr. Sweet, an upending of long-held paradigms is to be found in the pages of I Am a Follower. Less about mimicking the the ego eimi statements of the Savior and more about challenging modern perceptions of the Mission, Sweet’s book orients around the idea that leadership was [...]
