Over the next five days, I am simply going to share some words that have impacted me deeply from Parker J. Palmer's outstanding book, Let Your Life Speak. If you have not read this book yet and have questions about your identity, vocation, and living well, please take the time to read it. Here are …
Leading from the Second Chair (Book Review)
Leading from the Second Chair is for you if you are staff person who is not the senior pastor of your church or executive director of your organization. Whether you are an associate pastor in a dual-pastor staff or one among twenty pastors at a mega-church, this book is for you. However, Leading from the …
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Counterfeit Gods – Tim Keller
Tim Keller, pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian in New York and author of many outstanding books such as The Prodigal God and The Reason for God, has just published a new book entitled Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters. Keller is one of the pastors I …
Revealing?: reflections on Willow’s “Follow Me”
I’ve finally taken the chance to review the second book associated with Willow Creek’s Reveal study entitled Follow Me. Better late than never, they say, so I'm sending off some of my reflections here at the blog. Building off of the research from Reveal, this next part of the study looks at spiritual growth, what …
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer and “Life Together”
In my last sermon at Brooklife on 1 Corinthians 12 about the body of Christ and each members' place in it, I mentioned what is in my opinion the best book on the church and true Christian community. That book is Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran theologian, professor, and author …
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