Tag Archive: Reading

Sep
08

A Transformed Heart

I had a lot of people ask me about the book I mentioned Sunday at church.  The name of the book is “Crazy Love”, and the author is Francis Chan.  Here is a blurb on it: The God of the universe is crazy about you! His love is the most powerful thing in the world …

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Mar
05

The Power of Stories

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Facts and figures are good, spreadsheets rule, and no one enjoys a good pie chart more than I do!  But as fun (yes, fun) as they are to make and look at, none of them inspire.  None of them allow us to capture a vision or imagine the unimaginable. That’s what stories do best. This …

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Feb
08

Concentric Circles of Concern

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I’m in the middle of of a class called “Contemporary Evangelism”.  Rather than have us read and interact on a traditional textbook, they are having us read six different books with six different approaches to evangelism in the 21st century.  I have particularly enjoyed the one I just finished reading called Concentric Circles of Concern …

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Jan
10

Jack’s Life

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I just finished reading Jack’s Life, a biography of C.S. Lewis written by his stepson Douglas Gresham.  It is a short book, but one packed full of glimpses into the man who brought us The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves and so many other great books. If you like …

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Dec
30

The whole Bible…one day at a time

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Nothing will change your life more than spending time in God’s Word.  I’ve spoken to several people this past year that have managed to read the entire Bible in 2008.  Several of them (my wife included) have done it with this bible: the New Living Translation of the One Year Chronological Bible. This particular Bible …

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