Worth Reading
What I recommend, sometimes what has been recommended to me, for the lifelong pursuit of wisdom
A Severe Mercy
What is the book recommendation that will appeal immediately to the greatest number of potential readers? How about this: Once you begin reading this book, you will not be able to put it down. That was my experience, decades ago, with A...
Paul For Everyone by N.T.Wright
Getting the transformative power of the Scriptures into our lives depends in large measure in getting into them, listening to them when read and preached upon, studying them, calling them to mind, trusting their testimonies. Urging people...
About Church and The Younger Generations . . .
Sustainable Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries
Growing Young by Kara Powell, Jake Mulder, and Brad Griffin
For insights into youth ministry, Sustainable Youth Ministry is hard to beat. I reread it while reading for the first time, Growing...
Life Together
Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I recommend this work without reservation” is the cliché that begins or ends many book reviews. When it comes to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together, it is an endorsement that, though postive and true...
The Practice of The Presence of God
"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.” It's gems like this that have put The Practice of The Presence of God on the A-List...
Lament For A Son
In LAMENT FOR A SON we meet a preeminent philosopher not as a thinker, but as a father. I first met Nicholas Wolterstorff four decades ago as an undergraduate in the classroom, then then saw him again in a small seminar of graduate...