Being that I’m writing a book on holiness I figured it would be important to read what others who have gone before me have had to say on the subject. While my end goal for someone reading my book might be different than these other writers, it was extremely helpful for me to engage with [...]

As my semester of seminary has finally finished I’ve been doing some thinking about the value of it all. I sit in class for hours on end each week listening to lectures while taking notes, engaging in discussion around issues of the Bible, church ministry, culture, and theology, and I wonder what the true value [...]

By now I bet many of you have heard about Blaine Hogan’s first book titled, Untitled (don’t worry, you’re not a loser if you haven’t heard of the book, it only released 10 days ago). Yep, Untitled, that’s the real title. And it’s something he explains in the first few pages of the book. While [...]

Studies show that my generation has what some call an “entitlement complex.” We want and feel we deserve jobs and roles with great titles, but we do not want to do the work to get there or the work needed to do the job well. I’ve always prided myself in being a person who gets [...]

I just finished reading Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch. It was a book I really enjoyed. Andy comes at the conversation of how Christians should interact with culture from a more Biblical, artistic, and intellectual perspective than anything I’ve read before. Most books on this topic tend to use statistics and [...]

I’ve been reading a book titled “Change the World” by Mike Slaughter. Like usual, rather than just writing a boring book review, I’d rather discuss one of the key points from the book. Early in the book Mike says this: “The church mastered slick marketing campaigns that scratched the itches of the ‘me generation.’ We [...]