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…
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Overcoming the Blank Page
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…
Do The Work
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…
Culture Making
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…
Attractional to Missional
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…
The Unlikely Disciple
I just finished reading the book The Unlikely Disciple last night. Took me about 4 days to read it, bits and pieces at a time. That is really the only way I know how to read. Kevin is a senior English lit major at Brown University…which makes this the first book I’ve ever read by…