Tim Weston

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Review: Grace: For Those Who Think They Don’t Measure Up

While at Creation Festival this summer, I picked up Bob Lenz’s book Grace: For Those Who Think They Don’t Measure Up, and, after catching up with other books ahead of it in my reading queue, I finally got around to reading it.
At 227 pages, Grace is a fairly quick read, but it contains lots of [...]

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Review: How Starbucks Saved My Life

While traveling a couple weekends ago, I came across a small, locally-owned bookstore.  I decided to stop in to see what the place was like, as such stores usually offer books that big-box stores don’t (plus, their employees are typically very well read and make wonderful suggestions).
Upon entering the store, the first display I saw [...]

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Review: Provocative Faith

At a youth workers conference earlier this year, I picked up a number of books that were on sale for only a few dollars. I recently finished one of those books, Matthew Paul Turner’s Provocative Faith.
The book is a fairly quick read (less than 200 pages) and turned out to be pretty decent.  As [...]

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Review: What Matters Most: When NO Is Better Than YES

After I finally finished reading a book I’d been working on for a few months, I went through the books in my “To Read” pile and chose Doug Fields’ What Matters Most: When NO Is Better Than YES.
I’d heard about this book quite some time ago on the Simply Youth Ministry Podcast and it had [...]

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Review: Praise Habit: Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi

Earlier this week, I finally finished Praise Habit: Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi by David Crowder of David Crowder*Band fame. It took me much longer to read than I’d hoped/anticipated, but it was worth the wait.
The book focuses on redefining how we think about praising God; instead of being an event, Crowder suggests [...]

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