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 [...]
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 [...]
Tonight I finished reading another book that Josh Griffin recommended, The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch.
While I thought the book was great and very informative, I didn’t get quite as much out of it as Josh did, perhaps because the book really needs to be in the hands of other members of [...]
A couple days ago, I finished reading Max Lucado’s 3:16: The Numbers of Hope. I’d heard lots of rave reviews about Lucado’s books, but this is the first one I’ve gotten around to reading. The book stood out to me in a display at Barnes & Noble during my Christmas and New [...]
Over the weekend I finished another great book by John Ortberg, Everybody’s Normal Till You Get To Know Them. The book focuses on community and overcoming our flaws and differences so we can form the life-changing relationships God designed and desires for us.
My favorite line in the book is “I’m somebody’s porcupine.” It [...]
During my two weeks off from Christmas until just after New Year’s Day, I was able to spend some time reading one of the many books in my “to read” pile; at the top of the pile was John Ortberg’s If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat.
This [...]
A few months ago, I joined a web site called PaperBackSwap (PBS), a great place for bibliophiles like myself to swap books we’re no longer interested in for ones we’d like to read.
The site has a very interesting approach to managing how books are swapped. When you sign up, you first have to post [...]
