Saturdays Are For Shalom

Gentrification and Real Renewal In the book I am currently reading Urban Ministry, I was challenged to rethink my view on gentrification.  I had always looked at gentrification as a postive thing, even an evidence of renewal taking place in some small measure.  The restoration of homes into more comfortable and esthetically pleasing dwellings has [...]

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Must Read Review of “Culture Making”

I have read, enjoyed but not yet blogged about Andy Crouch’s book “Culture Making”.  I would encourage everyone to read it.  As Crouch suggests, it is a book to be read together and discussed (How are you coming along with it Larry?).  I would enjoy more discussion about it myself. In the hopes of encouraging [...]

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Death By Love

I had previously mentioned Mark Driscoll’s upcoming book, Death By Love as one the books I am most looking forward to reading in the remainder of the year.  Well, a website for the book was launched recently and if you view the trailer (since when did books have trailers?) you might see why I think [...]

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Heaven Is Not My Home – Chapter 18

Between Two Worlds “This world is our home: we are made to live here. It has been devastated by sin, but God plans to put it right.” (p 247) And that is how Marshall begins the final chapter. The focus, our focus, he contends should not be so much on the here and now but [...]

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Heaven Is Not My Home – Chapter 16

The New Creation I enjoyed this chapter and found it helpful in thinking through some aspects of the new earth. Marshall really focuses on discussing two points in this chapter: 1) our bodily resurrection, like Jesus’, will be physical and 2) the meaning of 2 Peter 3:7. While he does cover some other subjects (albeit [...]

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Three Books I Am Most Looking Forward to Reading This Year

There are three books sitting in my wish list at Amazon, just waiting for me to be able to order and read. I’ll just share with you (briefly) why I am looking forward to these three books (listed in order of release date). 1.Culture Making by Andy Crouch. This one is apparently now available at [...]

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Book Review: The Lightlings by RC Sproul

The Lightlings By RC Sproul Now I know that I haven’t spent much time on this blog discussing books about or for children but I have to tell you, I found one I think is worth talking about. The Lightlings is a simple tale with a profound message. Sproul weaves a short allegorical tale together [...]

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Heaven Is Not My Home – Chapter 15

Patience and Long-suffering In this brief chapter, Marshall discusses not only the perfect long-suffering our Lord but the endurance need for the saints.  The chapter begins with a brief discussion of the “already-not yet” aspect of the kingdom of God.  Marshall quotes several passages which speak of the kingdom being here now (Lk. 17:20-21, Mt. [...]

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Keller’s Next Book

The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller is coming out in October. I pre-order my copy already (yeah, I am sick). Worth reading is Alex Chediak’s interview with Keller regarding the forth coming book.

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Book Review: “What’s So Great About The Doctrines of Grace?”

Many people just don’t like Calvinists. Interestingly though, it’s often not because they think the Calvinists are wrong or too intellectual or too grace-focused or anything like that. Usually, at least in my experience, it’s because Calvinists can come off as proud and self-righteous, as if they have all the answers to how the whole [...]

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