Books
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No parent wants a their child to be labeled as a “problem child,” but not many of us are confident about how to prevent that from happening. With three children of my own, and with responsibilities as a pastor to teenagers and parents, I am thankful for Michael Ungar’s book I Still Love You. Ungar…
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We have all been told since we were children that we should eat a well-balanced diet of grains, dairy, fruits, vegetables and protein, along with an active lifestyle, in order to maintain good health and live a long-life. However, Dan Barber would like to supplement those recommendations with well-balanced and sustainable production of food. Barber,…
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As a pastor, I am faced daily with the possibility that I might be required to provide comfort and assistance to people in crisis. This is why I am grateful for the knowledge and wisdom passed on from others who have experience in dealing with difficult situations, understanding that some knowledge is only gained by…
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it…
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With today being Valentine’s Day, I thought it would be appropriate to write on the topic of love. I am struck by this statement made by Eugene Peterson in Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing up in Christ. ((Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2010)) He states this as the subject of his book: “healthy…
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Brian Cosby is not proposing anything new in his book Giving Up Gimmicks. But, that’s exactly the point. Cosby is rightly concerned that the entertainment culture has infiltrated youth ministry. Giving Up Gimmicks, then, is written for youth pastors, volunteers and parents of youth, in order to remind us about what is truly important when it comes…
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I plan on writing a review of Culture Making once I’m done reading it, but I wanted to write an article on one of Andy Crouch’s points because I think it’s worth emphasizing. He makes the statement that “real culture making… begins with a decision about which cultural world… we will attempt to make something of.” ((From…
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New Year’s resolutions are meant to be broken, right? It only took one week for me to break mine. But, I am quite pleased to have done so. I’ll blame it on Alan Jacobs, the author of what will probably become a book I will recommend to many people. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age…
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I just finished reading Piper’s short book Risk is Right. This is an excellent little book on what it truly means to live an unwasted life. Here is my response. One of the most frustrating experiences is to know that I could have done more to serve God. This is why I tend to overwork…
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I decided to pick up and read Jonathan Edwards’ “Religious Affections.” I have had this book on my reading list for some time, and now I finally feel like I will have the time to get it done. Edwards begins this book with the following question: What are the distinguishing qualifications of those that are…
William Knelsen 