An immensely helpful volume in this series, one of my favorite writers, Rev. Dr. Amy Peeler, takes the mundane out of the ordinary showing the importance and veritable vitality of this season. Ordinary Time: The Season of Growth is filled with extraordinary insights. As Iread more ➜
In The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God Tom Wright invites readers to take several steps backwards and see the larger picture of God’s purpose for the world. All too frequently verses of the Bible are chunked outread more ➜
Truth be told, I didn’t think much about Holy Communion (or, ‘Lord’s Supper’) for the first few decades of my Christian life. After all, this activity is just symbolic, right? I mean, who ponders street signs when driving? It’s the destination that keeps my attention!read more ➜
Chapters 10-12 are largely practical answering the question, “How is authority identified and evaluated?” The arguments presented land right side up and on solid ground giving leadership and lay opportunity to see the immense value of “rethinking leadership in the church.” A brief conclusion wrapsread more ➜
Chapters 4-9 frame out Part 2 and build from the content of Part 1 showing how authority is expressed. This section is arguably the most robust part of the book, so this post will be more lengthy than my sum of Part 1. Chapters 4-5read more ➜
When A Theology of Authority: Rethinking Leadership in the Church arrived, all other reading was set aside. Having listened to a podcast where Christa McKirland convincingly unpacks the book’s thesis, I was anxious to read her arguments and learn more. Her previous publication, God’s Provision,read more ➜
It’s widely known that since Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation (1517) a great controversy divided the Catholic Church, and the result was the beginning of the Protestant movement. The crux of that controversy was, and still is, the gospel story and how one entersread more ➜
When I saw this was going to be published, the title piqued my interest. After all, I thought, learning about the emotional life of Jesus was of great interest to me. Since Warfield’s classic The Emotional Life of our Lord, not much has been published in thisread more ➜
I wish I had Households of Faith: Practicing Family in the Kingdom of God when I lived less than 2 miles from Focus on the Family campus headquarters. It’s no surprise that they prioritize the nuclear family over just about everything else. I attended church with manyread more ➜
Despite its small stature and few pages (‘small’ and ‘few’ compared to most of Wright’s works!), The Challenge of Acts: Rediscovering What the Church Was and Is turned out to be a challenging read. Although the Preface indicates a “bird’s-eye view” is on offer, there’s a senseread more ➜
I’m a fan of the Grove Biblical series published in the UK and have several volumes, all of which have been helpful and insightful. Even with postage across the pond, they’re an excellent value in summing important topics and great doctrines of the Christian faith (PDF versionsread more ➜
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