J.D. Greear provides thirty-six ‘plumblines’, values he’s picked up over ten years of pastoring which he wishes he’d had from the beginning. Including the now ubiquitous nod to ‘the city’ there’s a lot of well phrased wisdom here. Yes, I know there are only thirty-five. Weird, huh? (I think 35 was meant to be 35 …
What does For The City promise? Darrin Patrick and Matt Carter have planted churches in the heart of two US cities. In 180 pages they seek to ‘shed light on what a healthy church looks like, [and] share from our experiences as church planters how to pursue the goal of healthy, God-honoring churches in cities …
Ed Welch’s words should not be confined to teenagers. People of all ages can fall into this spiritual trap, and some churches encourage them along the way. “Hello, I am a moralistic therapeutic deist.” That’s the word from a number of evangelical teens. I really liked that phrase when I first read it, though it …
The Christian life is not learning how to cope better. It’s learning to realise you can’t cope through your own resources more and more quickly. Which takes a life-time. From Michael Kelly: Ah, the theological platitudes of Hallmark Christianity. Statements like these are quoted so often that they’re generally regarded as biblical truth: God helps …
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