This feature on online bookseller Wordery’s webpage allows you to put in your age and it will tell you what book sold the most copies in the year of your birth. Could be a fun source of birthday presents. Mine was Morris West’s The Shoes Of The Fisherman. Have a look for yourself.
A life that knows the power of the resurrection of Jesus will experience growth in character through both joy and pain according to Dale Ralph Davis: You remember what Paul says in Philippians 3 in that marvellous verse, ‘That I may know him and the power of the resurrection’ (v. 10). What does that involve? …
Dale Ralph Davis writes about the novel insistence of Yahweh that his people have no other gods, and what that reveals about Yahweh and the way he relates to his people. Whoever heard of a god who demanded exclusive loyalty? There was no so-called god or goddess in the whole ancient near east who demanded …
I’m trying to work through the notions of leadership, governance, and management in the context of pastoral ministry with a team. This quote from Tod Bolsinger expresses something of the problem, the need for change that I’m experiencing. For most leaders I know and especially for pastors, all of this discussion of the different relationships …
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