The Deliberate Church After many people read “The Nine Marks of the Healthy Church,” they asked, if we realize that our church is unhealthy, what can be do concretely to become a healthy church? In his sequel, Mark Dever, pastor of Capital Hill Baptist Church, makes a point that everything that we do in the […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: The Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
The two most easily recognizable hallmarks of secularization in America are the exaltation of numbers and of technique. ~Os Guinness, p.24 Here are the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church: #1 Expositional Preaching I will sometimes be surprised by the point of the passage and therefore by what must become the point of my message… […]
Reflections from Mary Poplin's "Finding Calcutta" book and a retreat with Pastor Don Overstreet
There were 2 things on my heart prior to the retreat – Mother Teresa and John the Baptist. First, God gave me a portrait of the Christian life through Mother Teresa as I had just finished reading the book, “Finding Calcutta” the weekend before the retreat. It’s a book that inspired me, but also disturbed […]
Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
Heaven is often viewed by many Christians as a place beyond the river that our souls go to after our sojourn on earth is over. With a doubt, such a view of the afterlife has had a direct influence on a great number of Christian evangelicals who believe that the saving of souls is the […]