Book Review: The Mission of God
Reviewed by Mike GilbartSmith
Reviewing a book about missions by Chris Wright makes me feel a little like a grown-up Pinocchio writing a critique of Geppetto’s toy-making skills. Chris was very much involved in introducing me to the mission of God and to the God of mission when he served as a curate in my parents’ church when I was between the ages of 3 and 9.
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Book Review: The Lost Message of Jesus
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Book Review: God's New Community
Community is hard work. As a result, many people love the idea of community more than the experience of community. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from p. 110 of book
Why are authentic communities simultaneously so attractive and so elusive? Is it because we want all the benefits and none of the costs?
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Expositional Imposters
Mark Dever rightly describes Expositional Preaching as "preaching that takes for the point of a sermon the point of a particular passage of Scripture." However, I have heard many sermons that intend to be expositional, yet fall somewhat short. Below are seven pitfalls that one might try to avoid. Each of these pitfalls either doesn’t correctly make the message of the passage the message of the sermon, or doesn’t make it a message to that congregation at all.
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The Devotional Life of the Professional Christian
The Indispensability of Discipline in the Devotions of a Pastor
Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes (Eph. 6:10-11).
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A Conversational Approach: Will it Preach?
“Conversation” is one of the buzzwords in the twenty-first century church. It has very positive connotations, to be contrasted with less amicable words like “debate,” “argument,” “bickering,” “fighting,” “commanding,” and “condemning”. One only has to look at the front and back covers of Doug Pagitt’s Preaching Re-imagined to see the perceived difference between a monologue and a conversation.
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