Great read this week in Strauch’s The New Testament Deacon: The Church’s Minister of Mercy. Book Overview Our heartfelt burden is to help deacons get out of the boardroom and building-maintenance mentality and into the people-serving mentality. Deacons, as the New testament teaches and as some of the sixteenth-century reformers discovered, are to be involved …
With the economy reeling in the wake of the recent recession, many people are experiencing such financial challenges as credit card debt, downsizing, dead-end jobs, and inadequate or depleted savings. With these challenges come others as well. Recent studies confirm that more than half of all divorces are the result of financial pressures at home. …
At Rocky Creek, we have a 1-word project our leadership is focusing on for every month this year.  As we evaluate how we can best connect our guests into a relationship with Jesus and this church, I have been collecting many different types of resources.  One of those is Nelson Searcy’s book, Fusion. Book Overview Next …
I would have loved The Liberal Arts: A Student’s Guide regardless of who wrote it, but I love it all the more since our President-Elect for North Greenville University, Gene Fant, authored it. Â The book is the intro piece in a series that is critical for the Church and Christian institutions going forward. Â Dr. Fant …
Reread Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students recently.  So good. Favorite Quotes The first sign of the heavenly calling is an intense, all-absorbing desire for the work (26). He is not always in the act of prayer, but he lives in the spirit of it (42). Since, also, in the reading of the Scriptures comfort and instruction …
As I preached through the Book of Jonah, I used many resources.  One of the most accessible commentaries on the book was Frank Page’s entry for Jonah in the New American Commentary Series.  I thought it was a helpful contribution that included sufficient linguistic studies, thorough treatments of argued discrepancies, and helpful pastoral insights. Favorite Quotes …
Dr. Mohler wrote a fantastic volume called Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists. Â Here is the description: A leading Christian intellectual explores the newest strain of atheism, its foremost thinkers, the cultural conditions that have bred it, and how Christians should respond. Something has changed in American culture. What for years was a …
Book Overview Here is the book overview for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted waters, they discover that their quest is more than they imagined and that the world’s …
Book Description With so much confusion about the role of men in our society, it’s no wonder so many parents and teachers are asking questions about how to bring up boys. Why are so many boys in crisis? What qualities should we be trying to instill in young males? Our culture has vilified masculinity and, …
For the Glory – EP is a collection of six songs recorded by North Side Worship. Â 4 songs are modern hymns, 1 is an older hymn, and 1 is an original. Â These are six worship songs that teach and celebrate the gospel. Â The album walks through the progression of the gospel as well. All I …