I finished the 6th of 7 Narnia books this week. Â The Silver Chair was a delight! Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, a noble band of friends is sent to rescue a prince held captive. But their mission to Underland brings them face-to-face with an evil more beautiful and more deadly than they ever expected. Favorite Quotes âYou …
Thom Rainer’s I Am a Church Member is a great read for anyone who desires a biblical look at what church membership should look like practically. Favorite Quotes I am suggesting that congregations across America are weak because many of us church members have lost the biblical understanding of what it means to be a part of the Body of …
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 in a compassionate ministry of …
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. And spiritually, many people are …
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 Sunday God will prompt hundreds …
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 did an incredible job reclaiming …
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 may be plenteously distributed, we …
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 The plans of a sovereign …
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 little-regarded belief system-atheism-has now gained …
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 end is only the beginning. …