Jesus Manifesto (Sweet, Viola): Review

Jesus Manifesto (Sweet, Viola): Review

Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola have just released Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ. Thanks to the good people at Thomas Nelson Publishers, I was able to read an advance copy for review. The book’s thesis is simple: American...
Change Your Church for Good (Brad Powell): Review

Change Your Church for Good (Brad Powell): Review

Brad Powell’s experience as senior pastor of NorthRidge Church has been distilled in the form of a book: Change Your Church for Good.  The premise of the book is simple: many churches need move beyond entrenched irrelevance to be relevant, vibrant communicators...
Douglas Coupland: Generation A

Douglas Coupland: Generation A

Just finished reading the latest from Douglas Coupland, Generation A. You might be aware that Coupland is famous for Generation X, a book that coined the popular term. Generation A is not as groundbreaking as this work, but highly entertaining, and like most of...
“The Hole in Our Gospel” (Richard Stearns): Review

“The Hole in Our Gospel” (Richard Stearns): Review

Richard Stearns has been the President of World Vision since June of 1998. The book is both autobiographical, detailing the journey that took him from the corporate world to assisting the third world. Replete with stories and statistics, the book is a challenge to the...
Jesus Versus Paul?: New Perspectives on the Gospel

Jesus Versus Paul?: New Perspectives on the Gospel

Christopher J Wiles pastor | writer | speaker FollowFollowFollow It’s Jesus versus Paul. Two recent books have promoted a “new” way of thinking about the gospel relative to the traditional doctrines of the evangelical church. The authors of both books have...