I just received today my copy of his latest book, An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue. Some quotes from the introduction: “…the materials available for learning how to speak publicly have become…
Not a parody: When was the last time your class saw how “HOT” God’s Word is? Open this authentic looking “bible” and begin to share the scripture for the day as real flames are seen coming from your “bible”. This…
Quentin Schultze is an astute commentator on issues in Christianity, technology, and the arts. In a recent issue of the PCA’s ByFaith magazine he writes: “Young people witness some of the cheesy video and computer ‘art’ in worship and see…
As Phil has commented, the Christianity Today list of the 50 most important Christian books of the last fifty years shows a decided tilt towards Christian experience over Christian truth. In other words, it depicts a pietistic era spanning a half-century…
In looking through Christianity Today‘s list of the most influential evangelical books of the last half century, one can’t help but notice the dearth of substantive theology. There are plenty of experiential biographies, lots of “practical” books for family life…
Bob Brady — who serves as Executive Vice President for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals — tells me that the Reformation Society in Alaska recently had a very encouraging first meeting. One of the visitors was a high school student who has…
There is something aleatoric about the content of these columns. Frankly, it depends on what has been buzzing around my head in the last seven days. And what is it this week? Well, a conversation with a Jewish lady who…
In their 50th anniversary edition Christianity Today published their take on the top 50 books in evangelicalism’s last 50 years–those “landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live.” Anyone planning to add their #1 book…
Justin Taylor commented a while back that evangelicalism is no longer capable of parody, it has become so much a caricature of itself. In the spirit of that comment, I give you “Your Best Life Now–the Game,” inspired by Joel Osteen’s…
Recently I have been reading Jeffery Sheler’s Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America. Sheler is Contributing Editor for Religion with U.S. News and World Report. While he would not identify himself as an evangelical, Sheler grew up in an evangelical…
