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The latest edition of the 9Marks journal is on marriage and the church. Note especially the marriage comparison chart with mini-reviews of a number of books.

I have a bad habit: I keep adding books to my growing pile beside my bed. This morning, I finished a book that wasn't on this list : Christian Scharen's Faith as a Way of Life . Originating out of Yale's Center for Faith and Culture and funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc.'s Sustaining Pastoral...

My wife and I are off to Peru tomorrow on a mission trip for a week and I'm uncertain if I'll be able to blog from the Southern Hemisphere! On my way, I've decided to dip into Colin Duriez's new biography of Francis Schaeffer ( Francis Schaeffer: an Authentic Life published by Crossway and see Tim...

One quick addition to my summer reading list: Garth Rosell's The Surprising Work of God: Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism. Ockenga was in the first graduating class of Westminster, among the faculty and student exiles from Princeton. Eventually he became pastor...

The problem with living in the Caribbean is you don't really have seasons. Who knew it was summer and you could read differently? While all the tourist come down, snorkel, and bathe in the sun with a wonderful novel, us poor Caribbean pastors continue on in the same old sunshine and heat, reading...

Compliance is good, even if it comes late, which is to say I finally have my summer reading list to add to the mix. I'm working on a book on American religious history this summer, so I'll be reading just about anything I can find on that topic. That's work, though. I hope to get through all of...

I had the privilege yesterday, along with the other elders of Second Church, of spending the afternoon and evening (before and after evening worship) hearing professions of faith from applicants for membership in our church. As is usual for a city church, it was an incredibly diverse group and...

Now that summer is actually here, I can add my summer reading list. Part of this is based on my delusion that summer will actually slow things down! I always plan my reading in categories, trying to do regular devotional, theological, and historical reading, with a novel or two added in so that I...

Is Wales really that culturally challenged? You'll find early footage of Derek singing, Wagner-style, at a Cwmbran Tent Revival meeting here .

Thanks to all who have volunteered to review my list of books. Of the books I posted earlier today, only the following are left: Sharon Heaney CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY FOR LATIN AMERICA: LIBERATION THEMES IN EVANGELICAL PERSPECTIVE (Paternoster) Christopher R. Seitz PROPHECY AND HERMENEUTICS: TOWARDS A...