Review: Reframing the Soul
I love words. I’ve always loved words. In first grade my school hosted a poetry contest. We all wrote poems and made artwork to go with…
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Review: Preacher covers every verse of Mark’s fast-paced gospel
David Stewart, a longtime minister for Churches of Christ in Arkansas and Kansas, has written a very usable commentary on the Gospel of Mark. In…
Review: The Problem of God
The secularization of North America seems to attract ever-increasing attention from the media, sociologists and students of culture (both Christian and not). For many Americans,…
Can we reach a culture that considers our faith irrelevant?
‘People perceive Christians as irrelevant and extreme.” This is the startling assertion by Christian researchers David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons in “Good Faith.” Sharing results…
Book gives eclectic, though not diverse, views of ‘Why We Stayed’ in Churches of Christ
A multitude of ministers in Churches of Christ feel frustrated, disenchanted and discouraged about various issues in our fellowship. So claims Benjamin J. Williams, editor of…
Review: Author urges believers to fight for Jesus until ‘The Last Arrow’
Life is a battlefield, and you’ve got a quiver of arrows. That’s the central analogy of “The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life.”…
‘Life’s storms are screams’ that awaken Christ-followers, says stroke survivor
Mark Moore grew up in a two-bedroom house — which held a family of 10 — in a tough borough of New York City. But…
Review: A Macedonian call to China: Volume chronicles a not-so-wasted effort
Passages like the Great Commission in Matthew and the Macedonian call in Acts have long compelled Churches of Christ to conduct missions. When historians capture…
In ‘Still Wrestling,’ minister whose wife, son were slain explores faith, doubt
A double murder. A destroyed family. A shattered faith. After the tragic deaths of his wife and 21-year-old son in 2011, minister Les Ferguson Jr.…
‘Grieving a suicide’ will help survivors heal, ministers help
Suicide devastates lives — the lives of families, friends and ministry providers. And many ministers, myself included, are confronted with the event of a suicide…
