Love the Local Church!

In a few weeks Scot McKnight’s new book, The Kingdom Conspiracy, will come out. I got my hands on it … Continue reading Love the Local Church!

What do Kids Really Want?

This last week I made my way through Kara Powell’s new book The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family – … Continue reading What do Kids Really Want?

Timothy Pawl (University of St. Thomas) is a brilliant brilliant man. I first heard him at the Los Angeles Theology … Continue reading How Can Philosophy be Used in the Church?

Many years ago Avery Dulles wrote a classic book on ecclesiology titled – Models of the Church – in this … Continue reading Models of the Church

Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus explores what it would look like for the church to … Continue reading Book Review – Slow Church by Christopher Smith and John Pattison

Our mission has to be shaped by our ultimate vision of God’s future… that in turn should reshape how we … Continue reading N.T. Wright on the Church Shaped by Mission

What is the purpose of the church? What is its calling? Why does it exist? These are all questions that … Continue reading The Church and Its Missionary Calling

How does one go about doing theology? What sort of tools are needed? A bible, some books, a library, maybe … Continue reading “Only Two Things are Needed” – The Dogmatic Theology of Karl Barth

We all live inside of a story. No this isn’t a Stranger than Fiction or Truman Show kind of statement; … Continue reading Book Review – What is Biblical Theology by James Hamilton

I have been married for a few days now, so I sort of consider myself an expert on marriage, therefore … Continue reading I Have a New Name! And So Do You!