Holy Week.
Apr15

Holy Week.

Christians all around the globe set this week apart from all others to remember Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem amid shouts of “Hosanna,” His steps to the cross, the foot-washing and Passover celebration, and the impending Resurrection Sunday. Such is why we call it Holy Week. The Father’s love for the world poured through the passion of the Son. . . .

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We, the Church
Apr08

We, the Church

Common nomenclature compels us to talk about going to church, being at church, and liking or disliking a church or church service. But Christ’s plan for the church is something quite different. 

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Putting the Truth to Work: BOOK REVIEW
Mar18

Putting the Truth to Work: BOOK REVIEW

Many pastors deal with continual angst as they face their congregations week-after-week and wonder, “Is what I’m saying connecting with their lives…is this message going to make a difference?”

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Applying the Sermon: How to Balance Biblical Integrity and Cultural Relevance BOOK REVIEW
Feb18

Applying the Sermon: How to Balance Biblical Integrity and Cultural Relevance BOOK REVIEW

Here is a book written for preachers by a preacher! Just like a great sermon, Overdorf grabs the reader’s attention and sets out on a fast-paced journey that is both remarkably interesting and informative. What is surprising is all that he is able to convey in a mere 175 pages (plus an appendix). He clearly knows the burdens of a pastor. Time is often short. Distractions are many. But faithful shepherds desire to present . . .

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Devote Yourself to the Public Reading of Scripture: BOOK REVIEW
Dec03

Devote Yourself to the Public Reading of Scripture: BOOK REVIEW

For too many churches, reading the Bible in the corporate worship setting has resolved to be “little more than homiletical throat-clearing before the sermon”. With great concern, we must remember the timeless principle developed by the early church in their process of discipling new converts: lex orandi lex credendi – “the way we worship forms what we believe” . . .

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Culture Care: BOOK REVIEW
Nov05

Culture Care: BOOK REVIEW

…Artists are largely ignored at the fringes of society or merchandized as cogs in the gears of a profiteering industry. In both circumstances, the garden of the culture, in which all of us reside, suffers great detriment and loss. Therefore, Culture Care was written “to inspire individuals and to inform the wider movement in providing care, for us to become co-makers with the divine Artist into the new creation”

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