In the Search for God and Guinness, Stephen Mansfield tells the story of the Guinness family. While the book recounts the amazing rise of one of the must successful breweries in the world, what makes the book and the Guiness family fascinating is the accounts of their character, faith, and generosity. Comment, share, and retweet to win a copy for yourself.
One of the things that’s most concerning to me is that Christians are known more for what they’re against than for what they are for, and I didn’t want this conversation to reinforce that stereotype. All our thinking about how we engage the world should be motivated by love.
Thanks to Crossway Books, I’m giving away 5 copies of Worldliness over the next two weeks. Worldliness by C.J. Mahaney is a book written to challenge Christians with the words of Jesus in John 2:15 – “Do not love the world or anything in the world.”
Review of the book Derailed by Tim Irwin. Overview, favorite quotes, personal thoughts, and questions to consider.
I found A Million Miles in a Thousand Years enjoyable to read. But more than that it’s the kind of book that can change the reader’s life. So, I want to give away a copy.
In The Divine Commodity, Skye Jethani challenges the reader to take a look at the way American consumerism has impacted the American Christian worldview.
In The Careless Society John McKnight takes a look at the service economy in the United States and how its rise has led to the decline in community. But the real gem in this book is the last chapter titled “Christian Service.” It rocked my world by proposing a revolutionary alternative to serving others.
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I wanted to let you all know about a great opportunity at OurChurch.Com’s Christian Web Trends blog. We are facilitating a group blog project for Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s new book Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve reputation and Earn Trust. Basically, a bunch of us bloggers are joining together, each [...]
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This weekend I read Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear, the latest book by Max Lucado. We certainly live in an era of fear. Every day the news is filled with stories about the risks of the global economic crisis, global warming, terrorism, and swine flu. Then in between the news stories, advertisers attempt to [...]
I never much cared for hell. The idea of a loving God sending people to a place of eternal punishment always sounded overly-harsh and inconsistent with the character of a God who loves us enough to create us and sacrifice his Son for us. Then I read Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl in which N.D. Wilson explains hell in a way that totally rocked my world…
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