Book Reviews

Review: It’s Personal

I spoke to someone recently who first pastored an established church, and then became a planter. The level of spiritual attack intensified greatly when he became a church planter. It’s hard to

Review: The Measure of Our Success

Pastors have a problem. The problem is simple, according to Shawn Lovejoy: Somewhere along our ministry journey, things got tangled up in our hearts and heads. Our root problem is that we have

Review: You Are a Writer

Jeff Goins has earned a place in my Google Reader. He’s consistently putting out good material on writing. In particular, he’s really good at busting through the some of the excuses

Review: Evangellyfish

There were moments in reading Evangellyfish that I felt guilty. For one thing, it’s a book with violence (one pastor punches another) and sex — not graphic sex, but sex nonetheless. I also

Review: Church in the Making

“How did church planting become such a spiritual crapshoot?” asks Ben Arment, author of Church in the Making: What Makes or Breaks a New Church Before it Starts . According to Arment, church plants