Books

Unfashionable

Tullian Tchividjian’s new book Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different is out. It’s one of those books I’ve been looking forward to for a long time.

Inside the Heart of a Servant Leader

My latest column at Christian Week: For a long time, I kept looking to new thinkers to teach me how to minister effectively in a post-Christian culture. New thinkers have their place, but

The Message of the Cross

John Miller in The Heart of a Servant Leader: The message of the cross takes away the burden of guilt and sin, removes forever the divine wrath from us; then it takes away

What’s a Good Sermon?

In his book Why Johnny Can’t Preach, T. David Gordon taps an old book (Sacred Rhetoric by Robert Lewis Dabney, circa 1870) for “The Seven Cardinal Requisites of Preaching.” I think it’

Consuming Jesus blog

I really enjoyed reading Paul Metzger’s book Consuming Jesus. Metzger is concerned that, without knowing it, evangelicals have become insensitive to issues of race and class divisions within the church. Metzger’s