If you are a blogger and you don’t know about BookSneeze, you should. Thomas Nelson Publishing has initiated a new program to create book buzz on their Christian titles. Bloggers can sign up at the site (and follow on twitter) to receive free books for review as long as the reviews are posted, [...]

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“Jesus said to him ‘I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen Him.’[Jn 14:6-7]”
Excellent! Now that we know that truth [...]

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OK, fans of Prebymergent. I am going to be blogging my way through John R. Franke’s Manifold Witness: the Plurality of Truth. Right off the bat, I think this is a necessary book for your ministry shelf. For those who are even slightly versed in a philosophical approach to theology, Manifold Witness delivers [...]

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What began as a comedy sketch a few years ago has turned into a “snarky, but authentic spiritual memoir” worth the time it takes to read. Susan Isaacs has had quite the spiritual journey, but, as it turns out so have you.
The difference is that she has written a book about it. [...]

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Half Life, Die Already: How I died and lived to tell about it.
This is a book about joy of living.
This is a book about the pain of inching closer to Jesus.
This is a book about what it feels like to surrender.
It’s taken me a while to read (finish) Mark Steele’s Half Life, Die [...]

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Just finished The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phillis Tickle. After studying the history of the Church for a year, it’s hard not to appreciate and even admire what Tickle has managed to do in this 163 page book. While Tickle can only present a part of the story, [...]

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You Suck (a love story) by Christopher Moore.
After reading Twilight, I thought it best to stay in the same vein and read another vampire novel that has been on my list. You Suck is not a teen vampire romance novel. Well, it is, but not like Twilight…so it’s not. Get it? If [...]

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“If you don’t get on board, then you’re going nowhere.” Someone said that at some point. That’s why I read this book. I had to see what the hype was about. So…I did.
I can see why millions of kids as well as adults are hooked on the Twilight train. Author [...]

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OK, I loved this book. Actually, I love the way that Christian George writes. He’s got immense talent and uncommon command of the written language. He’s able to communicate trivial anecdotes as some of the most fascinating narrative I’ve read (in this genre). The author has enviable travel experience which in [...]

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While I haven’t yet read Vintage Jesus, I just finished The Shack, by William P. Young. As strange as I feel about it, I have to side with Michael W. Smith. This is a very good story. We live in a time where we need story. We need to be read [...]

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