BibleDriven

The 2010 Recommended Reading List is now posted on the “Reading Lists” page. The theme this year revolves around “the fellowship of the gospel” in the context of “life together” in the local church. Happy reading!

This is from a post I did some time ago over on “Let My People Read.”
One of the books through which I’ve been reading (and working) recently is Susan Bauer’s The Well-Educated Mind. It’s a practical and encouraging guide to a classical self-education through reading the great books of literature. Near the beginning, in a [...]

“I call you my brothers, and count it my privilege and joy to serve with you. And to you and this common cause in which we stand I give my life. I will go anywhere with you, and face anything, to the end of finishing the mission we’ve been given—faithfully, fully, courageously, and honorably, [...]

Carson began the devotional with this true observation: “When people know little about the God who has actually disclosed himself, it is terribly easy for them to sink into some perverted view of this God, until the image held of him has very little to do with the reality.”
He concluded with this troubling illustration: “Yesterday [...]

Please read the article entitled “The day the circus came to church” written by Pastor Don Hattaway (Tabernacle Baptist Church, Cartersville) and appearing in The Christian Index (July 30, 2009). In case there’s not a copy of The Christian Index at hand, the article can be read online HERE. More and more voices are beginning [...]

Back on Christmas Eve, I stopped at one of the local coffee shops (imagine that) for a good cup o’ joe and to read a while. When I went in I was greeted by a young man I had met there before … and he looked serious, intent, concerned. He leaned over and said, “We [...]

My wife, Allyson, and I had the opportunity to be in Louisville this weekend (13-14 DEC 2008) for the wedding of a very good friend. And on Sunday, there was occasion to attend worship services in two very different churches.
The first was a non-traditional community church—laid back sort of dress, a rockin’ band, a largely [...]

“All my family are Christians …” That’s how the woman with whom I was having an intriguing chat at the coffee shop began her next story. She’s a spry and inquisitive lady of nearly 70 years, well-read and well-traveled, and an absolutely delightful conversationalist. We’d talked about seeing the country by train, about her late [...]

In M. Night Shyamalan’s movie The Village, one of the characters, Lucius Hunt, is asked by another why he is so fearless. His reply is remarkable: “I don’t worry about what will happen, only what needs to be done.”
While here and there one finds notable exceptions, the Church-at-large in our culture seems to be of [...]

I read somewhere recently, “Evangelicalism is dying for the discovery of the value of good theology, while managerial pragmatism is all but killing the soul of our enterprise.” It stopped me dead in my reading tracks. The unnameable distraction, that gnawing anxiety that something wasn’t quite right, suddenly stood before me bald-faced. It’s so easy [...]