Books I've Been Reading



Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We TolerateJerry Bridges gets it.  It's not just the big things that matter!







A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

This is one of the best books I've read on prayer. Most books make me feel guilty that I don't pray enough. This book motivates me to pray. The Tuesday morning men's group have been challenged by this book.
When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor. . .and Ourselves
This book will change the way you think about helping the poor.  For a Church or community organization to put this strategy into effect would be revolutionary to the long term health of a community.






Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community (Re:Lit)Who says churches need to be large buildings with lots of people and professional ministers?  This book challenges our presuppositions of what it means to be a church, "Christians are called to a dual fidelity: fidelity to the core content of the gospel and fidelity to the primary context of a believing community (p. 16)."