Putting the Truth to Work: BOOK REVIEW
Many pastors deal with continual angst as they face their congregations week-after-week and wonder, “Is what I’m saying connecting with their lives…is this message going to make a difference?”
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Applying the Sermon: How to Balance Biblical Integrity and Cultural Relevance BOOK REVIEW
Here is a book written for preachers by a preacher! Just like a great sermon, Overdorf grabs the reader’s attention and sets out on a fast-paced journey that is both remarkably interesting and informative. What is surprising is all that he is able to convey in a mere 175 pages (plus an appendix). He clearly knows the burdens of a pastor. Time is often short. Distractions are many. But faithful shepherds desire to present . . .
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Unleashing the Word: Rediscovering the Public Reading of Scripture BOOK REVIEW
Have you ever dozed off or glazed over during a moment of Scripture reading in a church service? Flushed with guilt, you immediately shook yourself back on track. But moments later – could you even remember the reference to the passage that was read? . . .
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Devote Yourself to the Public Reading of Scripture: BOOK REVIEW
For too many churches, reading the Bible in the corporate worship setting has resolved to be “little more than homiletical throat-clearing before the sermon”. With great concern, we must remember the timeless principle developed by the early church in their process of discipling new converts: lex orandi lex credendi – “the way we worship forms what we believe” . . .
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How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth: BOOK REVIEW
The old adage still floats around our society, “People can make the Bible say whatever they want it to say.” Even among less cynical churchgoers who profess a high view of Scripture, many seem lost when it comes to accurately interpreting and applying God’s Word. Conservative evangelical churches are ripe with classes, small groups, and even sermons that ignorantly contort the scriptures and rip them out of context. Every election cycle in America is met with Christians publicly (yet unknowingly?) claiming promises for their “homeland” that were only intended for national Israel (e.g. 2 Chron. 7:14).
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Culture Care: BOOK REVIEW
…Artists are largely ignored at the fringes of society or merchandized as cogs in the gears of a profiteering industry. In both circumstances, the garden of the culture, in which all of us reside, suffers great detriment and loss. Therefore, Culture Care was written “to inspire individuals and to inform the wider movement in providing care, for us to become co-makers with the divine Artist into the new creation”
