Summer Reading

I’m back from vacation feeling tanned, rested, and ready. Here are some of the books that I read while gone with appropriate comments.  Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China by Xi Lian, a Chinese historian living in the...

A Story of Faith and Love

Just finished Richard Wurmbrand’s 1969 classic, Tortured for Christ. It is a tale of amazing faith and love. Born in 1909 to Jewish parents, Wurmbrand grew up in Rumania. He was an atheist in his teens. After conversion in his young adult years he became a...

Where Have The Men Gone?

A pastor friend recently described a large evangelical church in downtown London with over 1,000 single males between the age of 20 and 35. Although they work responsibly, their relationship with the opposite sex is ambivalent at best. Few are seeking mates. The same...

To the Golden Shore

Just finished To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson, a deeply moving biography. The last time a biography impacted me this much was twenty years ago when I read the biography of Girolamo Savonarola, A Crown of Fire, by Pierre Van Passen.Judson and his wife,...

Kevin DeYoung on “Love Wins!”

The Christian blogosphere has been in major upheaval over Rob Bells new book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived Bell is the pastor of the “other” Mars Hill Church, but this one is in Michigan. He ministers...