Reinventing Youth Ministry (Again)
Wayne Rice has worked with youth and youth ministers for four decades, and in his newest book Reinventing Youth Ministry (Again) (IVP)...
Key Questions about Christian Faith: Old Testament Answers
Key Questions about Christian Faith: Old Testament Answers (Baker Academic) by John Goldingay explores Old Testament answers for 25 critical questions, such as...
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
In John Piper's newest book, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God (Crossway), he argues that all serious Christians must be students because thinking is crucial to worship, service and a meaningful Christian life.
Illustration: Self-Righteousness, Heaven
"I was shocked, confused, bewildered as I entered Heaven's door, not by the beauty of it all, nor the lights or its decor."
Illustration: Thankfulness, Providence
In his Church & Culture blog, James Emery White shares this story: The barracks where Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsy were kept in the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbruck were terribly overcrowded and flea-infested.
Keeping Work in Perspective
In his excellent little book The Character of Leadership (B&H Books), Jeff Iorg talks about the danger of defining ourselves by our work. He writes: "Leaders struggle to keep work in perspective because of their insecurities."
Illustration: Excuses, Family
A cowboy walks into a bar in Texas, orders three mugs of Bud and sits in the back room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
Illustration: Gifts, Shopping
A mother and a daughter are shopping in the mall when the mother eyes an expensive fur coat. "This year," she says, "I think I will buy my present instead of making you and Dad shop for me."
Illustration: Prayer, Sharing
A businessman needed millions of dollars to clinch an important deal, so he went to the church to pray for the money. By chance he knelt at the altar next to a man who was praying for $100 to pay an urgent debt.
Illustration: Christian Life, Discipleship
Ruth Bell Graham wrote of an encounter she had with a young Indian student named Pashi. She spoke with Pashi about Christ, to which he replied, "I would like to believe in Christ, and many in India would like to believe; but we never have seen a Christian who was like Christ."