Currently there are at least four major, identifiable perspectives on how people best understand and recover from religious abuse. Both secular and faith-based (Christian) adherents can be variousl...
What do unicorns, law, love, and hell all have in common? They are all unfortunate words of the Bible. Through mistranslation, cultural shifts, anachronisms, and misguided intentions, this book tra...
""Our subject is the lost sayings of our Lord, or--to give them their Greek name--the ""the agrapha,"" which means literally the ""unwritten sayings,"" saying which are not recorded in the four Gos...
Unmasking the Male Soul is about freedom that confronts the innate and enslaving obsession for power and control in destructive ways. At the core of this liberating process, we must acknowledge tha...
John Reimer, a Mennonite preacher in Lakeview, Chicago, might be on the downslope of his ministerial career. At least that's how he feels most days. Then one morning in March a hungover waitress at...
The first thing that you must learn about spiritual gifts is that you have one. You may not realize it, but you function in your gift daily.
God has equipped each member of the Body of Christ with...
Written when the author was in his early and mid-twenties, Until the Sun Breaks Down is a contemporary American Kunstlerroman modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy. In three parts and one hundred chapte...
In this book we are trying to confess that the goals of the contemporary Church - that is to say, the church of St. John's by the Gas Station, the Christian college, the denominational and interden...
For the last couple decades, urban church planting has been all the rage. This has been a blessing for the city. This has also been a curse for many who sensed a call, saw a need, and left for a li...
Whether or not we are aware of it, everyone is being ""baptized."" While the church baptizes people in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the culture in which we live is baptizing us int...
How did Jesus do it? we wonder. How did he walk on water? To which we can imagine Jesus responding, ""O ye of literal faith. Walk with me on the waters of life; explore with me the depths of realit...
Walking with the Full Assurance of Understanding has been written to provide Christians who are serious about their faith what Paul called: ""the wealth that comes from the full assurance of unders...
""The verb walk is a Hebraism. It comprehends the total expression of one's life in th world as a thinking, speaking, living, acting, and interacting human being. The way one walks is the way one l...
The sacraments of baptism and eucharist do not occupy a back corner of Christian life. In this book your will discover both a theology of the sacraments and also a way to live into them. The result...
"Theology has two eyes. One looks back toward the past, where salvation broke in; the other looks toward the present, where salvation becomes reality here and now."This Way of ...
The Bible is not easy to figure out! Churches are filled with adults who are too embarrassed to admit their sketchy knowledge, and jumbled impressions, of biblical material. Even seminary-trained p...
""Wellness is a way of life, a life-style that is based on an experience of God and shaped in response to that experience. this life-style views and lives life as purposeful and pleasurable, seeks ...
Grady issues a ringing call to his own spiritual family and has identified key problems that must be addressed before revival can sweep the Church. They include: Pride in spiritual gifts, hyper-mys...