It is rare when I am blown away by a book, but that has happened this week upon reading Kyle Idleman's Not a Fan. Idleman is a teaching pastor at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, one of the largest churches in the U.S. Until a week ago today, I confess I had no idea who …
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Book Review: “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan
It seems far too presumptuous of anyone - especially me - to review one of the greatest Christian classics of all time, so let me say up front that this is not a review in the sense of a critique of this timeless allegory first published in 1678. It is, rather, a reaction to having …
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Book Review: “Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home” by Rupert Sheldrake
Sometimes you get a lot more than you bargained for in a book - in a good way - and that's what happened to me in reading Rupert Sheldrake's Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals). As a dog lover, and given the title of the book, I …
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Book Review: “I Am a Church Member” by Thom Rainer
I've been a church member ever since I made a profession of faith and was baptized at First Baptist Church of Winchester, Kentucky as a freshman in high school in the early 1970s. Growing up in the church prior to that experience and being an active church member in several churches since then, being a …
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Book Review: “The Millennials” by Thom S. Rainer and Jess W. Rainer
If you'd like to better understand the Millennial generation, also known as Gen Y - those born approximately between the years 1980 and 2000 - then I suggest you read the book The Millennials: Connecting to America's Largest Generation by Thom Rainer and his son Jess Rainer. Thom is a Baby Boomer while Jess is a Millennial. …
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