The Believer's Bookshelf

ecently, I’ve been casually reading through Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I say casually because I only have time to read it when I carve out some time for reading. Furthermore, I’m one of those people who begins way too many books. It’s kinda a running joke between Laura and I that start a bunch [...]

Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods (Re:Lit: Vintage Jesus) by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears comes as their second co-authored book in the “vintage” series. Their first related work was Amazon Vintage Jesus Title here, where they called believers back to the basic commands of Jesus. Carrying this throwback terminology yet once again, Vintage [...]

The Don’t Waste Your Life Sentence DVD depicts the lives of those within Louisiana’s Angola prison complex. Angola is one of the nation’s most secure and criminally severe prisons, comprised with the nation’s most severe sentenced inmates. Many of these individuals’ sentences are a life-term and some of them await a death-row sentence. In this [...]

Recently, I had the privilege of attending a pastoral conference on prayer. I think the truth that struck me most was found in Psalm 27:4, “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to [...]

So, I was recently going through my library and came across a great commentary on the book of Romans. I read Douglas Moo’s work on Romans back during a class I took a few years ago. Coming from one who absolutely loves the book of Romans, I thoroughly enjoyed Moo’s treatment of this doctrinally-rich book! [...]

Grace: For Those Who Think They Don’t Measure Up by Bob Lenz aims to be a fresh look at God’s grace in a way that the average reader can grasp. Lenz, a motivational youth speaker, uses his passion for the Gospel and God’s grace to inspire youth toward positive change. Such change, Lenz explains in [...]