Category: Books

This also appeared at YMX but is worth sharing here. It’s also worth noting that the author, Ray Pritchard, was our senior pastor in Chicago at Calvary Memorial. In the 5-6 years that we were there, I went from greatly admiring Ray as a great speaker to greatly respecting him as my pastor. The ministry…

I just finished reading Craig Groscel’s book, "Confessions of a Pastor." He’s the pastor of Lifechurch.tv and widely regarded as one of the "innovators" of church ministries today. In Confessions, Craig documents his struggles. He talks about his pride, the fact that he doesn’t like most Christians. The fact that he struggles to have a…

We just finished reading this book as a staff and I have a feeling a lot of people will be talking about this book in the near future. As is always the case with churches, we’re about 12-18 months behind the curve because this book was hot in management in 2005-2006. It is, The Five…

While I’m proud of myself for actually finishing the DaVinci Code… it left me quite disappointed. No one could walk away from the book thinking it holds truth. At least no one who actually thought about what they were reading as they read it. As the label correctly distinguishes it, it is clearly fiction. The…

Let me first say that I’ve not finished reading the DaVinci Code. I’m about 50% complete as of now. This book is a page-turner and it is a great story… but I find it hard to believe that there are really people willing to argue that Dan Brown’s book has some sort of great secret…

I am reading a book called Never Walk Away by Crawford Loritts. I will admit that I am not very far along in the books, but I am already learning a lot. There is a concept in this book that I am struck by. Availability. This is a big topic with me because we do…