I thought I’d kick off my 2011 reading with a bit of church history.  The first book I’ll be reviewing this year is Five Leading Reformers:  Lives at a Watershed of History by Christopher Catherwood.  The book gives brief accounts of the lives of Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, Thomas Cranmer and John Knox. [...]

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I was excited to receive an advance reading copy of Your Church Is Too Small: Why Unity in Christ’s Mission Is Vital to the Future of the Church by John H. Armstrong from the good folks at Zondervan Academic.  I will be participating in the Your Church is too Small Blog Tour running March 14-20, [...]

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I was very excited last week to receive a copy of SimChurch:  Being the Church in the Virtual World by Douglas Estes from the kind folks at Zondervan Academic.  This book  helps to define what makes up the virtual church today and examines some of the possibilities and concerns that come with it.  Review to [...]

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Many thanks to Shannon Blake for furnishing me with a review copy of Andy Deane’s Learn to Study the Bible.  It arrived a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t able to start reading it until today.  The book is focused on helping the reader find one or several Bible study methods that will work well [...]

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While I haven’t been posting very much lately, I have been doing a fair amount of reading.  Here are a few of the books I’ve read this past month:

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I’m currently working my way through The God of the Mountain:  The True Story Behind the Discoveries at the Real Mount Sinai by Penny Cox Caldwell.  This book retells the story of the Caldwell family’s adventures in Saudi Arabia and the surrounding area in the early 1990′s.  At this point I’m about a fourth of [...]

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I’m presently working my way through The Kingdom of the Occult in preparation for my first review as a part of Thomas Nelson’s Book Review Bloggers program.  I happened to catch a 2 hour interview with one of the authors (Jill Martin Rische) on a local radio program (Jan Markell’s Understanding the Times) this morning.  [...]

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Many thanks are in order to the kind folks at B & H Publishing Group providing me with a review copy and several additional promotional copies of The Love Dare.  This book is a central part of the plot in this fall’s surprise hit movie Fireproof.  If you haven’t had an opportunity to see Fireproof, [...]

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If you’re an armchair archaeologist like me, then I’d highly recommend you pick up Nina Burleigh’s latest book:  Unholy Business:  A True Tale of Faith, Greed & Forgery in the Holy Land.  Apparently there’s a whole other world to Biblical Archaeology, that I never read about in Biblical Archaeology Review.  Thanks to the kind folks [...]

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