Part of my commitment with theOoze is to review the books I sign up for and they send me! They are nice enough to give the option but I choose to generally review the ones I request. Kind of like an all you can eat buffet.... Anyways, I was going to skip the review for [...]

From the Secret Message of Jesus, here is a quick excerpt on the topic of God's Kingdom and Christ's message. I'm using this book as part of a series on discipleship. Some evangelicals might throw me under the bus for that, but I'll repent on my death bed so it's all good.....
....Jesus says again [...]

Dave Fitch's book is still the best on missional church, but for 'introduction to....' The Tangible Kingdom by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay is the best out there. I'm halfway through and although i haven't encountered much in the way of new thinking, I love some of the quotes, I have included one here:
"Church [...]

I'm always a fan when new statistics arrive in the mail, email, newsletter, etc., regarding the latest sociological trends in Canada. Maybe it's because I'm an economist by designation, maybe because I like to learn about my culture as a church planter. Nonetheless, from this perspective I found the latest Barna book very useful, albeit, [...]

Part of my commitment with theooze is to review books they send. I don't technically have to blog about them but I figure they're willing to send the books then I'll return the favour and review them. This time around I opted to peruse the latest attempt at summarizing Christian history from a Western perspective [...]