A deeper look into Andy Stanely's new book.
Andy Stanley’s Irresistible: Chapters 1-2 Reviewed
I can picture the view from Andy Stanley's position. He looks out among rolling secular hills and see that more and more millennials are leaving the church, and adopting a religious affiliation of "nones." He hears the overplayed statistic in the wind that over 80% of teens leave the faith after high school. He watches…
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Andy Stanley’s Irresistible Book Review: An Introduction
Over the next few weeks I'm going to walking through a several part review of Andy Stanley's Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World. Andy Stanley is an incredibly popular pastor who has a massive influence and reach in American evangelicalism. This book is going to sell a lot of copies and…
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Battling for Joy (and Losing to Worry)
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come, Let this blest assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul I'm not very good at Joy (yes, that is a capital "J" as C.S. Lewis would have liked it). Who knows how many articles, books, sermons,…
Scholé Monday
Scholé is a form of restful learning centered on contemplation. It is about giving due time to the things that are worth thinking about. So often in our modern life style we are in a rush to get something done. While this makes us move faster through our to do lists, it does little for our…
Scholé Monday
Scholé is a form of restful learning centered on contemplation. It is about giving due time to the things that are worth thinking about. So often in our modern life style we are in a rush to get something done. While this makes us move faster through our to do lists, it does little for our…
Book Review in Three
Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson Book Review in Three is my attempt to give a short summary of my thoughts on a book I’ve finished. The goal is a reading time no longer than three minutes. By nature, these won’t be exhaustive reviews and often I may link to others who have gone…
Scholé Monday
Scholé is a form of restful learning centered on contemplation. It is about giving due time to the things that are worth thinking about. So often in our modern life style we are in a rush to get something done. While this makes us move faster through our to do lists, it does little for our…
A Speck on a Speck on a Speck
"We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere." - Bill Nye I was a huge fan of Bill Nye growing up. He changed science for me, like so many kids of the 90's, making it accessible and fun. If I had…
The Death of Socrates
"Modern man does not have an answer to the question of why. Our society is the first one that simply does not give us any answer to the problem of suffering except a thousand means of avoiding it." -Peter Kreeft During my college career, the importance of the Socratic method was imposed upon me in…
