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Recently, a friend of mine returned my copy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community. I’ve read the book a couple of times, and my friend had asked me if he could borrow it. To be honest, I had completely forgotten that I had given it to him. But, when my friend returned the book, I decided to read through it again. Early in the first chapter, I ran across a...

Jeremy at “Till He Comes” is putting together a book about the church. He tells us more about his plans in a post called “You Can Help Write a Book on Church.” I took part in a similar project last year, contributing a chapter to the book The Practice of Love. I enjoyed the process, so I thought I would let my readers know about this opportunity. So, what kind of contributions is Jeremy loo...

Every year since I started blogging in 2006, I’ve chosen a “best book” of the year. I’ve already had two criteria for choosing those books: 1) it had to be a book that I read for the first time that year and 2) it had to be a book about the church. (I mean, this blog is about the church, right?) But, this year, by plan and by design, I decided to not read new books about the church. (I did ...

Dave Black announced yesterday that he is putting the finishing touches on a new book called Will You Join the Cause of Global Missions? If you read Dave’s blog, you know that he and his wife have been focused on proclaiming the gospel and strengthening the church in various countries around the world for the last several years. They do not do this work through any kind of missions organization, although the...

Several years ago, when I was still in the middle of my MDiv studies at Southeastern, two books in particular were very influential on me. The books were not necessarily influential on my thoughts and understanding about God or the church. Instead, these two books and authors helped me realize that it was possible to present what I was learning about the church in an academic or scholarly manner. Those two books w...

I’ve published my first “real” post for “Under Christ’s Archy” called “Excerpts from The Subversion of Christianity – The Contradictions.” The purpose of the post is to promote discussion based on some excerpts from the first chapter (“The Contradictions”) of Jacques Ellul’s book The Subversion of Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986). Here ...

Dr. John MacArthur has made it his habit to read from various Bible commentaries over passages that he is preaching on.  I have always been intrigued by this but never have done it so recently I decided to purchase   Tyndale's Old Testament Commentary on the books of 1 and 2 Kings.  This commentary is just small enough for me to carry with me to work or other places and use in my Bible reading.  It is far more deeper than the ...

The Summer is a great time for things to slow down a bit. We enjoy vacations, a bit of a slower pace and the beautiful weather. A bi-product of this time is the opportunity to get some extra reading in. In the past I have benefited greatly from others sharing the books they were reading in the summer. Therefore, I figured it may be of interest to share what I have in my backpack, so to speak, for the summer. I am excited about these books. Redis...

Tweet Three years ago, I wrote a post called “What is a ‘traditional church’?” The post was inspired by a couple of paragraphs in a book that I was reading. In the book, the author defines most of the terms that he used, included the term “traditional church.” Do you agree with this author’s definition? Should anything be added to his definition? Should anything be removed or changed? —&#...

Recently I went to the local Christian bookstore to browse and the lady working there tried to get me to buy a book, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back.  Now I can't make a judgment about the book because I have not read the book and nor will I.  I have never enjoyed these types of books.  When I first became a disciple, someone gave me the book, A Divine Revelation of Hell by Ma...