Russ write about Artists and their Journey. You are revealed a story of what life is like when your inspired by the world around you. More than a christian perspective.
But as we are all gifted by God, regardless of our relationship with God.
It is a Compelling read and so to is his other book Rembrant....
If you want to make a lasting meaningful impact especially cross culturally, this book contains a lifetime of lived experience and lessons. You don’t have to be in the healthcare field to enjoy this moving story of triumph over adversity.
I have played it many times with friends and family and it is starting to become one of the favourites!
I was really looking forward to this product however I haven’t received it yet. Hope I can get it soon!
Awesome advice and practical playbook to implement. Great functional ways to fulfil kingdom purposes on earth.
Through each chapter in this book Kate Pocklington unpacks her summary of how God shapes us. This makes it very easy to follow, and well worth pushing at the end of each chapter to ponder the questions posed. The central theme of the statue of David being formed by Michelangelo is something I will take with me.
I really enjoyed the authors style of writing and their further explanation of each era. The effort of research is apparent, yet it felt more like I was reading a good biography.
This book is for everyone, from coffee table addicts to those wanting in depth information. The photography and layout makes for very attractive browsing and the captions and descriptions are very informative for tourists. The text also contains a wealth of information on geology and geomorphology for the more enquiring reader. Anf for the price you can't expect to get better value.
This is an excellent book to introduce both children and adults into talking with God.
I’ve seen many books on networking and sales in my time, but this one is the most superior by far. Practical, easy to follow with hilarious and engaging stories from the author’s background. I highly recommend it.
From cover to cover, this book is beautiful to read and wonder over. The fall leaves and autumn tones offer a warm, cosy feel. The existence and love of God is explained without feeling over preachy. 'I can’t believe my eyes!' is a lovely story about a boy and his dad, discussing what it means to believe in an invisible God.
I read this book during my pregnancy with my first child and it was great. Pastoral, scriptural and practical. It gave me a deeper understanding of the way pregnancy, birth, and motherhood images our God, as well as insights into how to make choices around pregnancy care and birthing that honour God, my body, and my baby. My only criticism would be that the chapter dealing with grief and loss (infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, disability) can feel a bit trite to one who’s felt that deep pain. I guess the author is trying not to give unmerited cause for anxiety to the majority of women who will have safe and normal pregnancies, but it did feel a bit painful to read a chapter that should make me feel seen and feel still very invisible.
In simple terms, this book looks at forgiveness through the lens of the Gospel. And the reader experience is one that sensitively challenges and guides you toward deep change.
As I read it I was moved to thankfulness and challenged to grow. So all in all it was a thoroughly worthwhile day of reading.
We have given this book as a gift to so many people. It is a deeply moving personal story of AP’s walk with God. If you love his music you should read his story. Alternatively, if you read his books you should listen to his music. Either way, you will be blessed and will appreciate your Maker more as a result.
Andrew Heard is a leader's leader, with years of experience in the trenches of the most dynamic and challenging environment - that of church planting.
He writes from a place of deep conviction and lived experience to address the problems and sketch out potential solutions by applying a kingdom lens to how to manage the tension of having a passion for growth yet recognising the challenges of leading change.
The topics are dressed in a sequential and logical order to build a case for the why, what and how of growth and change.
Written from the perspective of a Pauline apostle, he recognises the importance of cultural engagement and contexulisation in implementing any new initiative that will involve change.
Where the book would have benefited from further content is in the area of what is world's best practice in leading organic growth in organisations and change management.
There is a wealth of content on how to do both in the marketplace which is closely aligned to kingdom philosophy and principles that can be engaged with and adopted.
That acknowledged, this a book worth engaging with and for leadership teams to work through as small group.
It will encourage you to wrestle with the issues and provide you with an interpretive lens to consider how to best make progress wherever you are on the growth and change journey.
As you would expect from Matthias, this is a easily readable book that applies a gospel framework to underpin our thinking about this exponential technology that is transforming every dimension of our lives.
Driscoll writes from a strategic and tactical perspective, charting the landscape of AI as it stood at the time of publication, and rightly notes that the book will likely be out of date within a few months as the tool that is AI continues to get more and more intelligent.
This is reflected in all the desktop research I have been doing in my day job.
The theology is sound and robust, going back to fundamental philosophical questions like "what is a human"?
From there it builds out a gospel response from creation through fall into redemption and eschatology to chart a course where we can transcend the technology and begin to get a handle on how Human Intelligence (what I call HQ) can engage and redeem the tool.
Think of it like the story of the golden calf, where a tool was used to make an idol to worship.
As people rush to AI as a potential saviour of mankind, Made in Our Image provides us with a kingdom lens through which to filter the noise and discern what signals to listen to.
A good place to start if you want to begin your journey to alignging AQ with HQ so the tool of AI will serve the work you need to do.
This book is a good general overview of a Christian approach to politics or civic engagement more broadly. Jensen seems more optimistic about national governance and willing to accept heavy-handedness from the government, and communicated other opinions I would contest. An easy read but morally challenging.
Also, the Wandering Bookseller sent the book promptly and it was offered at a competitive price to other retailers. I was happy with the service. Thank you.
How much sacrifice is enough? When should we be enjoying God's gifts? How do we look after ourselves? Is it just different for different people?
Written for those believers who've given so much for Christ but now fallen flat, those who are running strong and are frustrated by others Christian's (seeming) lack of ambition and zeal, and those who want to give more in Christ's service but keep hitting their limitations, this book is filled with plenty of good bible exposition, esp 1 Cor 7. Mikey gives us a framework for how to think about these questions as well as dead-ends and wrong answers (ie when it starts to hurt, that's probably enough). I also loved how this book made high-level ethical thinkers accessible.
All good, and is a good gift for the one who became a Christian.
Something different, well worth a read as it chronicles the achievements of Christianity across the centuries, as well as helping to grasp the significance, for believers, of the movements afoot in our present age.
In a world where echo chambers abound and polarisation to extremes is all too common, in this brief Michael Jensen has provided us with a vision of how to follow Christ as a citizen of heaven while living here on earth.
The book argues that Christianity is political. Christians believe that Jesus is Lord, and that’s a claim about the political order of the cosmos.
As such, “Our act of gathering together under the lordship of Jesus Christ, in our (mostly) small local churches, is the most powerful piece of politics we can do” (P192).
Jensen distinguishes Politics 1.0 from Politics 2.0.
Politics 1.0 is the politics of the world, the politics we talk about and read about.
Politics 2.0 is the great political work of Jesus Christ in establishing and maintaining his rule over the world.
It’s the political program of the kingdom of God.
It supervenes our squabbles about capital gains tax or public school spending, though it doesn’t erase their importance.
Unfortunately, “the captivity of Christianity to worldly politics (Politics 1.0) as a means of protecting or advancing the faith is not simply a strategic disaster.
It is a spiritual disaster… When that has been the case, Christians have shown a deeper faith in the patterns of the world than they have in the sovereignty of God and the lordship of Christ. It is not too much to say that this is a form of idolatry.” (P191).
So, what is Christian politics all about?
“A true Christian politics is not, then, in the first place about being more political: it is about being more Christian.” (p189).
And the route to this distinctiveness is grace and transformation, “The most effective political thing that Christians can do is to open ourselves to being transformed by the grace of God as we renew our minds. We need to be people who are metamorphosed into the image of Jesus Christ. By living lives that show that Jesus Christ is Lord, we will be engaging in the most powerful political program ever devised, even though it might not look like it in the middle of history.” (p53).
Unfortunately, a lot of Christians take their eye off the ball and put their deepest hope in Politics 1.0.
Jensen discusses the sort of eschatological (end times) hope that even Christians put in their governments (p95).
Instead of such hope, Jensen counsels pragmatism and realism.
Michael unpacks Romans 12—15, and argues from it that Christians should be realists because government operates “in the sphere of hard-heartedness rather than in the sphere of the Spirit.” (p98).
The book is illustrated by political history and theory, but its heartbeat is the Biblical story.
That Biblical story has a lot to offer the world, since, amongst other things “What secular Western culture has difficulty admitting is that the idea of the equality of all human beings and the notion of human rights-meaning that we owe one another certain fundamental dignities and freedoms-are learned not from nature or reason but from Christianity.” (p162).
Occasionally, in search of better Politics 2.0, the book rebukes you: “So let me say this directly to you, because probably no-one dares say it to you face to face: If conflict follows you around and you think you are never at fault, then could you have it wrong? Conduct a fair inventory of your last conflict. Can you honestly say that you didn't contribute to it? Do you have an 'I might have got it wrong' category?” (p75).
Hence it ended up being more practical and personal than I expected.
There are a few slightly controversial claims (which is good!) like that Christians should have obeyed government mask and lockdown mandates (p110), that character and competence are more important than whether a candidate has faith (p97, relevant to a certain American presidential candidate), or that many different political forms are Biblical, but that anarchism is not (p99).
I’d happily recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about a Christian perspective on politics.
This is a brilliant book providing a First Nation's perspective on theology and church issues. I would highly recommend. Very happy with the speed of delivery, price and simplicity of ordering.
Mikey Lynch addresses the question of what is church by looking at what is not church and where is the line between the two. This is not merely a book of ideas but practically applied. This is an important book to help someone think through church.