Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation, by Hugh Hewitt

Book Review – Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation thats Changing Your World, by Hugh Hewitt. Subheading is “Why you must know how the BLOGOSPHERE is smashing the OLD MEDIA MONOPOLY and giving individuals power in the marketplace of ideas. I bought this book last year and was a little disappointed with it so i have…

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Bob Whitesel: Inside the Organic Church

Book Review: Inside the Organic Church: Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations, by Bob Whitesel This book chronicles Bob’s pilgrimage to a number of well-known, somewhat larger emerging and seeker type churches including Solomons Porch, Vintage Church, St Thoms in England and Mars Hill in Michigan. None of these churches have radically reshaped the form of…

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God on Mute by Pete Grieg

Book Review: God On Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer by Pete Grieg Pete doodled on the copy he sent me. Pete Grieg has written an excellent book (Iggy agrees) and I know how hard it is for Pete to write books. I have known Pete pretty well for 7 years and I can…

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15 Book Review Marathon : Thursday 8th on TSK

15 Book Review Marathon. Thats November 8th, all day. I have a whole bunch of books that I have read and I need to review on this blog. Its going to be a long and arduous day of blogging my way through these books. Come and join the fun. There will be a special guest…

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Brian McLaren: Everything Must Change

This is a few weeks late. Sorry ’bout that. I received a preview copy a month ago and i should have written something earlier. I have actually been traveling a lot – only 2 days at home in the past few weeks and i didnt feel ready for feedback and questions at the time. But…

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The Ugly Blogger – Wikiklesia

Despite my chapter called “The Ugly Blogger”, positive endorsements for the first Wikiklesia e-book, released a few days ago, are coming in. “The hive-mind of Christianity speaks! It brings news of the future. Uttered like a prayer retrieved from the year 2030, spoken in a new tongue, a new form. Listen!” Kevin Kelly, co-founder, Wired…

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Wikiklesia: The world’s first self-perpetuating nomadic business model?

“Wikiklesia may be the world’s first self-perpetuating nomadic business model – raising money for charities – giving voice to emerging writers and artists – generating a continuous stream of new books covering all manner of relevant topics. Nobody remains in control. There is no board of directors. The franchise changes hands as quickly as new…

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Mark Dever gets Merit Award

Mark Dever gets the 2007 Christianity Today Merit Award for his book The Message of the Old Testament: Promises Made. I haven’t read the book, and at $40 I might not be rushing out to buy it on first impulse, but it seems to be a hefty reference book that might get a workout from…

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Truth War: Is the EC really the New Skid on the Jock?

So my book arrived. The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception, by John Macarthur. Just curious – did anyone receive copies for review? I sure didn’t. But no regrets in purchasing it. I said i was going to discuss the book but it probably deserves a few more posts because it…

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Emergent Manifesto of Hope

Emergent Manifesto of Hope, edited by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones who do a great job in bringing a plethora of American emergent voices together in one book, but don’t seem to have anything memorably profound themselves to add. But maybe that egalitarianism is part of the emergent flavor and the token of 2 hosts…

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Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches. Part One.

An early release copy just arrived and I read it straight away. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches, edited by Robert Webber. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did! Fantastic book! Really. And this means i have to make room on my top ten Emerging Church books. Dr. Robert Webber…

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Forgotten Ways and Alan Hirsch’s Online Course

My good friend Alan Hirsch of FORGE has a new book “The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church” and it has just been released. But you knew that already. I am running a little late on this blog post but at the same time, Alan and our DAWN team have a special offer for you…

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Frank Viola’s Passion

New book just released by Frank Viola. Its called God’s Ultimate Passion: Unveiling the Purpose Behind Everything and its about THE CHURCH. Frank sidesteps the maze of ecclesiastic labels to get to the heart of what church really is and how God sees it. Using the biblical metaphors of church, and fleshing them out with…

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A Prediction for 2007

Last year I said video would shake the blogosphere, and not podcasting. At the time, a lot of church ministers where going ga-ga over podcasting and the possibility of getting more milage out of their sermons and unfortunately, there wasn’t a lot of creativity in the podcasting genre. Video, on the other hand, opened up…

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When the Darkness Will Not Lift, by John Piper

When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God – and Joy, by John Piper, is a great little book and I do mean LITTLE. I started it with a hot bath and finished when the water temperature had turned a pleasant warm. Its short and concise and almost…

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The Truth War: John MacArthur and Emerging Church

UPDATE: Reviewing the Book Part ONE – Is the Emerging Church Really the new skid on the block? ORIGINAL: Call me a romantic optimist blinded by love if you like but I think John MacArthur’s upcoming book on The The Truth War will not be a destructive atomic fundy-bomb dropped on the emerging church. I…

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Whos Got Trouble with the Tulip?

Trouble with the Tulip by Frank Page. Its out of print but i need to read it. Can someone please lend it to me? This month is officially my last month as Consultant with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and I am writing up a report of my past 8 years of service in…

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Out of Bounds Church Gets Blogged

The Out of Bounds Church by Steve Taylor, says Pernell Goodyear, is the best book on the emerging church to date. He has just blogged his way through the book which means, if you were too stingy to buy it, you might be able to partake of its fruit. Chapter One is a free read.…

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Wolfgang Simson’s book delayed

Wolfgang called me last night and we had a long chat. He has delayed the online release of his new book at the request of ministry leaders around the world. It should come out in December and I will be tracking it here. In the meantime, download his previous book, Houses That Change the World…

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The Church Under The Cross, J.B. Phillips (1956)

This book just turned 50 but its totally worth a read if you can find it. Phillips wrote it at the request of the Church Missionary Society as a response to reports from the “Younger Churches” around the world. Today, we would call them emerging churches. Very insightful, especially his take on the African churches.…

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