It was a not a perfect book – but it was good. Four friends and I had read it together over the summer. I was challenged to pray more for my wife and my friends could no doubt talk about the good things they also got from it. Weaknesses? The chapter on ‘ministry’ mentioned evangelism where “four of whom made professions of faith…three of whom continue following Christ today, two in the ministry!”. Why my unease? (more…)
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Long-term evangelistic fruit
September 22, 2011Firing through all of life…
April 10, 2010… is the title of this book I read a couple of years ago. The linked page includes a review I wrote.
If you’re a midde-aged bloke who likes sex; can empathise with Bruce Springsteen songs; and suspects that the Old Testmanent book of Ecclesiastes is relevant – then you’ll like this.
John Stott: professional Christian (2)
March 12, 2010I have completed this two-volume biography and I now see that John Stott is one of the giants on whose shoulders I have been standing – without having fully realised it. John Stott was having to think through so much himself with very little help and I must be careful not to over-decry professional Christian writers and teachers from whom I have benefited so much. (more…)
John Stott: professional Christian (1)
February 23, 2010My younger brother lent me Timothy Dudley Smith’s two-volume biography of John Stott – an ordained Anglican minister and well-known in circles in which he is well-known. I airily pronounced that I was little interested in biographies of professional Christians. But my brother responded that the biography was also inter-woven with the history of evangelicalism in the 20th century – a topic which does intrigue me.
Here are some observations: (more…)
