Books

Confession Leads to Grace

I can really relate to this advice given by Jack Miller: Essentially I need to confess to God that I have a deep-seated need to protect and control my life and ministry. Once

Unfashionable

Tullian Tchividjian’s new book Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different is out. It’s one of those books I’ve been looking forward to for a long time.

Inside the Heart of a Servant Leader

My latest column at Christian Week: For a long time, I kept looking to new thinkers to teach me how to minister effectively in a post-Christian culture. New thinkers have their place, but

The Message of the Cross

John Miller in The Heart of a Servant Leader: The message of the cross takes away the burden of guilt and sin, removes forever the divine wrath from us; then it takes away

What’s a Good Sermon?

In his book Why Johnny Can’t Preach, T. David Gordon taps an old book (Sacred Rhetoric by Robert Lewis Dabney, circa 1870) for “The Seven Cardinal Requisites of Preaching.” I think it’