A few weeks ago, while attending the Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, I was heading into an event for Union University when Todd Starnes introduced himself to me. Todd is an anchor and reporter for Fox News who is based out of New York City. Todd grabbed my attention when he told me that he reads my blog. It's
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The good folks at Crossway Books are wonderful to send me books from time to time to read and review. As something of a "bookophile" getting free books makes me about as happey as a guy can be! This time they sent me Mark Driscoll's new book, Vintage Church (VC). As someone who is admittedly a fan of much of
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I'm a huge fan of the book "The Five Love Languages" by Dr. Gary Chapman. I've gone on record saying that it may just be the most practically helpful book for marriages, outside of the Bible. Mark Driscoll, who I also happen to be a very big fan of, recently talked about the love languages while preaching through the Song
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A few weeks ago I was offered the opportunity to be a part of Ed Stetzer and Philip Nation's blog tour as they share with others about their new book, Compelled by Love. These guys generously offered to send me a copy of the book to review, which I was more than excited to do. After reading the book, however,
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I am currently sitting in my hotel room relaxing after a long day here in Indy. Tracy and I made it here last night much quicker than we anticipated and thankfully missed all of the flooding that has covered Indiana just south of Indy.
Today was a busy day, but an enjoyable one. I spent a good bit of this morning
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This should probably be my last post before heading to Indianapolis. I'm backed up with work to do and I've got a wedding to perform this weekend so I don't think I'll have time to write anymore. I wanted to write a quick note and mention a couple of things to look for while I'm gone to the convention.
First, I
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David Dockery has recently written a fantastic book called "Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal". I enjoyed having the opportunity to read it over the past couple of days.
Dockery is the President of Union University in Jackson, Tennessee and the former Dean of the School of Theology and Vice-President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This book is
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Dr. Joel Rainey has written a new book, Planting Churches in the Real World, that is a fantastic find if you are planting a church of thinking of planting a church. What's more, if you are in a traditional church I am convinced that much of the material in the book can be helpful to you as well. Rainey has
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