Connecting People and Communities
Rating: out of 5
Author: Lauren F. Winner
Year: 2006
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1587431971
Lauren Winner does an excellent job Biblically examining sexuality, shaking off the victorian and Hollywood views of sexuality so prevalent in today’s cultural christianity to expose the beautiful, normal sexuality God has called us to.
Rating: out of 5
Author: Jean Vanier
Year: 1992
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 0809133415
In this extremely short book (actually a transcript of a lecture he gave at Harvard), Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, discusses the importance of community. It is in community that we realize our own brokeness and only in community that we can find healing.
Rating: out of 5
Author: Mike Yankoski
Year: 2005
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 1590524020
This is a great chronicle of a student who felt called to spend 5 months on the street as a homeless man. Wow!
Rating: out of 5
Author: Matt Roper
Year: 2004
Publisher: Authentic Media
ISBN: 1850785961
Rating: out of 5
Author: Larry Crabb
Year: 1998
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310219396
Unlike Eldridge’s combination of Nietschean masculinity with cultural christianity in Wild at Heart, Larry Crabb thoughtfully and Biblically explores what it means to be a Godly man in this excellent work.
Author: Donald Miller
Year: 2003
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0785263705
Many of my friends really like Blue Like Jazz, I read a few chapters and just didn’t get into it.
Rating: out of 5
Author: Ronald J. Sider
Year: 2005
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0849945305
Rating: out of 5
Author: Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson
Year: 1999
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310226503
Written by two former leaders in the “Moral Majority,” Blinded by Might argues that seeking the Kingdom through political means in problematic.
Rating: out of 5
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Year: 2003
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 0800683242
My favorite book. In this incredible work, Dietrich Bonhoeffer dispels the myth of cheap grace and calls us to extreme devotion.
My passion is building healthy and sustainable communities to shape and inspire the Church. This work involves everything from networking individuals of similar calls together and pastoral care to leading and exploring relational expressions of ecclesia to advising and coaching communities and church leaders. [Read More …]
