Book Reviews

Hunger Games Anyone?

January 7, 2012

A while back I said I would do a quick review on the Hunger Games Trilogy. For me – that means telling you what I liked about it, giving you maybe enough to go on to make a decision about reading them if you’re looking for an enjoyable fiction escape in the near future. My [...]

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Beav’s Favorite Books from 2011

December 30, 2011

It’s that time to post my top books of 2011. I’ll confess – as this year witnessed my liberation from grad school after 9 years part-time, I hit a little more fiction in my routine than normal. So here are some ideas perhaps for you in 2012! If you have a good one, leave a [...]

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Quick Thots on King Jesus Gospel

November 11, 2011

I just finished Scot McKnight’s most recent book King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited and wanted to share a few thoughts. I’m not going to do a big review here. I’ll redirect you to a review my friend Mike did on this book a month or so ago. I’m not sure I would [...]

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Quick Thots on The Girl With Books

October 10, 2011

I read the apparently quite popular The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo courtesy of being told by my book club after I missed the meeting that it was our book for that month. I hadn’t heard anything about it. My reading of this book was interesting. By the time I was done with the book [...]

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Quick Review on Do the Work

October 6, 2011

I’ve only been finishing mostly novels of late, but I just finished Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work which Amazon offered free on kindle a while back. I reviewed a similar book of Pressfields a couple year’s back entitled The War of Art here. Do the Work is similar to The War of Art in that [...]

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Review-A Door Set Open: Grounding Change in Mission & Hope

August 11, 2011

I just finished Peter Steinke’s A Door Set Open: Grounding Change in Mission and Hope. If you’ve read this blog from time to time, his name might sound familiar as I’ve done posts or reviews from his three other books, my favorite of which has been Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times. When I heard about [...]

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Brief Review – Scripture as Communication

June 28, 2011

Finished recently Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics. This was a book written by one of my professors at Bethel Seminary during my long stretch going there part-time between 2004 and 2011. Jeannine Brown was my Introduction to Hermeneutics as well as one of my Greek profs. I found her to be a great teacher [...]

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Quick Review – God’s Big Picture

June 6, 2011

This is a short book, but I found it super valuable. I read this to prepare for being basically a TA in an introductory hermeneutic course for the staff in my organization. It’s about 150 pages and reads pretty fast. It traces the whole of the Biblical narrative from Creation to Revelation as it relates [...]

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Review – Human Development & Spiritual Formation

June 3, 2011

With the rise of the spiritual formation movement in the last decades, many aspects of faith formation have been brought to the surface – and I might say again since much of the movement is anchored in revisiting disciples from other era’s of the church. With that, there’s also been resistance from those that are [...]

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