Book Reviews

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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Another Brief Review – Breaking Through to Teens

May 3, 2011

I’ll continue getting back into the swing of things on the blogfront with another book review. I had to recently read Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence by Ron Taffel. It’s directed to help professionals and counselors who are struggling to help and offer productive help for this millenial generation of teenagers. [...]

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Friedman’s Fables (Brief Review)

January 4, 2011

If you’ve read some of the posts here on this blog referencing family or congregational systems theory, perhaps you’ve been intrigued but you haven’t read a lot. Friedman’s Fables might be a helpful entry point for you.I recently finished the book even though I had read bits and pieces over the last few years. Obviously, [...]

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Beav’s Favorite Books from 2010

December 26, 2010

As I continue my “Best of” from 2010 posts, I’m offering up the books I enjoyed and appreciated the most from 2010. Honorable mention goes to Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf, The Gift of Pain by Dr. Paul Brand & Philip Yancey, The Future Arrived Yesterday by Michael Malone, Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, The [...]

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Thoughts on Ruth

April 30, 2010

If you haven’t read this week’s guest blog by Jim O’Connor, you can get there by clicking on this link. Go check it out. I came away with a couple things I’m still thinking about and chances are you will too. I’m looking forward to more guest posts in the future. In the meantime, it’s [...]

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Beav’s Best Books of 2009

December 11, 2009

It’s time to post my top 5 books of 2009 (plus or minus a book or two). As I looked at what I’ve read this year it strikes me that 2009 for me was the most diverse and broad reading journey that I’ve probably had in any year. I read a lot of books that [...]

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My Top 10 Reasons I Liked the Harry Potter Books

November 17, 2009

Here’s my short list of why I liked reading the Harry Potter series and why you might want to consider reading it if you haven’t read them. I’ve read all of the them in the past few months and was surprised. I thought it was going to be like 4th grade reading level and while [...]

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Thoughts on I Once Was Lost (Review)

October 14, 2009

I just finished the book I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp. This is a pretty short book on postmodern evangelism which I thought was pretty helpful. I’ll share a few thoughts from the book here. First, I liked this book because [...]

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Silence (Review)

September 25, 2009

I already shared a few thoughts about Silence by Shusaku Endo that were anchored in the prologue to the book, but wanted to give a few more thoughts after finishing the book.This book deals with two key issues, the first of which is contextualization or issues pertaining to the gospel and culture. The second of [...]

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