I’ve been to countless seminars and read probably dozens of books on small group ministry. For the past couple of decades, we have consistently heard that the right small group programs will grow our church, create fully-devoted Christ-followers, ease the burden on pastors, return us to New Testament Christianity, etc., and I’ve said those things [...]
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Books I have read: The Search to Belong
Posted by Chris on December 10, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/10/books-i-have-read-the-search-to-belong/
Books I have read: Jesus Through the Centuries
Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan is not a devotional work, it is an insightful and valuable slice of intellectual history. Jaroslav Pelikan’s 1985 overview of Christianity’s founding figure, Jesus Christ, as seen through the centuries after His birth and death is a remarkable, readable account of just how [...]
Posted by Chris on December 9, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/09/books-i-have-read-jesus-through-the-centuries/
Books I have read: The Gospel-Driven Church
Ian Stackhouse The Gospel-Driven Church has some unpalatable medicine to hand out to the evangelical charismatic church. The book starts with an unpleasant diagnosis: Falling short of its ecclesial calling in Christ, the church is instead going after “relevant” preaching; musician-led and emotionally fuelled worship; numerical growth at all costs, and what he calls “faddism” – [...]
Posted by Chris on December 8, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/08/books-i-have-read-the-gospel-driven-church/
Books I have read: Developing Your Prophetic Gifting
Developing Your Prophetic Gifting by Graham Cooke is the best, most balanced guide to prophecy and the development of the gift in individuals and the local church I have read to date. It’s hard to single out any one aspect but I especially appreciated discussions around the prophet working with the pastor and teacher, the evangelist and [...]
Posted by Chris on December 7, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/07/books-i-have-read-developing-your-prophetic-gifting/
Books I have read: The Call to Joy and Pain: Embracing Suffering in Your Ministry
I heard Ajith Fernando speak at Cape Town 2010 – the Third Lausanne Congress on the theme of suffering and was captivated by his blend of biblical exposition and life application. Following that I picked up The Call to Joy and Pain: Embracing Suffering in Your Ministry. Ajith Fernando knows about suffering. He has seen horrendous suffering during his ministry [...]
Posted by Chris on December 6, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/06/books-i-have-read-the-call-to-joy-and-pain-embracing-suffering-in-your-ministry/
Books I have read: Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church
Doug Pagitt is a lead pastor at a church in Minnesota called Solomon’s porch. Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church is about his journey away from the program centred mega-church into a more organic, decentralized community. He talks about some new ways of viewing spiritual formation that are quite different [...]
Posted by Chris on December 5, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/05/books-i-have-read-reimagining-spiritual-formation-a-week-in-the-life-of-an-experimental-church/
Books I have read: Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation
Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation by Gordon Smith is one of those books that has slipped under the radar (I had never heard about it until a few months ago), but it really should be widely read. We would do well to think about conversion and the impact the type of conversion can have on [...]
Posted by Chris on December 4, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/04/books-i-have-read-beginning-well-christian-conversion-and-authentic-transformation/
Books I have read: The Jesus Gospel: Recovering The Lost Message
Has the message of Jesus been lost all these years? That is the question that Liam Goligher asks and answers in The Jesus Gospel: Recovering The Lost Message - a response to Steve Chalke’s The Lost Message of Jesus. The Jesus Gospel summarises the penal substitutionary model of the atonement. Goligher breaks down the biblical story [...]
Posted by Chris on December 3, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/03/books-i-have-read-the-jesus-gospel-recovering-the-lost-message/
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