Great Gifts for Grads

The Grad's Guide to Choosing WellNavPress/Th1nkNavPress, 2010, 167 pp., $14.99, NavPress.com My Utmost for His Highest for the GraduateOswald Chambers (updated by Jim Reimann)Barbour Publishing, 2010, 416 pp.,...

Maximizing Video in Ministry

I remember the day quite clearly, because it's hard to forget that I looked and felt like a fool in front of a room full of people. A friend had promoted me so enthusiastically before I gave a presentation to h...

God Guy and God Girl

God Guy: Becoming the Man You're Meant to BeMichael DiMarcoRevell, 2009, 176 pp., $14.99, RevellBooks.comGod Girl: Becoming the Woman You're Meant to BeHayley DiMarcoRevell, 2009, 176 pp., $14.99, RevellBooks.c...

Text it?

From Don't Call Me Veronica: "On Monday night I received a bunch of random TXT messages from an unknown number ... they claimed to be "three sexy teens" who were bored. It caught me off guard, so I told them...

Connecting Points: The Right Way to Be Wrong

Sunday School stinks. Case in point: I used to be able to evangelize with ease, only later to feel I'd been wrong about how I was sharing my faith through church classes that taught me "the contagious way" to w...

Postmodern Jesus: Dirty Feet and All

It's interesting that so many Christians are going gaga over Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Let me get this straight: Jesus doesn't have the usual ironed robe and Miss America sash, and the perfectly w...

Emergent Apologetics

Debating is a lost cause. Don't believe me? Let's debate it.I have intentionally stayed away from modern apologetics for quite some time. There was a season in my life when I looked forward to finding another p...