Joan Chittister’s book The Liturgical Year is a simple journey through the very basics of the liturgical year. It is a book not slowed down by lists and explanations of the various feasts and fasts of the year, but centers mostly on the two pillars of the liturgical year – the Advent and Lenten seasons. […]
Continue ReadingIn Deuteronomy, God says that he defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the foreigners, giving them food and clothing {Deut. 10:18}. If God defends a cause, we ought to get right behind him in it, which is what Matthew Barnett has done. Barnett currently oversees the LA Dream Center, a […]
Continue ReadingWhen I opened the front cover of my newly acquired Lucado Life Lessons Study Bible, I knew I was going to like it. On the inside dust jacket flap is a little something written by Max Lucado reflecting on the power of the words “It is written…” and I decided then and there that I […]
Continue ReadingThe Gospel According to Jesus by Chris Seay With a title like that, there was a lot to live up to in this book. The book began with a fairly in-your-face discussion of how the church doesn’t know the meaning of the word “righteousness†and how that is where a huge portion of our problems […]
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