Tom Hohstadt, Dying to Live

Hohstadt, ThomasDying to Live: The 21st Century Church

( Damah Media, Odessa, TX, 1999) 199 pages, paperback, $10.99 Obtain from Damah Media, 3522 Maple, Odessa, Tx 79762.

Thomas Hohstadt is one of the new digital prophets pointing the way into the future. Hohstad offers us a fascinating and easy read about a difficult subject – the […]

Hirsch, The Permanent Revolution

Let the fireworks begin!  You’ll either love The Permanent Revolution or you’ll hate it.

Hirsch and Catchim have opened a huge can of worms that has been rotting for centuries.  What can am I referring to? The Apostolic can.

The authors declare that it is impossible for the church to reach maturity or unity without rediscovering the five-fold […]

On the Verge

Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson have given us a jewel in the book “On The Verge.”  Obviously by the title one can assume they sense Western Christianity is on the verge of something big- an apostolic movement of gigantic potential for the Church in the West.

What I like about this book is the blending of […]

The Faith of Leap

By Hirsch and Frost

As always the authors have given us a challenging book filled with original material as well as drawing from a number of disciplines to explain or bolster their theme.

To use their own words, the “book is akin to a theology of adventure and an apologetic for risk,” and in doing so […]

Hirsch and Ford, Right Here Right Now

You may have noticed that more church books are being written today on how to live the Christian life than how to grow a church.  Hirsch and Fords book, Right Here Right Now is one of the best of those books. Building on Hirsch’s book, Untamed, this book focuses on how to live the […]

The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch

The book of the month is actually two books this month – The Shaping of Things To Come, Alan Hirsch and Micheal Frost, and The Forgotten Ways, Alan Hirsch.  These two books are on my shelf as two of the most important books of this decade.  Not that I agree with their premise, but […]

ReJesus

By Hirsch and Frost

Frost and Hirsch have provided us with several thought provoking books.  ReJesus is another such book. Like all of their books this one covers a wide range of disciplines within and outside of the Christian environment.

Their prime objective is to call the Christianity back to its radical center- the wild, disruptive […]

Ronald Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers

Heifetz, RonaldLeadership Without Easy Answers

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994, rates four stars. Even though it is written from a business perspective, it provides a wonderful framework in which to develop a workable understanding of ministry.

Organic Outreach

The title is misleading. When I first saw it I thought this was another book on some new kind of program to help a church reach out.  A better title is Natural Faith Sharing: One to one evangelism.

Harney takes the position that every person is an evangelist of some sort- baseball, football, a dress, […]