A friend of mine asked me if I had ever read Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes (Removing cultural blinders to better understand the Bible). Not only had I not read it, I had never heard of it. But I was super intrigued by the title so I picked up the audio book...
I’m glad I finally got around to reading Help My Unbelief by Barnabas Piper. It’s a great read for those of us (probably all of us) who wonder why God “reveals Himself to us in a way that sparks questions rather than settles all of them.” My...
I often read books and think “I should review this book,” which really means I just want to tell people something about the book. Of course, taking the time to properly review a book takes away from my reading time and makes me read differently. So this year, I’ve...
One of the top priorities at Riv is raising up young men to preach the Gospel. We deploy them in our weekend services and send them out to plant new churches around the world. In addition, we have tons of men and women teaching the Bible all over the Lansing area. To...
Hey, everyone. Hope you had a great July! I enjoyed my low-tech month by doing a bit of reading (I’ll put a list of books I read this month at the bottom of this post in case you care about that sort of thing), a bit of baseball travel, and a bit of nerding out...