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Book Review: Ready, Steady, Grow by Ray Evans

I just finished reading Ray Evan’s new book Ready, Steady, Grow: Equipping Today’s Gospel Churches. Ray is pastor of Grace Community Church in Bedford, England. The book came out a few months ago, and I was very curious to hear his thoughts on leading churches to grow. Below is a description of the book and a few quotes […]

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Book Review: The Effective Father

I just finished reading The Effective Father by George MacDonald. Like many of the books on my shelf, it was neglected for far too long. But I must say that I really enjoyed the book. I would highly recommend that all men who are fathers read it and especially fathers of young children. We often think […]

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Book Review: From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya

I am almost ashamed to admit that I just finished reading From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya for the first time.  I feel like I should have read this book a decade ago!  But, at any rate, I am glad I have finally read it. The book is a biographical history of Christian missions.  It tells the […]

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Book Review: Behold the City by Matthew Recker

Matthew Recker is a church-planter in New York City who has faced the challenges and fears of one of the biggest cities in the world.  He has planted several Baptist churches in the city.  His book Behold the City is described as “a realistic and hard-hitting look at the vast needs of the city and […]

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Book Review: Building Your Leadership Resume

Building Your Leadership Resume is a book of 40 short chapters.  Each chapter examines a different aspect of leadership by Pastor Johnny Hunt of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, GA.  The book covers topics from a leader’s passion and the insecure leader to the leader’s spouse and the leader’s assistant. I really found this book […]

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Book Review: I Saw the Welsh Revival

Pastor Billy Wallace from Trenton, Georgia gave me a copy of I Saw the Welsh Revival by David Matthews while we were on the UK Vision Tour in June of this year.  While on the tour, we actually visited the church where the Welsh revival began in Lougher, Wales. It was exciting to read the […]

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Book Review: Ten Secrets for a Successful Family

When Teri and I went on our 10th anniversary get-away, I took Ten Secrets for a Successful Family with me.  It had been on my shelf for a while. In the book, Pastor Adrian Rodgers looks at how the ten commandments can be applied to the home.  He uses a good balance of Scriptural teaching […]

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Book Review: A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23

Living in Ireland, sheep are a very common sight all around.  They fit in well with the hilly, grassy terrain.  Not having been a shepherd, I miss some of the impact of the many shepherd and sheep analogies in the Bible.  A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by Phillip Keller was given to me by […]

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Book Review: Ordering Your Private World

A few months ago, a man in our church gave me a copy of Ordering Your Private World by George MacDonald.  To be honest, I did not take much notice of it until a few weeks ago.  As I began to read, I realised that the author had experienced many of the same things I experience: […]

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Book Review: An Enquiry…by William Carey

While is Moulton, England, two weeks ago, we went to Carey Baptist Church where William Carey, the father of modern missions, first pastored.  Here in the cottage near the church, must of Carey’s vision for the world began.  We saw the actual cottage and a reconstruction of the original map he made of the world, […]

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