Here is a bit more of what Steven Pressfield says about Resistance: “There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” “Most of us have two […]

Some people can trace key movements in their life story back to important conversations, chance encounters, or dramatic events. For me, it’s been mostly books. One of the primary ways God has guided my life has been by putting certain books in my hand at just the right moment. When I was struggling through a […]

Here’s a few books I’ve had the chance to read through in the past couple of weeks. The Tangible Kingdom: This book was recommended to me numerous times over the past couple of months. I finally picked it up and started reading. It’s full of practical advice and stories about how to create incarnational community […]

I’ve been sporadically blogging through I Once Was Lost, by Everts and Schaupp. They work through five thresholds postmodern skeptics usually cross on their way to faith in Jesus. I summarized them in a previous post and we looked at the first three thresholds here and here and here. The fourth threshold is that skeptics […]

In I Once Was Lost, Everts and Schaup unpack five thresholds postmodern skeptics usually cross on their way to faith in Jesus. I summarized them in a previous post and we looked at the first two thresholds here and here. The third threshold is that skeptics must be open to change in their lives. The […]

In I Once Was Lost, Everts and Schaup unpack five thresholds postmodern skeptics usually cross on their way to faith in Jesus. I summarized them in a previous post and we looked at the first threshold, trusting a Christian, here. The second threshold is that the skeptic must become curious about Jesus. Just because a […]

In I Once Was Lost, Everts and Schaup unpack five thresholds postmodern skeptics usually cross on their way to faith in Jesus. I summarized them in a previous post. The first of these thresholds is that the skeptic must come to trust a Christian. We live in an era of distrust. We no longer trust […]

One of the books I’ve come across as I’ve been reading about launching a church in a post-Christian culture is I Once Was Lost by Don Everts and Doug Schaupp. They do a great job telling the stories of a number of postmodern skeptics who have become Christ-followers. They map out five thresholds that most […]