The Return

Review: Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News Brian Zahnd Waterbrook Press 2017 This author has done some thinking.   I'd recommend this book if for no other reason than to challenge yourself as to what and why you believe what you do.   I'm sure there will plenty of posts in some sectors that will not approve of Zahnd's conclusions.   Others will cheer the direction he has taken.   He's a very persuasive author, but comes off a bit strident at times throughout this book.   I did find most of what he had to say a welcome change of rhetoric.   In fact, I think this is a long overdue corrective to some of the teachings in the Christian religion.      Each chapter can be read alone, but I think a better over view of the author’s mind set would probably come from the order it is presented.   As the title hints, Zahnd presents his version of how God treats sinners whic...

Review: As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God Eugene H. Peterson Waterbrook 2017 I am enjoying this book so much already that I decided to go ahead a write a few lines about it.   Eugene Peterson is hardly a new name to many people, but for me, we are just getting acquainted.   And I’ve found that this book is a treasure, maybe even a classic.   Time will decide that.   I hope the parishioners he served over the years will find it so. This is a compilation of his sermons arranged in seven sets of seven centered around seven key figures of the Bible from Moses to John of Patmos.   The lives and times of those individuals will also take the reader through the timeline of the Bible and a lot if its text.   His sermons are not long or tedious.   Nor is this a book that you plow through and set aside.   Instead, he gives the reader food for thought that requires time to di...