Chris Bishop

While we were in Disney a couple of weeks ago I took “The Sweet Taste of the Bilge” with me on my kindle.  I was looking for a good summertime kind of read and I got it.  If you are looking for a book that will transport you to palm trees and the lapping ocean [...]

Rob Bell just released a new book a couple of weeks ago.  It is all about Heaven and Hell.  It takes some of the thought about both and examines them and then moves into some new territory for most.  I don’t want to post a review here, or my thoughts about where Bell goes with the [...]

Have you grown up in the church and want to see it succeed in the years to come?  Have you been hurt by the church or people who call themselves Christian? Are you tired of searching for a faith community, but only finding worship and churches that seem to be out of touch?  Have you ever had [...]

I am reading another book for the Blogging ofo Books program that I am involved with.  This is actually the very first non Mark Batterson book that I am read.  It is entitles The Next Christians by Gabe Lyons.  he is the author of the very good book “Unchristian.”  I am loving this book so [...]

I received my free copy of mark Batterson’s new book Soulprint a on Wednesday December 29th from Water Brook Multnomah Publishing Group.  I had set a goal in my mind to have it read and a review posted by the beginning of the year. Batterson made it easy to meet that goal. In this book [...]

I recently picked up Brian McLaren’s newest book again.  I had started reading it a couple of weeks ago at night and now it has made its way to the daytime reading list (more or less because I have a really bad book that the conference is requiring us to read and I am putting [...]

Over the past week or so i have had the opportunity to read Mark Batterson’s new book entitled Primal:A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity.  Batterson is the lead pastor of National Community Church and the author of Wild Goose Chase and In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day. In his [...]