Rising Strong The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. by Brene’ Brown This week The Open Table features guest reviewer, Landrum P. Leavell III. Lan is a friend, avid reader and a pastor at The Village Church in Denton, Texas. I have had the chance to hear...
Incarnation The Surprising Overlap of Heaven & Earth by William H. Willimon Christmas is a crazy, cluttered and cramped season for most of us. Looking back at Advent, we may need to admit that the time we had hoped to spend in quiet meditation on the meaning of...
The Great Christ Comet Revealing the True Star of Bethlehem by Colin R. Nicholl In the splendid book, The Great Christ Comet – Revealing the True Star of Bethlehem (Crossway, 2015) we are provided with a comprehensive look at one of the most beautiful and iconic...
Jesus: A Theography by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola I think it is only right to warn you not to read this book before going to bed – here’s why: I was very happy to receive my copy of Jesus A Theography (2012 — Thomas Nelson) via the mail. I had pre-ordered it...
Where Jesus Prayed Illuminating the Lord’s Prayer In The Holy Land by Danielle Shroyer “Being there matters.” By that I mean, there is a vast difference between reading or hearing about a person, place or thing and actually being on location to...
Jesus Asked: What He Wanted to Know by Conrad Gempf In the year 2000 at a conference in Grand Rapids, MI, Ray Vander Laan, chair of biblical cultural studies and a religion instructor at Holland Christian Schools in Holland, Michigan, said something like this,...
