Skip to main content

Posts

Featured

Book Reviews: Extended Easter Reading

I briefly reviewed our main book giveaways this Easter in the last post . we've also had some alternatives available and I wanted to briefly review those in this post. Your Verdict on the Empty Tomb Your verdict on the Empty Tomb is a look at the evidence for the resurrection written by a lawyer. In fact, it's written by a lawyer who was a lay reader at the church I grew up in! The truth is there is always scope for this kind of book, because people want to know if the Easter story is true. The book lays out the different kinds of evidence for the empty tomb and how that evidence should be assessed ending with a challenge to the reader to come up with a verdict on that evidence. I think this is one of the best giveaways for this kind of person for three reasons. The first is that it is relatively short (80 pages), which means you're not asking someone to commit a huge amount of time - they can always go into more detail later. Second, it is credible, in that it is written ...

Latest posts

Book Review: Easter Reading

There's Church Planting and then there's real Church Planting!

Book Review: A Greater Glory

Church Planting Isn't Just Preaching the Word

Reflections on Church Planting - 4 Years On

Reflections on Leaving Ministry in the Church of England - 5 Years On

Useful Things from 2024

A New Generation in the Church

"Leaders Training Leaders" Has Failed as a Church Growth Strategy

Why we still need people for church plants in hard places