How Often Do You Have Meaningful Spiritual Conversations? We Must Be Intentional about Discussing Our Faith and Avoid Superficial Chatter After Jesus’s death and him overcoming death, he appears on the street headed to the city of Emmaus...
Speak Truth in Love Being both honest and kind is how we grow in our faith and mature through Jesus When Paul writes to the church in Ephesus, he tells them to speak what is true with love. This should be our guide in all that we say. While this...
For Many Christians, It’s Time To Grow Up One of the reasons we learn about God is so we can teach others In the letter written to the Hebrew people who follow Jesus, there’s a short phrase that’s easy to skip over. The author, who I suspect is...
Read the Bible in 2015 by Reading Only a Few Minutes a Day ABibleADay.com and Peter DeHaan Unveil Comprehensive Bible Reading Schedules for 2015 Dec. 16, 2014 – Grand Rapids, Mich. – Now in its tenth year, ABibleADay.com has released its Bible...
Heart Speaks to Heart: Three Gospel Meditations on Jesus By Henri Nouwen (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) Heart Speaks to Heart is three prayers to Jesus from Henri Nouwen. The prayers were written in the days preceding Easter, with an eye towards...
The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out By Brennan Manning (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) This book was not written for people who have their act together, but instead for the “bedraggled, beat-up, and...
A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 By Phillip Keller (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) The idea of a shepherd overseeing his flock is a powerful metaphor of the relationship between God and his people. Unfortunately, today’s world has largely lost touch...
Mere Christianity By C. S. Lewis (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) C. S. Lewis’s book, Mere Christianity, is based on a series of BBC radio broadcasts in the early 1940s. Initially, published as three separate volumes Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian...
How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth By Henry Cloud and John Townsend (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) This book is intended to help people grow and is applicable even when other common approaches have fallen short. The...
Hope for the Flowers By Trina Paulus (reviewed by Peter DeHaan) Hope for the Flowers is a delightful allegory offering messages on multiple levels and applicable to all age groups. It is a short book that can be read in about fifteen minutes and...
