What I’m Reading

This page has all the books and articles that I’ve been reading about the Church, healthy churches, thriving churches and what’s happening in the Church in general.  

Cultural Sanctification

 A Little Bit About the Book Cultural Sanctification  by Stephen O. Presley, is a fairly short book only 169 pages minus notes and bibliography but I found it to be a very dense and thought provoking book. Presley’s premise is that in our postmodern world “everyone is secular, and the public square is filled with…

The Great Dechurching

A Little Bit About the Book The Great Dechurching by Jim Davis and Michael Graham (with Ryan P. Burge) is a jam packed 239 pages (if you don’t count the acknowledgements)! I purchased the book after listening to an interview with the authors, and quite frankly the interview did not give justice to the whole…

De-Sizing The Church

 A Little Bit About the Book De-Sizing the Church by Karl Vaters was a book I randomly came across when listening to a podcast about the future of the church. Karl Vaters happened to be on the podcast and as he spoke I found myself agreeing with him more often than I didn’t. They mentioned…