Category: Book Review / Insight

2025 Summer Reading List: Mine

Summertime is upon us, and with it, that glorious season of summertime reading. While I love to read all year long, in the summer months I try to be a bit more intentional about what...

2025 Summer Reading List: Yours

It’s that time of year again, nerds: that collective moment when we push our glasses up on our nose, promise ourselves we will read the books we already own, and then – in a fit...

Top Ten Quotes: Surrender to Love

A friend and I have been working through David Benner’s Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality. If you’re a fan of Gentle and Lowly, it echoes with the theme of understanding God’s...

What Are You Reading?

It’s almost here, fellow nerds: summer book season, where we load up our Kindles or stuff our beach bags full of the latest, the greatest, or just those that are in the pile we need...

Top Ten Quotes: Building Spiritual Habits in the Home

When I first picked up Building Spiritual Habits in the Home: Small Steps You Can Take Today, I did so based on two assumptions: I’m happy to report that I was right on Assumption #1,...

Top Ten Quotes: The Practice of Godliness

I was first introduced to Jerry Bridges almost twenty years ago via his book The Discipline of Grace. That book remains my favorite of his, though I’ve gone on to read others like The Pursuit...

Top Ten Quotes: On Speaking Well

A speechwriter for Reagan and a consultant for The West Wing? Count me in. I’ve long been fascinated with Peggy Noonan, but on the recommendation of a friend I picked up On Speaking Well: How...

2024 Year in Review: Books

In the last post I told you that I love the final week of the year, because I’m a sucker for everyone’s lists. Especially book lists. While it was hard to narrow down my top...

Top Ten Quotes: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Long-time readers know my love for British pastor and author Andrew Wilson. His book God of All Things is one of my favorites. He just dropped an incredibly short book specific to the season. It’s...

Top Ten Quotes: Write Better

One of the more enjoyable books I read this year was Andrew Le Peau’s Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality. Writers: you need this book. People who don’t view yourself as...