Limping with my Lord: 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

For now this blog will rest in peace.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Book Reviews for my "Urban Internship"

Hello readers,

Below you will find twelve book reviews that I've read over the past year that pertain to my internship with The Highway Community Church that began last March 2011 and has now come full circle. I will slowly add to to this page as I complete the reviews and will consequently add hyperlinks (such a funny word, hyperlinks). Enjoy comrades!

Breaking Down Walls by Raleigh Washington & Glen Kehrein

Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life by Robert D. Lupton

With Justice For All by John Perkins

The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen

A Theology as Big as the City by Raymond J. Bakke

Encounter God in the City by Randy White

Theirs is the Kingdom by Robert Lupton

The Heart of Social Justice by Brenda Salter McNeil & Rick Richardson

A Credible Witness by Brenda Salter McNeil

Submerged: Inner Change’s story

Friendship at the Margins by Christohper Huertz and Christine Pohl

New Friars by Scott A. Bessenecker

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?