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Draw the Circle by Mark Batterson

Draw the Circle is a supplemental devotional to The Circle Maker, but also can be used just as its own prayer devotional. Each day, author Mark Batterson gives a new emphasis and challenge focused on deepening and growing the reader’s prayer life. Supported by personal stories, the Bible, and outside illustrations, the main focus of […]

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Jesus Is _____ by Judah Smith

This book is exactly what the title says it will be about. It answers the question of who is Jesus by giving six different answers. Jesus is Your Friend, Grace, the Point, Happy, Here, and Alive. Each chapter makes several points that support why Jesus Is whatever that chapter is claiming. I really liked Jesus […]

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Deep and Wide

I just finished Deep and Wide by Andy Stanley, and left feeling happily challenged.  I thought the book was structured great; he broke it into three main sections all that could stand alone if you only wanted to read for certain information.  The idea of doing church for people who don’t go to church is […]

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The Circle Maker 1

Well I read a ton yesterday and this morning.  I started off yesterday with a solid 90 minutes of 2 Kings and 1 Chronicles, then I wrote my message for Sunday night.  Sometimes it’s a real struggle to get the words of a message out, not yesterday.  I had clear direction of where I wanted […]

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Onto the next challenge!

I heard someone quote a quote that stated that successful people read at least 4 books a month.  I don’t know about you, but I want to do what successful people do.  So since live dead is over (the book, not the living dead) I decided the next blog/life challenge I would undertake is reading […]

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