What is the most realistically positive book ever written? Is it something by Oprah? Perhaps Peale’s classic, The Power of Positive Thinking? Something else on the self-help list? If you agree with David Murray, your answer is that the most… Continue Reading
The cruel hands of depression tend to choke out every color except black and white. We desperately want help and so we fly from fix to fix—hoping that one thing will cure it all. When they fail we discard them… Continue Reading
Gospel Formed, by J.A. Medders, has become one of the most difficult books that I have reviewed. The difficulty, I am convinced, has more to do with my own journey and less to do with the book itself. But I… Continue Reading
Some have questioned the idea of preaching the gospel to yourself, because it has no biblical basis. Paul, they say, never preached the gospel to himself. Others (such as Jay Adams) have critiqued the discipline as having a “kind of… Continue Reading