by Justin Bowers | Nov 6, 2013 | book reviews
A while back, Dan King shot me a brief e-mail asking if I’d be interested in reviewing some books for the Logos Bible Software folks. As a long-time user of Logos, I jumped at the opportunity! Here’s the lowdown on Logos: I haven’t found better Bible study tools. As...
by Justin Bowers | Oct 16, 2013 | authentic christianity, i am bibledude, READ
“So easily ‘spirituality’ becomes a cafeteria through which we walk making selections according to our taste an appetite… confinement turns into concentration, illusion transmutes into hope, death changes to resurrection.” – Eugene...
by Justin Bowers | Aug 21, 2013 | authentic christianity, i am bibledude, READ
“There is not an honest pastor in the land who is not deeply aware of the slum conditions that exist in the congregation and, therefore, the unending task of clearing out the garbage, finding space for breathing, getting adequate nourishment, and venturing into...
by Justin Bowers | Aug 7, 2013 | i am bibledude, READ
Most of us, at one time or another, feel we have little value to offer to the world around us. Whether this feeling has a pervasive death-grip on our lives or it is merely held in the fleeting moments of our pessimism, we know it is often a very real feeling. What...
by Justin Bowers | Jul 24, 2013 | authentic christianity, i am bibledude, READ
Each Sunday he shows up. He stumbles in, unkempt and a little noisy. Typically his daughters come with him. (They love our children’s ministry.) He sits in the metal folding chairs in our little church plant startup meeting at our local VFW Bingo Hall....