Darrell Johnson
Biography
Darrell Johnson wrote The Glory of Preaching and the foreword to What Was Jesus Thinking?
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I come at the book of Job both as believer seeking to understand and preacher seeking to find a way to speak the text in our complex world. Drew Lewis is just the companion I need! Taking into consideration many of the approaches careful readers have taken over the years, he helps make sense of the whole, suggests how the drama is structured (brilliant insights!), introduces the cast of characters (so helpful!), and clarifies major themes. After reading Drew, I am now ready to make my own fresh approach as believer and preacher. Thank you, faithful servant of the Word!”
Evangelism & Missions
“My friends Ross and Jason have written a troubling but encouraging book. Troubling because they expose the reality of where we live. With their flare for engaging, lively, punchy rhetoric, they take us into the post-Christendom mind—and lived experience—of the majority of those living in Cascadia, what one pastor they interview has dubbed ‘the carcass of Christendom,’ a world devoid of any living memory of the gospel, suffering the social and relational consequences of the deprivation, but hungering for the love of the Jesus they are about to encounter through his disciples. Or, are supposed to encounter. But encouraging. Ross and Jason set out on ‘a treasure hunt’ where I live and serve, as ‘detectives of divinity,’ as Alan Roxburgh calls them, looking for ‘clues of the Triune God’ at work where supposedly such a God is not. And find them in eleven churches, each embodying eight elements of authentic mission with Jesus. You may not agree with every expression of mission they call ‘divine,’ but they challenge us, me, to look beyond the facades to the redeeming work of the risen Jesus. Read and be troubled by how many of us have bought into ‘Christendom metrics’ for forming and evaluating ministry, and be encouraged by the stunning signs of ‘kingdom metrics’ abounding on the West Coast of North America.”
Called to Be a People of the Gospel
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“My soul was deeply stirred as I read this. For two reasons. One, Earl’s penetrating insights into the good news Paul is opening up for us in his letter, articulated in Earl’s winsome, engaging style. And two, the way Earl takes us into the heart and mind of Paul. . . . Reading Earl’s exposition of the letter is really a reading of the soul of a human being gripped by Jesus Christ and his gospel.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“‘Over the two decades I have known Dan Heavenor, I have listened to him ‘talk out’ his understanding of the dynamics of actually enjoying knowing Jesus as a real person in real life. I have watched him then take others through the process of cultivating a ‘lived experience’ of Jesus of Nazareth through praying with the imagination. So, I am very glad Dan has finally written this book! Read the introduction, the first exercise, and you will find yourself engaged in a new level of interaction and intimacy with the living Jesus.”
Meditation and Communion with God
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“John Davis has written a much-needed book in this age of spiritual hunger and confusion. Working with insights from communication technology, recent discoveries of neuroscience and fresh understandings of the nature of the human person, Davis develops for us an engaging biblical and theological framework for authentic communion with the living God through meditating on the Scriptures. Focusing on the wonder of union with Christ, the good news of inaugurated eschatology and the unspeakable grace of sharing in the inner life of the Trinity, he opens up a fresh way to allow God to write the text into the hard-wire of our souls. What a gift!”
Missional God, Missional Church
Theology
“Ross Hastings--pastor, theologian, scientist, lover of people--has written what can only be called a 'game changer.' With Spirit-infused passion, insight, precision and grace, Ross has engaged all the major players in the missional conversation and has significantly moved the conversation forward. Massively forward! Working with the Easter evening story of the resurrected Jesus in John 20, Ross moves things forward by relentlessly and joyfully drawing us deeper and deeper into a thrilling vision of the inner life of the triune missional God. As a result we can face the challenges before us out of renewed intimacy and 'intoxication' with the Great Missionary. This is the book we will return to again and again!”
Christian Living
“Few people could have written this deeply redemptive book. In order to write such a book, one needs to be gifted in a number of interrelated ways, which is uniquely the case with Ken Shigematsu. First, he has a wonderful capacity to see what is going on in our souls beyond what we choose to divulge. Second, Ken is also an engaging storyteller—around Vancouver many of us refer to him as the “master storyteller.” Stories that touch the heart with liberating mercy. And third, Ken is not ashamed to say he feels shame. For someone of Asian descent that is not easy to do. But he has found deep grace to heal his shame; or, as I should say, Deep Grace has found him and has healed his shame. Read this book and you will find shame not only being covered but washed away in God’s love. And you will find yourself, your true self, in the love of God.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I cannot yet find the appropriate words and phrases to describe Mark Sayers's work. Three will have to do for now: Profound—as in plumbing the depths of what is happening in our world right now. Penetrating—as in piercing through and pulling back of the overwhelming complexity of our historical moment. And Prophetic—as in the biblical sense, exposing the ubiquity of idolatry, in society and in the church, yet holding out hope if we will choose to do what the living God is calling us to do right now. Because Mark's book is so theologically and biblically rich (especially as he works with the Exodus story) I will read it many times. Can I be so bold as to say that this is a must-read? For all who are in any kind of leadership role: politicians, teachers, pastors, parents, and grandparents. Thank God for the pillar Mark Sayers is to so many of us.”
Seven Days of Faith, 2d Edition
Christian Living
“As one of his friends and colleagues at Regent College, I have experienced Paul Stevens’s passion for ‘everyday spirituality’ firsthand. In this wise and invigorating book, Paul has not . . . simply pulled together what he has learned over the decades of discipleship; he has gone deeper, giving us an expansive, captivating understanding of what it means to follow Jesus all seven days of the week. And he does so in such a way that each day of the week really becomes ‘the Lord’s Day,’ and we taste the glorious goodness of the coming eighth day.”
Christian Living
“I cannot count the number of pages I have dog-eared—places where Jesus Christ broke through Ken’s words to speak to and redirect and heal my soul. This book is a profound gift to the church and to the world and may well become a spiritual classic.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This book is exactly what we in pastoral ministry have needed for a long time: 'strong medicine' to not only keep us from the burnout so many are facing in our time, but also, and primarily, to enable us to thrive in the service of Jesus Christ. Andrew Purves takes us into the heart of ministry, into the heart of the only ministry that actually 'works,' into the ministry of the risen Jesus, and teaches us how to participate in Jesus' vicarious humanity and, in union with him, to cooperate with Jesus' ongoing work in and for the world. As I read these pages, everything in me cries, 'Yes! This is the way to live and serve.'”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“As a pastor, Dick Wiedenheft has ached over how easily we the church get off track. We forget that we are first and foremost a missional people, for the simple reason that we belong to a missional God. What Dick has written comes out of serious biblical study, extensive theological inquiry, and, most importantly, working it all out in the pressures and challenges of pastoral ministry. I will be commending this book as widely as possible.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Andrew Purves, who has become a trusted mentor to many of us in Christian ministry, wants to save us from the deepest of all clergy malpractices--the failure to be fully engaged in the resurrected ministry of Jesus. Exercising all the gifts for which we have come to appreciate him, this pastoral theologian par excellence helps us understand--and feel--that it is all about Jesus. Really. Simple as that, mysterious as that. Purves relentlessly takes us back to square one: Jesus is alive. Really alive. And as risen and ascended Lord at work in the world, doing what only he can do. And he is inviting us, after the crucifixion of our ministries, into the joyful, hopeful resurrection of his ministry. Thank you, Andrew, for showing us the way.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Ross Hastings has written a truly profound book. That is because Ross Hastings is a truly profound human being. God shapes some people to be theologians, some to be scientists, some to be psychologists, some to be pastors. Once in a while God takes hold of a human being and shapes a person to be, all in one, a theologian-scientist-psychologist-pastor. Through sharing with us his own excruciating journey in grief, and through taking us deep into the human soul and deep into the soul of the triune God, Ross brings us to the final place where all grief is finally healed. After reading this book, I can more authentically embrace in my grief Jesus' 'Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.'”
Working Blessedly Forever, Volume 2
Work, Money & Leadership
“This volume of Working Blessedly Forever is nothing short of brilliant! I have had the privilege of walking with and working alongside Paul Stevens for a quarter of a century now. I have watched and listened as he has continued to work out a biblical theology of work, now so compellingly presented in this book. Would that I had understood this better when I began in pastoral ministry, for I would have done things much differently. I will now recommend this to every working pastor so that kingdom workers can be more effectively served and blessed by the church.”
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