John March

Category: Book Reviews

  • Launch

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    This is a practical how-to guide for church planting from scratch.  The authors of this book moved to New York City to plant a church in 2001.  They didn’t know anybody in the city, and within two years of their first public service they were worshipping 500 people.  They tell their story and offer guidelines…

  • Geoffrion, One Step at a Time

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    This book contains Tim Geoffrion’s thoughts on our spiritual life as pilgrimmage.  He uses his experience walking a 500-mile pilgrimmage, called el Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James), as the guiding metaphor for describing the ups and downs of the Christian’s spiritual walk with God.   Each chapter begins with a journal entry written while…

  • Theology of the ECC

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    I’ve just wrapped up an orientation course called Theology of the Evangelical Covenant Church.  I have to take a bunch of courses with the ECC as a part of completing my ‘orientation’ to the ECC in order to be ordained by them.  I took a couple classes about 4 years ago that have since been…

  • Olson, The American Church in Crisis

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    I just finished reading Dave Olson’s book: Dave Olson leads the church planting movement at the Evangelical Covenant, of which I am a part.  This book is a persuasively written statistical analysis of the current state of the American church.  With clarity and insight, Olson shows that with each passing year a smaller percentage of…

  • Friedman, Generation to Generation

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    I just finished reading this book: It was fantastic. It is written primarily for pastors and rabbis, but it’s lessons are universally applicable for everyone in families or struggling to relate well to others in work and social organizations. He takes a Family Process view of counseling, and he argues that the most effective model…

  • Reading as a Discipline

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    This past week, I preached on training. My main point was that in order to become the people we are called and created to be we have to work at it. We have innate gifting, but that’s not enough. We have to train ourselves through spiritual disciplines and other practices. One discipline I’ve decided to…

  • Saving Our Jobs

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    A common Christian misconception that I’ve been fighting to overcome in my life has to do with the importance of ordinary, secular work. Over that past few years I’ve been working as a web developer, and before that I’ve worked as a computer engineer, IT helpdesk technician, and a 7th grade teacher. I wanted to…