Reviews Subversive Meals: An Analysis of the Lord’s Supper under Roman Domination during the First Century My first awareness of the Lord's Supper was attending a church event on a Sunday…Bret HammondSeptember 9, 2020
Reviews Trains, Jesus, and Murder: The Gospel according to Johnny Cash I’m not sure what I was expecting from this book. I think I was, in…Bret HammondSeptember 7, 2020
Reviews Age of Kings: Pursuing God’s Heart in a Social Media World I don’t read nearly enough devotional material. Too often devotional books either stretch the Scriptures…Bret HammondAugust 14, 2020
Reviews Dream Big by Bob Goff, a Review Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What you're Going to…Bret HammondJune 27, 2020
MinistryWriting Masks and Mourning: Following Jesus Through 2020 He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans,…Bret HammondJune 22, 2020
ReviewsWriting Gospel Allegiance, by Matthew W. Bates Could it be that we’ve limited our definition of “faith” to our hopes and feelings?…Bret HammondNovember 7, 2019
ReviewsWriting Review: Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Morality, by Richard Beck I found the opening sentence to Unclean, by Richard Beck, to be revolting. But that…Bret HammondOctober 13, 2019
MinistryWriting Every Minister Needs Some Moonshine Several years ago I was on the phone with an adman in Los Angeles, hashing…Bret HammondSeptember 26, 2019
ReviewsWriting Review: Becoming a Pastor Theologian A chasm has opened up between the academy and the church. In this situation, the…Bret HammondAugust 30, 2019
PreachingReviewsWriting Why You Should Preach Like TED (or at least give it a shot) Unless the rock you're living under still has dial-up Internet, you've probably seen a TED…Bret HammondJanuary 9, 2017