Recommended Books (Winter 2024)
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday with family nearby and gifts exchanged liberally. Many of us had wish lists filled with books, ready now to dive into a few good reads for the upcoming year. If you have not already set yourself up with something new to read, here are a few books we found particularly interesting over the past few months. Below, you will find reading suggestions from our group that come from a wide range...
HSF Conversations: “Tell Us About Your Sermon Prep” with Jeff Manning
In this episode of HSF Conversations, we ask Dr. Jeff Manning to tell us how he goes about preparing his sermons. This episode is the first installment of a series of posts where we will ask pastors to tell us about their sermon prep. In this conversation, we discuss text selection, outlines, commentaries, and other key components in sermon...
Recommended Books (Autumn 2023)
Beautiful autumn days beckon us to spend our afternoons and evenings out of doors. Amid all the hustle and bustle of daily life, especially if you have children in school or are in school yourself, it can be difficult to devote time to reading. But good books bring extra light into our lives and open new vistas of understanding about the world around us. So we recommend taking a book out to the porch swing or a favorite clearing in...
HSF Conversations: On Education
In this episode of HSF Conversations, senior contributor and associate editor, Phillip Morgan, speaks with Dr. Stephen Beck about the complexities Christians face when deciding what kind of education to provide for their children—public, private, or homeschool. As the chairman of the Education Department at Welch College, with years of experience as an administrator in private Christian education, and experience with the public school...
Recommended Books (Summer 2023)
The dog days of summer have been punishing this year in much of the United States. The extreme heat and, in the South, high humidity have strongly incentivized each of us to find shelter inside air-conditioned buildings. The increased time indoors before the crisp days of Autumn arrive provide us with some good opportunity for reading. Below, you will find reading suggestions from our group that come from a wide range of disciplines...
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