Audra Jennings

Thanks to everyone who participated in today's tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Frank Viola and the book: Rivise Us Again David C. Cook; New edition (April 1, 2011) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings, Senior Media Specialist, The B&B Media Group for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank Viola is a frequent conference speaker and author of numerous books on the deeper Christian life and church restoration, including Reimagining ...

Revise Us Again A call to revisit and return to God’s original script for living Every person follows a script for living, a life-guide that offers cues for our behavior and direction for our choices. As believers, the Word of God gives us a script for experiencing life as God intended. Yet our scripts are often distorted by our environment, our culture, and our religious traditions. As a result, all of us are in constant need of revising the scripts by which we live, and we want those lines of script that are incompatible with the teachings of Jesus revised and re-visioned to match the heart and mind of Christ. Revising is a process, and best-selling author Frank Viola’s latest book, Revise Us Again: Living from a Renewed Christian Script , encourages believers to take an honest look at their relationship with the Lord. This process begins by opening our hearts and minds to the possibility that the script we have been given in life is not perfect. We must further recognize that ou...

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Frank Viola and the book: Finding Organic Church David C. Cook; New edition (September 1, 2009) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank Viola is a renowned author, speaker, and church planter. He is a prominent advocate and leader of the missional church, house church, and organic church movements. His books include Pagan Christianity, Reimagining Church, and From Eternity to Here. Viola and his family reside in Gainesville, Florida. Visit the author...

In his new book, celebrated author Frank Viola offers a fresh and practical guide for planting a successful, thriving church Thousands of congregations today are struggling to survive. What if many of these churches’ problems were not a result of poor planning, but poor planting instead? In his new book, Finding Organic Church (David C Cook, September 2009), influential leader and author Frank Viola is calling the church back to its biblical and spiritual roots. Drawing from both scripture and real-world experience, his essential guide provides practical, effective tools for finding and planting organic churches that won’t just grow, but thrive. Driven by a passion for the body of Christ, Viola has written some of today’s most authoritative and celebrated works on the growing missional church, house church, and organic church movements. Now, in Finding Organic Church , the author of Pagan Christianity (co-written with George Barna), Reimagining Church , and From Eternity to Here sh...