Beautifully Rooted 2025 Conference
Walking with Discernment with speaker Michelle Lesley
What Is Sound Doctrine – and Why the Church Can’t Lose It
Sitting in my living room, I was visiting with a young couple after having a good meal and enjoying conversation centered on the last year or so of their life. Then the discussion drifted to the subject of the church. Having known this young couple and having ministered to them for years, they at this time were no longer under my shepherding or members of our church. When an opening to pursue the subject presented itself, I asked what church they were attending. It did not surprise me when they said none. They had been hopping from congregation to congregation, but nothing was meeting their criteria, if they had some. What did catch my attention was the assertion that they had matured as Christians after they stopped going to church. The wife was content with an occasional Bible study with a couple of friends; and the husband was just content, or maybe a better word would be apathic. Sound theological teaching was not, it seemed, necessary for their walk with God nor, apparently, was fellowship,
Standing Firm in Clarity
Volume 32, Issue 6, July 2026 I came to the Lord at around age seven and grew up attending a small country church, which placed substantial emphasis on Bible reading. The little sanctuary had an old-fashioned wooden statistics board on prominent display at the front. Every week the attendance for both Sunday school and the worship service was placed on the board, along with the previous week’s offering numbers. But unique to my church, or
The Therapeutic Gospel and the Undermining of Justification
Volume 32, Issue 5, June 2026 In the not too distant past virtually all students of the Scriptures would agree that the church exists for two basic purposes: evangelism and edification. We are called to share the gospel with lost souls (Romans 10:14) and are to disciple those who come to Christ (Matthew 28:19). Edification takes place as the local church gathers to be taught the Word and to minister to one another (Ephesians 4:11-16;
Shepherd's
Bookshelf
Join Pastor Gary as he reviews new books and classic books from a biblical perspective.
Book Reviews
Why Truth Matters: Francis Schaeffer on True Spirituality, Christ’s Lordship, and Inerrancy
Why Truth Matters reintroduces and summarizes the works of Francis Schaeffer to those unfamiliar. Very influential in evangelical circles in the 1950s through the 1980s, Schaefer has gone largely unnoticed
Stop in The Name of God, Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life
It would seem that young adults have exhausted themselves with their lifestyles which include overload on technology, social media, and slavery to smart phones. They are now looking for a
Pastoral Perspectives: Insights for Shepherds of God’s Flock
Les Lofquist is a seasoned minister having served as a church planter, senior pastor, part-time seminary professor, director of the IFCA International for 20 years, and now on staff as
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
For those wondering why they cannot go to their doctor anymore without filling out a mental health form, why our schools are constantly diagnosing our children, why trauma is spoken
The Pastor’s Soul: The Call and Care of an Undershepherd
The aim of this small book is to help pastors “before the waves crash; to give hope to pastors who are already swimming in the remains of the crash trying
The Prince: On The Art of Power
The Prince was written in 1513 and published in 1532 by Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat, thinker, and author. The book has been subject to many interpretations (pp. 222, 229)
Watch A Wonderful Day in the Lord
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All About
Christian Living
John Mark Comer Part V, John Mark Comer Takes on PSA (cont’d)
John Mark Comer Part IV, John Mark Comer Takes on PSA
John Mark Comer’s Theology
John Mark Comer: Practicing the Way
John Mark Comer, and the Comerism of Christianity
Non-Fiction In the world
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Written when Annie Dillard was only 27 years old, Pilgrim won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for General Nonfiction. Often compared to Thoreau’s Walden, Dillard
Shepherds For Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
Megan Basham, a journalist and reporter for the Daily Wire, has written a hard-hitting book that has landed like a bomb in the evangelical community.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta is a journalist with The Atlantic and contributor to numerous other publications such as The Wall Street Journal and the author of a
Reader, Come Home, The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Reader, Come Home is Maryanne Wolf’s sequel to her ground breaking Proust and the Squid written a decade earlier. She admits that during the seven
Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
At the time of writing this book, Maryanne Wolf was a professor of child development at Tufts University and the director of the Center for
The Good Life, Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
In 1938 the Harvard Study of Adult Development was initiated to try to determine what made people thrive. Beginning with 724 participants, it is still
Do More Better, A Practical Guide to Productivity
Do More Better is a short book with the goal of enabling its readers to live a “calm and orderly life, sure of your responsibilities
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Conferences
What Every Christian Must Know about the Future
Volume 30, Issue 3, March 2024 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/Teacher Southern View Chapel The Ligonier/Lifeway survey on the State of Theology 2022 did not even ask people’s views about the future or end times. Most people care little about the future because they are fixated on today. They live
Doctrine
What Every Christian Must Know about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Volume 30, Issue 2, February 2024 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/Teacher Southern View Chapel In the famous scene from the movie A Few Good Men,
What Every Christian Must Know about the Church
Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2024 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/teacher Southern View Chapel Many people face a great deal of confusion about the church.
What Every Christian Must Know about the Christian Life
Volume 29, Issue 10, December 2023 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/teacher Southern View Chapel In contemplating what God’s people need to know about the Christian
What Every Christian Must Know about the Bible
Volume 29, Issue 9, November 2023 by Gary E. Gilley, Pastor/teacher Southern View Chapel The American Bible Society just released the result of a startling
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