Amakiri Welekwe has just released a new book entitled Homo Novus: A Brief His-story of Tomorrow. I caught up with Amarkiri recently to discuss his new book. Enjoy! What provoked you to write this book? The simple answer is that the Holy Spirit prompted me. Here’s how the full story goes: A few years back, while reading Gates Notes—a blog maintained by Bill Gates, my eyes fell upon two intriguing titles: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” and “Homo Deus:... Read more

One of the sources who has been a great help to me as I continue to reconstruct the story of the first-century church is Mark Wilson. Wilson (D.Litt. et Phil., South Africa) is the founder and director of the Asia Minor Research Center in Antalya, Turkey and the Visiting Professor of Early Christianity at Regent University, Associate Professor Extraordinary of New Testament at Stellenbosch University, and Research Fellow in Biblical Archaeology at the University of South Africa. He also serves... Read more

Today we are featuring one of the podcasters who is part of The Deeper Journey Podcast Cross-Promotion Group, which is a group of Christian podcasters who are seeking to make an impact in the world. Question 1: Introduce yourself by your name and something that your friends find interesting about you. My name is Tonya Bruton and if I had to guess what my friends find interesting about me, I would say it is my quirky sense of humor. Question... Read more

Today we are featuring one of the podcasters who is part of The Deeper Journey Podcast Cross-Promotion Group, which is a group of Christian podcasters who are seeking to make an impact in the world. Question 1: Introduce yourself by your name and something that your friends find interesting about you. My name is Thomas Cross Hoopes. My friends and family say that “I do not know a stranger.” I love people and find myself connecting with people from all... Read more

Bill Johnson was one of the contributors of my free eBook Where’s God?, which is still available free of charge. Oddly, we’ve not yet met, but we’ve spoken many times. I suspect that someone day we will meet at a conference where we’re both invited to speak. One of Bill’s most popular books is called When Heaven Invades Earth. The book has been revised, and that’s the version I’m reviewing today (the publisher who I know well and respect graciously... Read more

Today we are featuring one of the podcasters who is part of The Deeper Journey Podcast Cross-Promotion Group, which is a group of Christian podcasters who are seeking to make an impact in the world. Question 1: Introduce yourself by your name and something that your friends find interesting about you. Greetings! My name is Seth Hensley. I’m a follower of Jesus, a husband, a twice-published author, a 15-year pianist, a Kindergarten teacher, and a podcaster in the realm of... Read more

Heaven, an Unexpected Journey: One Man’s Experience with Heaven, Angels, and the Afterlife is the story of how Jim Woodford died and spent 11 hours in heaven. When he came back, he was forever changed. The book is by Destiny Image, an superb publisher who will be releasing my upcoming book The Untold Story of the New Testament Church: Revised & Expanded. Heaven is well written and cosmetically appealing. (As an author myself, I notice great pagination. I like the... Read more

Paul Then and Now by Matthew Novenson is a new book published by Eerdmans. The book is yet another work that I’ll be citing in my upcoming mammoth work, The Untold Story of the New Testament: Revised & Expanded. Novenson’s book is more scholarly than popular. So it’s a bit dense for the average reader. That said, I found some interesting insights in it that I’ll be citing in my upcoming book. This description by the publisher says it all:... Read more

Creating the Canon is a new book published by InterVarsity Press. We live in a day where there are many attacks against the reliability and authority of the Bible, yet scholars have decimated the arguments against Scripture’s accuracy. This new book by Benjamin P. Laird covers the composition, the controversy, and the authority of the New Testament.  Here’s a great description by the publisher: Despite the profound influence of the New Testament, a variety of questions related to its background... Read more

Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New is a new work in the line of others that show the connections between the First Testament and the Second Testament in the holy Scriptures. Students of Scripture will find this book useful. I cannot improve on how the publisher describes this work: Use, misuse, appropriation, citation, allusion, inspiration—how do we characterize the manifold images, paraphrases, and quotations of the Jewish Scriptures that pervade the... Read more