Desiring the Kingdom by James K.A. Smith is a philosophical book that seeks to explore and explicate ideas connected to personhood, culture and worship.  Smith describes it best when he calls it a “theology of culture," connecting “worship and worldview” while also persuading its readers to formulate a “vision of what authentic, integral Christian learning looks like."  Smith obviously enjoys the pursuit, carrying his readers along on a refreshing thought journey that challenges us to first observe and then reform the ways in which we view and experience ourselves, the world around us, the church and virtually everything we know and love.

One Thousand Gifts

Most of us struggle to believe we are loved by God.  We can believe it for the person sitting next to us, we can even believe it for our enemies, but we struggle to believe that His love has our name on it—that He is personally, intimately and unswervingly committed to pouring love into our lives on a moment by moment basis.  This book helps change all that.