9 Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever

Oren Lindsey - - 7 mins read
Church Growth Strategies Megachurches are a big deal in America today. I recently read an article in the Economist that included a quote about how 70% of Americans who go to church now attend a megachurch. When thinking about church health, the topic of this book, it is very important to understand megachurches. A simple definition found on Google tells us that a megachurch is “a church with an unusually large congregation”.
The only road to Christian maturity and godliness… passes through the practice of the Spiritual Disciplines. - Donald S. Whitney Introduction This book is about spiritual disciplines. Before any other thoughts on the book, we must establish what spiritual disciplines really are. According to Donald Whitney, they are “practices found in Scripture [the Bible] that promote spiritual growth among believers in the gospel of Jesus Christ.” Basically, spiritual disciplines are things Christians do to grow in their spiritual life.

Book Reviews

Oren Lindsey - - 1 min read
Books in the Attic While cleaning up in the attic, I found about 50 nonfiction books that look very interesting: My Plan My plan is to read them all throughout 2026, and write about them on this blog. You can find a list of all of them here. Most of them are Christian-focused, which may not be of interest to you, but I hope writing about them will be somewhat interesting.

First

Oren Lindsey - - 1 min read
Hello World! Hello everyone, my name is Oren Lindsey. This is my first post on my new blog. Hopefully this will be a place where I post often.