Jesus Calling

Jesus Calling: How We Got It Wrong– Posing the Thesis

Benjamin Inman
Jun 2, 2025
Editor's Note: The views expressed by the author are not necessarily the views expressed by Ref21 or the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Meals cannot be rated like movies. Marriages cannot be audited like companies. Jesus Calling cannot be assessed as a Christian Devotional. The marketing has...

Jesus Calling: How They Got it Wrong– Insufficient Arguments

Benjamin Inman
May 23, 2025
In Part 1 , I narrated a process in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), which will continue at the 52nd General Assembly in June. The Committee on Discipleship Ministries (CDM) and Mission to the World (MTW) will report on Sarah Young’s book Jesus Calling . I thought my 2024 overture was...

Jesus Calling: How I Got It Wrong – A Surprising Narrative.

Benjamin Inman
May 16, 2025
Editor's Note: The views expressed by the author are not necessarily the views expressed by Ref21 or the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. After 25 years serving the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a rather scruffy, nobody pastor is watching what the PCA will do in June at the 52nd General...

We all ban (sort of) books

Todd Pruitt
Feb 26, 2014
Though the month escapes me, every year Barnes and Noble features famous banned books in their stores. The collection includes such titles as The Catcher in the Rye , Candide , Lolita , and even the Bible. Many of the books are now ubiquitous in libraries and bookstores. But there was a time when...

Did Jesus Really Say?

Todd Pruitt
Nov 11, 2013
I keep hoping that the fascination with Sarah Young's bestseller Jesus Calling will fade away. If you are not familiar with Jesus Calling , it is a book of 365 daily devotions that the author claims are messages from Jesus spoken directly to her. In fact the book is written in the first person from...