Matt Heerema

Author: Matt Heerema

  • Review: Servanthood as Worship by Nate Palmer

    Ever since God saved me, I have desired to serve him with my whole life. For the first several years of my Christian walk I had assumed (and was probably taught) that the highest possible manifestation of that desire was to climb through the ranks of leadership in the church. The progression works something like…

  • “But God…” by Casey Lute

    Cruciform Press was kind enough to send me an advance copy of “But God…” by Casey Lute. It came in the mail today and I’m very excited to read it. A book title that contains my favorite two words in the whole Bible by a publisher that puts out consistently solid material, how bad can…

  • Unintended Consequences of Digital vs. Paper Books in Research

    I love ebooks. The functionality of full text search, copy/paste/highlight/etc, social sharing, auto-generated highlights indexes, the space savings, all work together to make it a functionally superior format for reading an individual book, but I noticed something important last night while doing some research for a paper.

  • The Next Christians: Living Out The Gospel – Restoration

    Gabe Lyons (author of Unchristian) sees a new breed of Christian on the rise: The Restorers. Fueled by a firm realization of the Gospel, that they were once dead, but have been brought back to life by the grace of God through Jesus Christ, helpless individuals who received healing, undeserving rebels who received mercy, they…

  • Tim Keller Interviewed by Jim Daily of Focus on the Family

    Really really enjoyed this episode of Focus on the Family. Keller talks about how we tend to idolize the family and replace The Gospel with “Family Values”. Love seeing the Gospel brought to a conservative and religious audience. We need it just as much as an unbeliever. Very helpful word here. Part 1 Part 2