Church Consultant Sally Hinzie is an avid reader and a practical thinker. She condenses The Trellis and the Vine into a quick, easy-to-read set of “Book Notes” to offer you the opportunity to determine if this is a topic that you’d like to study further.

I have tried to apply the discipline of simplicity in my personal life. We have a simple home, used cars, and “antique furniture” that was once new but has aged along with us. So when I found a book applying the principle of simplicity to the church, it certainly caught my interest. It was Deve Browing’s Deliberate Simplicity – How the Church Does More by Doing Less.

Sally Hinzie, UBA Church Consultant, is an avid reader and a practical thinker. She condenses selected books into a quick, easy to read set of “Book Notes” that offers you the opportunity to determine if this is a topic that you’d like to study further. This week's edition reviews Tony Maalouf's Arabs in the Shadow of Israel: The Unfolding of God’s Prophetic Plan for Ishmael’s Line.

What is persecution? How does it effect the global church, and what should we be learning from them? Sally Hinzie answers these questions and more as she outlines Dr. Carl A. Moeller & David W. Hegg’s book: The Privilege of Persecution (And Other Things the Global Church Knows That We Don’t).

Why are some people’s logic, values, and overall worldview so difficult to understand? Sally Hinzie, UBA Church Consultant, has condensed Roland Muller’s “Honor & Shame” into a quick, easy to read “Book Notes” to help us with that idea.