Jonathan Leeman
Book Review: God’s Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Shaping of Congregations, by Jackson W. Carroll
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 03.31.2010How then should we measure excellence in ministers and churches? We should measure them entirely according to whether they are faithful to living by and proclaiming God’s Word.
Book Review: Shepherds After My Own Heart, by Timothy Laniak
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Elders (Part 2) | 03.05.2010This book is excellent, and should be read by every thoughtful and thoughtless pastor, so that they might better understand both the Word and their own role.
Book Review: Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit, by Erwin McManus
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 03.05.2010This book leaves so much unsaid, to state it as charitably as I can, that what the person would gain from your book itself is not Christianity or the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Book Review: Vibrant Church, by Thom Rainer and Danny Akin
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.03.2010In short, Vibrant Church provides a very useful tool for strengthening, energizing, and equipping God’s people for the 21st century.
Book Review: Franchising McChurch, by Thomas White and John Yeats
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.02.2010White and Yeats offer an alternative and excellent course for our generation. Yet I wonder if we still have the ability to recognize healthy food from junk food.
Book Review: The Transforming Community, by Mark Lauterbach
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010If you’re not careful, Lauterbach’s book just might cause a paradigm shift in how you think about grace and the gospel, as well as how you think about the church.
Book Review: Discipline with Care, by Steven McQuoid
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010Discipline with Care is a good book on church discipline that will strengthen churches by promoting their holy witness.
Book Review: Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 03.02.2010Emergents, I plead with you, please read those aspects of the book carefully and with open hearts.
Book Review: The Living Church: Convictions of a Life Long Pastor, by John Stott
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010I found myself deeply encouraged by the reflections of this life-long pastor, who has been such a clear gift to Christ’s church.
A Church Discipline Primer
By Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.01.2010A reluctance to practice church discipline may suggest that we believe ourselves to be wiser and more loving than God.
Book Review: Walking Together: A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline, by Wyman Richardson
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.01.2010Can a pastor use this book for training his fellow church leaders, assuming that not all church leaders are not pastorally and theologically sensible? It gets an easy “yes.”
