Leadership
Book Review: Reviewing Leadership, by Robert Banks and Bernice M. Ledbetter
Review by Jeremy Yong | 03.05.2010Christians wanting a true evaluation of current approaches to leadership will unfortunately have to wait. This book isn’t it.
Book Review: Elders in Congregational Life, by Phil Newton
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 03.05.2010This book is devoted to working out the nuances of the relationship between congregation and elders.
Book(s) Review: The Emerging Church and Emerging Worship, by Dan Kimball
Review by Mike McKinley | 03.05.2010We should make an effort to make our worship clear and accessible, even to non-believers. But we have a primary responsibility to worship God according to his Word.
Book Review: Dangerous Intersections, by Jay Dennis and Jim Henry
Review by Ryan Townsend | 03.05.2010Pastors can pick up and read this book for encouragement and insight, staying mindful to hold everything up to the test of Scripture and the context of their local church.
Book Review: Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, by Kennon Callahan
Review by Thabiti Anyabwile | 03.05.2010A pastor would do well to invest his time in a more faithful work than this.
Book Review: Selling Out the Church, by Philip Kenneson and James Street
Review by Jamie Dunlop | 03.05.2010Kenneson and Street have composed an excellent critique of a discipline that has become almost second nature in many church circles, even despite its limited applicability.
Book Review: Stealing Sheep, by William Chadwick
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2010Chadwick’s book is a marvelous challenge to the widespread problem of Christian mobility.
Book Review: Evangelicalism Divided, by Iain Murray
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010Murray’s charge is that Christian leaders in the latter half of the 1900’sforgot that the most important question the church must ask is “What is a Christian?”
Book Review: Reforming Pastoral Ministry, ed. by John Armstrong
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010John Armstrong has compiled a book called Reforming Pastoral Ministry that is a well-placed and much-needed dart in the balloon of the church growth movement.
Book Review: 40 Questions About Elders and Deacons, by Ben Merkle
Review by Will Kynes | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.03.2010Merkle reminds us that the Bible has a great deal to say about how we do church.
Book Review: The Book on Leadership, by John MacArthur
Review by Owen Strachan | 03.03.2010This book is a very good resource for pastors seeking a spiritually-focused book on leadership.
Book Review: Where Are All the Brothers?, by Eric Redmond
Review by Tony Carter | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.03.2010Once you have read it, give it away. Give it away because a biblical answer to one of these excuses may be the catalyst for calling a wayward sheep home.
Book(s) Review: The Radical Reformission & Confessions of a Reformission Rev, by Mark Driscoll
Review by Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 03.03.2010Taken together, the two books constitute a clarion call to the evangelical church in America, as it adapts to its marginalized status in post-modern culture.
Book Review: Simple Church, by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger
Review by Graham Shearer | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.03.2010Simple Church is not a bad book. It just strikes me as an unnecessary book. It points church leaders in the wrong direction—statistical research.
Book Review: Advanced Strategic Planning, by Aubrey Malphurs
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.03.2010I’m not sure if Malphurs’s solution, his strategic planning program, is the cure-all for the church’s various maladies that he conceives it to be.
