Book Review: Practicing Hospitality, by Pat Ennis and Lisa Tatlock
Review by Adrienne Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.03.2010This book will help those who are unfamiliar with the biblical idea of hospitality and provide a useful introduction to the concept.
Book Review: Churches that Make a Difference, by Ron Sider, Philip Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh
Review by Flynn Cratty | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 03.03.2010Sider, Olson, and Unruh seem to think that the mission of the church is to do all it can to evangelize, meet people’s needs, and transform society.
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: Announcing the Kingdom, by Arthur F. Glasser
Review by Robin Weekes | 9Marks Journal: Church & Culture | 03.03.2010This book’s message that the whole Bible is not just messianic but also missional is a valuable reminder of Jesus’ great promise to all nations.
Book Review: The Heart of Evangelism, by Jerram Barrs
Review by Geoff Chang | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.03.2010This book is a challenge for Christians to thoughtfully, humbly, and graciously engage non-Christians as they seek to share the gospel with the
Book Review: Let the Nations Be Glad!, by John Piper
Review by Robin Weekes | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.02.2010This remains both the best antidote to a man-centred approach to missions and the best challenge to the Reformed community to have a heart for global evangelism.
Book Review: Jesus the Evangelist, by Richard Phillips
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.02.2010Jesus the Evangelist is worth reading and recommending to others. Let me tell you why.
Book Review: An Introduction to the Science of Missions, by John Herman Bavinck
Review by Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.02.2010“Answers can be given solely on the basis of Scripture.” That is what sets this book apart from so many modern books on missions.
Book(s) Review: Questioning Evangelism & Corner Conversations, by Randy Newman
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.02.2010Evangelism doesn’t have to be only “random,” but natural relationships can be cultivated as God-given means of witnessing.
Book Review: They Like Jesus But Not the Church, by Dan Kimball
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010Kimball’s book provides good insight into how some non-Christians think, and readers will be challenged by his excellent diagnostic questions at the end of each chapter.
Book Review: Crazy Love, by Francis Chan
Review by Patrick Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010This book is a useful prod for anyone who treats Christianity as if it only means intellectually assenting to a set of facts, but not something that changes your life.
Book Review: The Irresistible Revolution, by Shane Claiborne
Review by Shane Walker | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010The book’s theology is an unbiblical and incoherent synthesis which might be described as popularized Christian anarchism for young, disaffected, middle-class Americans.
Book Review: I Sold My Soul On eBay, by Hemant Mehta
Review by Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 03.02.2010Which brings me to my question: why would the church scramble to take advice from someone who does not share its faith?
Book Review: Christians at the Cross, by N. T. Wright
Review by Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Marriage & Pastors' Wives | 03.02.2010We can be grateful for some of the themes sounded in this book. Still, the lack of urgency about our need to repent and believe in the gospel is a blind-spot in Wright.
Book Review: The Great Exchange, by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington
Review by Shane Walker | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington have invited the church to the lifelong effort of bringing our beliefs in line with the Bible’s teaching on the atonement in all its eternal glory.
