
Book Review: Worship Seeking Understanding, by John D. Witvliet
Review by Ben Woodward | 03.05.2010Witvliet’s study on worship is divided into five disciplines: biblical, theological, historical, musical, and pastoral.

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: 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: Decision Making and the Will of God, by Garry Friesen
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2010Read the book, but just make sure you’re not convinced of the stupidity of the regulative principle by that one-page section.

Book Review: Into the Future, by Elmer Towns and Warren Bird
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2010The danger of trying to survey and summarize so many different books on so many different topics is that you will have neither space nor focus to deal with any of the issues well.

Book Review: The Church of Irresistible Influence, by Robert Lewis
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2010So long as the reader keeps in mind that community service cannot be the goal of the Christian life, Lewis’s book makes some helpful points.

Book Review: Found: God’s Will, by John MacArthur
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2010Never assume that God wants you to follow a desire that is contrary to any principle laid out in His Word.

The Church on the Other Side, by Brian McLaren
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010I can appreciate Brian McLaren’s determination to think about postmodernism, but I do think he has surrendered far too much.

Book Review: Where Do We Go From Here?, by Ralph Neighbour
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010The structure of cell churches the author proposes seems to me to surrender far too much of what it means to be a church.

Book Review: Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race
Review by Tony Carter | 9Marks Journal: Race and Ethnicity | 03.03.2010This book is a fine and needed supplement to the many systematic and biblical theology books we already have on our shelves.

Book Review: Finding God’s Will, by J. I. Packer
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010J. I. Packer’s Finding God’s Will is a very useful and characteristically careful study of guidance in the New Testament.

Book Review: God’s Will and the Christian, by R. C. Sproul
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010This is a very useful book, especially for the theologically astute seeker of God’s will.

Book Review: On Being Black and Reformed, by Anthony Carter
Review by Reverend Rickey Armstrong | 9Marks Journal: Race and Ethnicity | 03.03.2010This an excellent introduction to the African-American experience from the perspective of redemptive history.

Book Review: In Search of Authentic Faith, by Steve Rabey
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010The book is, for the most part, an unquestioning, uncritical, and naively approving tribute to anything that could pass as “creative.”