Worship with Bob Kauflin and Ligon Duncan
By B. Kauflin, L. Duncan, M. Dever | 03.15.2002Despite the importance of worship, many churches today don’t know where to begin in defining its purpose and essential elements. Panelists J. Ligon Duncan, Bob Kauflin, and Carl Stam discuss the Bible’s teaching on God-pleasing worship, addressing everything from service times to music styles.
Book Review: Revolution, by George Barna
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2002If Barna had ever been a part of a healthy, vibrant local church, perhaps he wouldn’t find it so easy to declare the local church expendable.
Book Review: The Younger Evangelicals, by Robert Webber
Review by Greg Gilbert | 12.02.2001If younger evangelicals intend to build biblical—and not just postmodern—churches, they must center them on the Word of God.
Book Review: Rethinking the Successful Church, by Samuel Rima
Review by Greg Gilbert | 11.11.2001There are questions about the very methods of the church growth movement that Rima does not address.
Book Review: Doing Church as a Team, by Wayne Cordeiro
Review by Greg Gilbert | 10.05.2001Cordeiro’s emphasis on every-member ministry has led him to neglect and somewhat relegate the importance of the preaching of the Word.
Book Review: Led By the Spirit, by Jim Elliff
Review by Greg Gilbert | 10.05.2001Jim Elliff’s book is an extremely well-written and well-argued study of how the Holy Spirit guides the believer.
Book Review: Paul’s Idea of Community, by Robert Banks
Review by Greg Gilbert | 10.02.2001In the final analysis, Banks’s book is fatally flawed by its refusal to learn and teach from the entire Bible.
Book Review: The Connecting Church, by Randy Frazee
Review by Greg Gilbert | 08.05.2001I am happy to see that Frazee has identified a problem that exists in a large part of the Christian church today. My only contention is with the solution that Frazee proposes.
Book Review: The Christian’s Guide to Guidance, by Jay Adams
Review by Greg Gilbert | 06.05.2001Adams’s goal is to take the question of guidance, or of God’s will, and boil it down to a very simple proposition: God’s will is revealed to us solely through the Bible.
Jonathan Edwards and Evangelicalism Divided with Iain Murray
By I. H. Murray, M. Dever | 05.25.2001Iain Murray, co-founder of The Banner of Truth Trust and author of numerous books, talks about his recent biography of Jonathan Edwards and reflects on his controversial latest release Evangelicalism Divided.
Book Review: Experiencing God, by Henry Blackaby
Review by Greg Gilbert | 05.22.2001Much of Blackaby’s book, then, I think could be helpful to growing Christians.
Book Review: Boiling Point, by George Barna
Review by Greg Gilbert | 05.05.2001Barna’s book certainly has some interesting statistics, and he makes some fascinating predictions—but that’s about it.
Book Review: ChurchNEXT, by Eddie Gibbs
Review by Greg Gilbert | 04.05.2001Cultural studies cannot determine or shape the primary methods and structures of the church. Those are found in the pages of the Bible.
Book Review: Churchquake, by C. Peter Wagner
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.30.2001All in all, I was disappointed with Wagner’s book. There are no ideas here that you cannot find in other, better books.
Book Review: Your Best Life Now, by Joel Osteen
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Mission | 03.08.2001If Joel Osteen wants to be the Norman Vincent Peale of the twenty-first century, he has every right to give it a shot. But he should stop marketing his message as Christianity, because it is not.
