Book Review: Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, by Jim Belcher
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2003The reunion Belcher is hoping for here is just not going to happen.
The Local Church with C. J. Mahaney
By C. J. Mahaney, M. Dever | 02.14.2003Pull up a chair as Mark Dever sits down for a warm conversation with C.J. Mahaney, pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD. C.J.’s infectious tenderness as he recalls his conversion will encourage you to keep your own conversion experience near to your heart and in the front of your mind.
A Writer’s Retrospective with Iain Murray
By I. H. Murray, M. Dever | 11.18.2002The influential co-founder of The Banner of Truth Trust and long time Presbyterian pastor Iain Murray looks back over his shoulder at the past 50 years of his own ministry and writing.
Book Review: When People Are Big and God is Small, by Ed Welch
Review by Greg Gilbert | 08.02.2002This book would be useful to any pastor who is willing to have numerous and extended conversations with his people.
Book Review: Hearing God, by Dallas Willard
Review by Greg Gilbert | 07.02.2002I think there are probably better, more biblically careful books that hold at least some portion of what Willard is arguing.
Book Review: Worship by the Book, by D. A. Carson
Review by Greg Gilbert | 04.02.2002Worship by the Book will be a dog-eared and threadbare favorite of any pastor serious about planning his church’s corporate gatherings with deep theological and biblical roots.
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.
