Book Review: The Gift of Church, by Jim Samra
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011Pastors, active church members, and church skeptics alike will be well served by this loving reminder of the centrality of the local church in the Christian life.
Book Review: The Intentional Church, by Randy Pope
Review by Ben Wright | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011As you read this book you’ll see that Randy Pope has accomplished tremendous work for the sake of the gospel, and his approach to ministry planning has borne abundant fruit.
Book Review: MissionShift, ed. by David Hesselgrave and Ed Stetzer
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011The great strength of this volume is that it serves as a fairly accessible introduction to a number of critical issues in contemporary evangelical missiology.
Book Review: Missiological Models in Ministry to Muslims, by Sam Schlorff
Review by Doug Coleman | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011This book is a valuable resource for those engaged in reaching Muslims with the gospel.
Book Review: The Pastor as Scholar and The Scholar as Pastor, by John Piper and D. A. Carson
Review by Fred Zaspel | 9Marks Journal: The Pastor and his Staff, Part 1 | 06.28.2011Here Piper and Carson similarly remind us that learning (scholarship) and ministry are likewise complementary—the one is necessary to the other.
Book Review: Loving the Church, by John Crotts
Review by Brian Croft | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011This book speaks a piercing word to pastors. It reminds us of the biblical standard to which God calls us.
Book Review: 40 Questions about Interpreting the Bible, by Rob Plummer
Review by Jason Meyer | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011This book is a sterling example of how to answer specific questions clearly and succinctly, which is something all who teach the Bible must learn to do well.
Book Review: Paul’s Understanding of the Church’s Mission, by Robert Plummer
Review by Kevin DeYoung | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011I hope Dr. Plummer will consider publishing a popular level edition of the material which puts the cookies a few shelves lower and hires a graphic design team not so tied to the 1970s.
Book Review: The Next Christians, by Gabe Lyons
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011As we’ll see, there is room for agreement and disagreement in the answers Lyons provides to these questions.
Book Review: The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love, by Jonathan Leeman
Review by Tim Chester | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.28.2011I was asked to review this book as a “friendly dissenter,” but I have struggled to dissent. So now I am worried. What is it that I am supposed to have objected to?
Book Review: The Gospel Commission, by Michael Horton
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Membership: Holding the Body Together | 04.03.2011This book is theologically rich, carefully critical, and it throbs with a missionary heartbeat. Reading it will both instruct and inspire you to go and make disciples of all nations.
Book Review: The God Who Is There, by D. A. Carson
Review by Nicholas G. Piotrowski | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 03.01.2011This is biblical theology that “understand[s] the life of the Church as well as the way life in the postmodern world works.” It joins only a few like it.
Book Review: Following Jesus, the Servant King, by Jonathan Lunde
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.18.2011This book is an illuminating exposition of much crucial biblical material that bears on discipleship.
Book Review: Almost Christian, by Kenda Dean
Review by Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.18.2011This book is worth your time as a penetrating indictment of quasi-Christianity and a source of some helpful advice about how to fight back.
Book Review: The Tangible Kingdom, by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 02.02.2011I celebrate the willingness to throw anything overboard that gets in the way of reaching others with the gospel, but I fear some of what’s getting tossed is actually precious cargo.
