Book Review: Letters to the Church, by Francis Chan
Review by Juan Sanchez | 10.03.2019Chan offers some penetrating and incisive critiques of the modern church but offers a simplistic solution based on a selective and naïve hermeneutic.
Book Review: Planting Missional Churches, by Ed Stetzer and Daniel Im
Review by Nathan Knight | 09.26.2019Stetzer and Im have produced a useful book on planting, but you’ll need other books to fill in your understanding of what the church is and the responsibilities of pastoral ministry.
Book Review: Remaining Faithful in Ministry, by John MacArthur
Review by Bob Johnson | 09.19.2019If you are going to be faithful in ministry you have to preach the gospel clearly. If you preach the gospel clearly, you will be attacked. When you are attacked, you have to resist making ministry about yourself.
Book Review: A Company of Heroes, by Tim Keesee
Review by Simona Gorton | 09.12.2019What is the message of this book for you and your church? “Follow Christ. Lift up the cross!”
Book Review: J-Curve, by Paul Miller
Review by Mark Redfern | 09.05.2019This life is the wilderness before the promised land, where temptations to grumble abound. This present sojourn includes a cross being placed upon our shoulders before the crown that one day adorns our heads.
Book Review: Orthodox Radicals, by Matthew Bingham
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 08.29.2019It is logically easier to be baptistic without being congregational than to be congregational without being baptistic. Yet the two convictions fit together snugly. Maybe our earliest English ecclesiological ancestors were on to something.
Book Review: 7 Myths About Singleness, by Sam Allberry
Review by Rachel Ware | 08.15.2019In response to a culture that celebrates singleness for all the wrong reasons and a church that can sometimes undermine its value, 7 Myths of Singleness uncovers the surprising blessings and challenges of singleness lived for the glory of God.
Book Review: You Found Me, by Rick Richardson
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 08.08.2019You Found Me provides some healthy directives to churches which have grown stagnant in their evangelism. His book also left me with several important questions for Richardson that discerning readers need to consider.
Book Review: Grace Defined and Defended
Review by Mark Redfern | 08.01.2019In my own church, we recently spent the month of July preaching on the doctrines of grace. DeYoung’s book provided helpful historical context and pastoral application for the series. I gladly recommend this book to pastors and growing Christians alike.
Book Review: Parenting with Words of Grace, by William P. Smith
Review by Nick Dorsey | 07.25.2019Parenting with Words of Grace is an enormous help for believers fighting the war of words and tasked with shepherding young hearts.
Book Review: Unreconciled
Review by Jeremy Meeks | 07.18.2019Jeon’s short book has some helpful insights on community and reconciliation based on principles found in Philemon. It may provide thought provoking material for those who desire to see reconciliation take place in their own relationships or in their church in general.
Book Review: Evangelism as Exiles
Review by Caleb Greggsen | 07.11.2019Elliot Clark’s book is a gift to Christians tempted to feel discouraged by their increased sense of alienation in America. More than that, it is a clarion call to confidently declare the gospel in a world that desperately needs it.
Book Review: The Book Your Pastor Wishes You Would Read
By M. Redfern, T. Hoak | 06.27.2019Just as pastors will be held accountable for how faithfully they obeyed the command to oversee the flock, so church members will be held accountable for how faithfully they obeyed the command to make shepherding their church a groan-free experience for their pastor.
Book Review: To the Ends of the Earth, by Michael Haykin and C. Jeffrey Robinson Sr.
Review by Brady Bowman | 06.21.2019Read this book devotionally to stir up your own affections for missions and evangelism. Be reminded of the deep resources in the reformed tradition that can help you cultivate a heart to spread God’s glory among the nations.
Book Review: The Unsaved Christian
Review by John Power | 06.14.2019Matthew 7 reminds us of the missional urgency to reach those in our worship services who are comfortable with Christian lingo but have no understanding of the truth.
