Book Review: The New Testament Deacon: The Church’s Minister of Mercy, by Alexander Strauch
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Deacons | 04.30.2010If you want to understand the Bible’s teaching on deacons, this is a great place to start.
Book Review: Family Driven Faith, by Voddie Baucham
Review by Michael Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 04.02.2010Baucham has done a service to the church by calling us back from a wrong-headed trust in programs and professionals.
Book Review: Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome, by Kent and Barbara Hughes
Review by Ken Barbic | 9Marks Journal: Deacons | 04.02.2010This book attempts to bring refreshment to the soul of anyone that has been laboring in the desert of ministry drought—and it is exceptionally successful.
Book Review: God’s Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the Shaping of Congregations, by Jackson W. Carroll
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 03.31.2010How then should we measure excellence in ministers and churches? We should measure them entirely according to whether they are faithful to living by and proclaiming God’s Word.
Book Review: Why Men Do Not Go to Church, by Cortland Myers (1899)
Review by Ken Barbic | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology | 03.08.2010Today is the age of target marketing. Savvy advertisers constantly ask themselves, "How can we make our product more desirable to the various groups who are presently unaware of its benefits?"
It’s in this vein that Cortland Myers raises the question in his book by the title, "Why do men not go to church?" This is, he says, "one of the burning questions of the hour."
Book Review: Evaluating the Church Growth Movement: Five Views, ed. by Paul Engle and Gary McIntosh
Review by Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: The Church's Mission | 03.08.2010This, I think, is the key takeaway from this book: If you start with man, you won’t rise above man-made theories.
Book Review: Why Men Hate Going to Church, by David Murrow
Review by Jamie Dunlop | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology | 03.06.2010Churches have shifted toward a style that is comfortable for the stereotypical woman—at the expense of the stereotypical man.
Book Review: Manly Dominion: In a Passive-Purple-Four-Ball World, by Mark Chanski
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Biblical Theology | 03.06.2010This book is superb. It will train the godly men of today to raise the godly men of tomorrow.
Book Review: The Multi-Site Church Revolution
Review by John Hammett | 9Marks Journal: Elders (Part 1) | 03.06.2010Much of what this book contains can be transferred to a church planting model, thus accomplishing many of the same goals and relieving many of the troubling ecclesiological questions.
Book(s) Review: This Little Church . . . Went to Market & Stayed Home, by Gary Gilley
Review by Flynn Cratty | 9Marks Journal: Elders (Part 1) | 03.06.2010In the end, this emphasis on the Bible as the norm for life and doctrine is the most helpful thing in these two books.
Book Review: Shepherds After My Own Heart, by Timothy Laniak
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Elders (Part 2) | 03.05.2010This book is excellent, and should be read by every thoughtful and thoughtless pastor, so that they might better understand both the Word and their own role.
Book Review: Called to the Ministry, by Edmund Clowney
Review by Ken Barbic | 9Marks Journal: Elders (Part 2) | 03.05.2010Clowney applies larger issues of guidance and decision making to the realm of vocational Christian ministry, and he does so in a succinct but powerful manner.
Book Review: Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, by Graeme Goldsworthy
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010Read this book, and you’ll not only want to re-read it, you’ll want to re-read your Bible.
Book Review: Preaching Christ in All of Scripture, by Edmund Clowney
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010This book is worth having on your shelf for the primary reason that it will encourage you to preach Christ himself from the Old Testament.
Book Review: Preaching Parables to Postmoderns, by Brian Stiller
Review by Carl Trueman | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010In the end, I was perplexed by the book. There was plenty of thought-provoking material, but there was also a rather contrived view of postmodernism.
