Book Review: Is Jesus the Only Savior?, by James Edwards
Review by Will Kynes | 9Marks Journal: Marriage & Pastors' Wives | 03.03.2010The kind of person who would perhaps benefit most from this book is the skeptic who is sympathetic to the claims of the Jesus Seminar and other similar scholars.
Book Review: Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, by Christopher Wright
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.03.2010It’s not difficult to see why this book has stayed in print for so long.
Book Review: Who Can Save the Incredible Shrinking Church?, by Frank Page
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 03.03.2010Frank Page wants to do nothing less than save struggling, shrinking churches everywhere.
Book Review: The Multiplying Church, by Bob Roberts
Review by Lance Quinn | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 03.03.2010What he doesn’t do, however, is consider the Bible’s framework for understanding the purposes of the church and mandate for spreading the gospel.
Book Review: Churches that Make a Difference, by Ron Sider, Philip Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh
Review by Flynn Cratty | 9Marks Journal: Counseling in the Church | 03.03.2010Sider, Olson, and Unruh seem to think that the mission of the church is to do all it can to evangelize, meet people’s needs, and transform society.
Book Review: God’s New Community, by Graham Beynon
Review by Mike Gilbart-Smith | 03.03.2010For churches that already have an expositional ministry, this book will be richly encouraging because we all struggle to live out being the body of Christ.
Book Review: Window on the World, by Daphne Spraggett
Review by Tim Cantrell | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.03.2010I know of no other tool that compares with Window on the World for teaching kids and parents to pray together with God’s heart for the nations.
Book Review: The Book on Leadership, by John MacArthur
Review by Owen Strachan | 03.03.2010This book is a very good resource for pastors seeking a spiritually-focused book on leadership.
Book Review: Where Are All the Brothers?, by Eric Redmond
Review by Tony Carter | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.03.2010Once you have read it, give it away. Give it away because a biblical answer to one of these excuses may be the catalyst for calling a wayward sheep home.
Book(s) Review: The Radical Reformission & Confessions of a Reformission Rev, by Mark Driscoll
Review by Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 03.03.2010Taken together, the two books constitute a clarion call to the evangelical church in America, as it adapts to its marginalized status in post-modern culture.
Book Review: Vibrant Church, by Thom Rainer and Danny Akin
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.03.2010In short, Vibrant Church provides a very useful tool for strengthening, energizing, and equipping God’s people for the 21st century.
Book Review: Announcing the Kingdom, by Arthur F. Glasser
Review by Robin Weekes | 9Marks Journal: Church & Culture | 03.03.2010This book’s message that the whole Bible is not just messianic but also missional is a valuable reminder of Jesus’ great promise to all nations.
Book Review: unChristian, by Dave Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.03.2010Does Christianity have am “image problem”?
Book Review: The Heart of Evangelism, by Jerram Barrs
Review by Geoff Chang | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.03.2010This book is a challenge for Christians to thoughtfully, humbly, and graciously engage non-Christians as they seek to share the gospel with the
Book Review: Simple Church, by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger
Review by Graham Shearer | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.03.2010Simple Church is not a bad book. It just strikes me as an unnecessary book. It points church leaders in the wrong direction—statistical research.