Book Review: Advanced Strategic Planning, by Aubrey Malphurs
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.03.2010I’m not sure if Malphurs’s solution, his strategic planning program, is the cure-all for the church’s various maladies that he conceives it to be.
Book Review: One Church, Many Congregations, by J. Timothy Ahlen and J. V. Thomas
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.03.2010Rather than criticize the book’s handling of Scripture and understanding of the church, let’s just get to the bottom line: should you read this book? No.
Book Review: Multi-Site Churches, by Scott McConnell
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.03.2010An appeal to pragmatic results in order to justify a practice undermines the authority and sufficiency of Scripture.
Book Review: Rethinking the Church, by James White
Review by Paul Alexander | 03.02.2010This kind of thinking thinking subtly leads us into the futility of dependence on synthetic technique and the idolatry of dependence on self, culture, and business theory.
Book Review: Houses That Change the World, by Wolfgang Simson
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.02.2010Like so many before and beside him, Simson believes we need a major reformulation of the church’s life and structure.
Book Review: The Emotionally Healthy Church, by Peter Scazzero
Review by Chris Ambridge | 03.02.2010It appears that for Scazzero, the evidences of being a true believer are different from those of Scripture.
Book Review: A New Kind of Christian, by Brian McLaren
Review by Mark Dever | 03.02.2010The church of Christ can survive both bad books and bad reviews. Perhaps in this case, it will have to survive both.
Book Review: Natural Church Development, by Christian Shwarz
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.02.2010Schwarz’s low view of Scripture is also seen in his desire to place natural observations and research along side of or verifying Scripture.
Book Review: Let the Nations Be Glad!, by John Piper
Review by Robin Weekes | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.02.2010This remains both the best antidote to a man-centred approach to missions and the best challenge to the Reformed community to have a heart for global evangelism.
Book Review: Kindled Fire, by Zack Eswine
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.02.2010Eswine has done us a great service by drawing together so much material on Spurgeon into one place.
Book Review: Jesus the Evangelist, by Richard Phillips
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.02.2010Jesus the Evangelist is worth reading and recommending to others. Let me tell you why.
Book Review: God in the Dark, by Os Guinness
Review by Patrick Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.02.2010Guinness has done the church a favor by taking a thoughtful and serious look at doubt and providing biblical answers to tough questions.
Book Review: Franchising McChurch, by Thomas White and John Yeats
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.02.2010White and Yeats offer an alternative and excellent course for our generation. Yet I wonder if we still have the ability to recognize healthy food from junk food.
Book Review: An Introduction to the Science of Missions, by John Herman Bavinck
Review by Andy Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.02.2010“Answers can be given solely on the basis of Scripture.” That is what sets this book apart from so many modern books on missions.
Book Review: After the Baby Boomers, Robert Wuthnow
Review by Matt McCullough | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.02.2010You can either shape your ministry to address the needs and desires of young adults, or you can shape your prophetic challenge to the specific weaknesses of your context.
