Book Review: The Gathered and Scattered Church, by Edward Hammett
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010Jesus never made social problems or social action His overriding concern. Hammett needs either to understand that, or at least to write it, more clearly.
Book Review: The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010This is indeed a day when novel ideas about Jesus are frequent and fashionable, but far from correcting those errors, this book only serves to make them even more acute.
Book Review: 40 Questions About Elders and Deacons, by Ben Merkle
Review by Will Kynes | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.03.2010Merkle reminds us that the Bible has a great deal to say about how we do church.
Book Review: The Peacemaker, by Ken Sande
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010Sande has given the church a helpful guide on how the church can better bear out her testimony to the life-changing power of her Savior.
Book Review: The Prayer of Jabez, by Bruce Wilkinson
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010The theology of prayer that Wilkinson teaches in the book is entirely unconnected to the Christian gospel.
Book Review: Practicing Hospitality, by Pat Ennis and Lisa Tatlock
Review by Adrienne Lawrence | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.03.2010This book will help those who are unfamiliar with the biblical idea of hospitality and provide a useful introduction to the concept.
Book Review: Finding the Will of God, by Bruce Waltke
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010Waltke’s book is useful, and it’s probably worth the price of purchase just for the section on divination and modern practices of “finding God’s will.”
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.
