Book Review: Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, by D. A. Carson and G. K. Beale
Review by Jim Hamilton | 9Marks Journal: Church & Culture | 03.02.2010This new commentary will establish its place among those reference works that every student and teacher of the Bible will constantly consult. There is simply nothing else like is.
Book(s) Review: Questioning Evangelism & Corner Conversations, by Randy Newman
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.02.2010Evangelism doesn’t have to be only “random,” but natural relationships can be cultivated as God-given means of witnessing.
Book Review: The Transforming Community, by Mark Lauterbach
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010If you’re not careful, Lauterbach’s book just might cause a paradigm shift in how you think about grace and the gospel, as well as how you think about the church.
Book Review: Promise Unfulfilled, by Rolland D. McCune
Review by Andy Naselli | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 03.02.2010Despite the disproportionate space given to them, the alleged weaknesses are relatively peripheral to McCune’s thesis, which he argues convincingly.
Book Review: Discipline with Care, by Steven McQuoid
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010Discipline with Care is a good book on church discipline that will strengthen churches by promoting their holy witness.
Book(s) Review: Who Runs the Church? and Perspectives on Church Government
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010Multiple-views books like this provide a perfect opportunity—an opportunity neither book fully makes good on—to set the record straight about positions that are not mutually exclusive.
Book Review: Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 03.02.2010Emergents, I plead with you, please read those aspects of the book carefully and with open hearts.
Book Review: The Market-Driven Church, by Udo Middleman
Review by Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010Skip it and go read something by David Wells.
Book Review: The Living Church: Convictions of a Life Long Pastor, by John Stott
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010I found myself deeply encouraged by the reflections of this life-long pastor, who has been such a clear gift to Christ’s church.
Book Review: Organic Church, by Neil Cole
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010You may find this book helpful if you are a church planter, particularly in urban environment, but you’ll need to buttress it with books that have a more solid biblical ecclesiology.
Book Review: They Like Jesus But Not the Church, by Dan Kimball
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010Kimball’s book provides good insight into how some non-Christians think, and readers will be challenged by his excellent diagnostic questions at the end of each chapter.
Book Review: Crazy Love, by Francis Chan
Review by Patrick Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 03.02.2010This book is a useful prod for anyone who treats Christianity as if it only means intellectually assenting to a set of facts, but not something that changes your life.
Book Review: The Irresistible Revolution, by Shane Claiborne
Review by Shane Walker | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010The book’s theology is an unbiblical and incoherent synthesis which might be described as popularized Christian anarchism for young, disaffected, middle-class Americans.
Book Review: I Sold My Soul On eBay, by Hemant Mehta
Review by Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: Cooperation | 03.02.2010Which brings me to my question: why would the church scramble to take advice from someone who does not share its faith?
Book Review: Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them, by Ed Stetzer
Review by Bobby Jamieson | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010I think that a less-than-biblical philosophy of ministry shines through at certain points, so read with discernment.
