Book Review: The Hip Hop Church, by Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson
Review by Thabiti Anyabwile | 9Marks Journal: Living As a Church | 03.02.2010Read the book to be more conversant with the young people of your congregations. But I would not recommend it for basic ecclesiological strategy.
Book Review: Good Christians, Good Husbands?, by Doreen Moore
Review by Matt Schmucker | 9Marks Journal: Marriage & Pastors' Wives | 03.02.2010Does your home have the aroma of Christ? This book should help provoke that question.
Book Review: Perspectives on Christian Worship: Five Views, ed. by Matthew Pinson
Review by Bob Kauflin | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010How do we remain biblically rooted in our corporate worship of God without becoming culturally irrelevant?
Book Review: The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today, by Josh Moody
Review by Andy Davis | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010This book is a cogent and succinct summary of the central themes of the life of Jonathan Edwards, and Moody does his best work applying those themes to our present context.
Book Review: Christians at the Cross, by N. T. Wright
Review by Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Marriage & Pastors' Wives | 03.02.2010We can be grateful for some of the themes sounded in this book. Still, the lack of urgency about our need to repent and believe in the gospel is a blind-spot in Wright.
Book Review: The Great Exchange, by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington
Review by Shane Walker | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2010Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington have invited the church to the lifelong effort of bringing our beliefs in line with the Bible’s teaching on the atonement in all its eternal glory.
Book Review: Surprised by Hope, by N. T. Wright
Review by Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Marriage & Pastors' Wives | 03.02.2010Wright appeals to many because he is brilliant and fascinating, and some of what he says is helpful. But his failure to emphasize the centrality of the gospel is troubling.
Book Review: Gracism: The Art of Inclusion, by David A. Anderson
Review by Ken Jones | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.02.2010The term “gracism” sounds a great deal like affirmative action with a biblical twist. I think the tried and proven biblical standard and terms are sufficient for the task.
Book Review: Multicultural Ministry, by David A. Anderson
Review by Juan Sanchez | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.02.2010As a result of reading Multicultural Ministry, I will pray more, read more Scripture, and consider ways in which I can be a more deliberate reconciler.
Book Review: Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church, by Mark DeYmaz
Review by Ben Wright | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.02.2010This book is a worthwhile read. But absorb its biblical-theological argumentation with a discerning eye.
Book Review: The Peacemaking Pastor, by Alfred Poirier
Review by Bob Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Family & Parenting | 03.02.2010More than once while reading, I had to put the book down, confess my sin, and pick up the phone to get involved again in a situation I was conveniently ignoring.
Book Review: The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church, by Tony Dale and George Barna
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: A New Evangelical Liberalism | 03.01.2010Though The Rabbit and the Elephant is about the church, there is little explanation of what the church is beyond a series of interconnected relationships.
Book Review: Why Join a Small Church?, by John Benton
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: A New Evangelical Liberalism | 03.01.2010Maybe small churches do have a lot to offer. This is the heart of Benton’s message, and I think it is worth listening to.
Book Review: Walking Together: A Congregational Reflection on Biblical Church Discipline, by Wyman Richardson
Review by Jonathan Leeman | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.01.2010Can a pastor use this book for training his fellow church leaders, assuming that not all church leaders are not pastorally and theologically sensible? It gets an easy “yes.”
Book Review: Church Planting Movements, by David Garrison
Review by Ed Roberts | 07.25.2009Should you read this book? Probably not.
