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.
Book Review: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, by Rob Bell
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 03.03.2003Bell’s “ questions” are not as innocuous as they first sound. They are the means by which he permits one to disconnect and throw away the springs one doesn’t like.
Book Review: Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, by Jim Belcher
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 2) | 03.02.2003The reunion Belcher is hoping for here is just not going to happen.
Book Review: Brothers, We Are NOT Professionals, by John Piper
Review by Greg Gilbert | 11.05.2002This book will be a great encouragement, and a convicting exhortation, to every pastor in America.
Book Review: Evangelism: Doing Justice and Preaching Grace, by Harvie Conn
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 09.02.2002For a mature Christian who is thinking through these issues, Conn’s discussion will spark thoughts and will at least begin to chart a course in the right direction.
Book Review: Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches, ed. by Thomas White, Jason G. Deusing, and Malcomb B. Yarnell, III
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: Church Discipline (Part 1) | 09.02.2002Allen’s chapter aside, this book is a generally well-articulated statement of some important Baptist distinctives.
Book Review: When People Are Big and God is Small, by Ed Welch
Review by Greg Gilbert | 08.02.2002This book would be useful to any pastor who is willing to have numerous and extended conversations with his people.
Book Review: Hearing God, by Dallas Willard
Review by Greg Gilbert | 07.02.2002I think there are probably better, more biblically careful books that hold at least some portion of what Willard is arguing.
Book Review: What’s So Amazing About Grace?, by Philip Yancey
Review by Greg Gilbert | 06.02.2002In the end, Yancey’s conception of grace is inadequate at best.
Book Review: Worship by the Book, by D. A. Carson
Review by Greg Gilbert | 04.02.2002Worship by the Book will be a dog-eared and threadbare favorite of any pastor serious about planning his church’s corporate gatherings with deep theological and biblical roots.
Book Review: Revolution, by George Barna
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.05.2002If Barna had ever been a part of a healthy, vibrant local church, perhaps he wouldn’t find it so easy to declare the local church expendable.
Book Review: The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views, ed. by James Beilby and Paul Eddy
Review by Greg Gilbert | 9Marks Journal: The Gospel | 03.05.2002This book discusses the question: “ What image or understanding of the atonement does Scripture present as primary?”
Book Review: Guidance and the Voice of God, by Phillip Jensen and Tony Payne
Review by Greg Gilbert | 02.03.2002We know from the Bible what our destination is—union with Christ, and we know that God is working and moving to take us there.
Book Review: The Younger Evangelicals, by Robert Webber
Review by Greg Gilbert | 12.02.2001If younger evangelicals intend to build biblical—and not just postmodern—churches, they must center them on the Word of God.
