Culture
Book Review: Announcing the Kingdom, by Arthur F. Glasser
Review by Robin Weekes | 9Marks Journal: Church & Culture | 03.03.2010This book’s message that the whole Bible is not just messianic but also missional is a valuable reminder of Jesus’ great promise to all nations.
Book Review: unChristian, by Dave Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
Review by Owen Strachan | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.03.2010Does Christianity have am “image problem”?
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: 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: 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.
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: 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: 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.
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: 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.
