Pastoring
Book Review: Perimeters of Light, by Elmer Towns and Ed Stetzer
Review by Flynn Cratty | 03.05.2010If one had to identify a simple thesis of the book, it would probably be the statement that “God has no preference regarding style, but highly regards motives and outcomes.”
Book Review: The Purpose Driven Church, by Rick Warren
Review by Paul Alexander | 03.05.2010We do not need more purpose driven churches. We need more gospel driven churches.
Book Review: Dangerous Intersections, by Jay Dennis and Jim Henry
Review by Ryan Townsend | 03.05.2010Pastors can pick up and read this book for encouragement and insight, staying mindful to hold everything up to the test of Scripture and the context of their local church.
Book Review: Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, by Kennon Callahan
Review by Thabiti Anyabwile | 03.05.2010A pastor would do well to invest his time in a more faithful work than this.
Book Review: Selling Out the Church, by Philip Kenneson and James Street
Review by Jamie Dunlop | 03.05.2010Kenneson and Street have composed an excellent critique of a discipline that has become almost second nature in many church circles, even despite its limited applicability.
Book Review: Reforming Pastoral Ministry, ed. by John Armstrong
Review by Greg Gilbert | 03.03.2010John Armstrong has compiled a book called Reforming Pastoral Ministry that is a well-placed and much-needed dart in the balloon of the church growth movement.
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: 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 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.
Book(s) Review: The Radical Reformission & Confessions of a Reformission Rev, by Mark Driscoll
Review by Mike McKinley | 9Marks Journal: The Emerging Church | 03.03.2010Taken together, the two books constitute a clarion call to the evangelical church in America, as it adapts to its marginalized status in post-modern culture.
Book Review: Simple Church, by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger
Review by Graham Shearer | 9Marks Journal: Young Pastors | 03.03.2010Simple Church is not a bad book. It just strikes me as an unnecessary book. It points church leaders in the wrong direction—statistical research.
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: Natural Church Development, by Christian Shwarz
Review by Byron Straughn | 9Marks Journal: Corporate Prayer | 03.02.2010Schwarz’s low view of Scripture is also seen in his desire to place natural observations and research along side of or verifying Scripture.
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: 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.
