The Gospel
Book Review: Let the Nations Be Glad!, by John Piper
Review by Robin Weekes | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.02.2010This remains both the best antidote to a man-centred approach to missions and the best challenge to the Reformed community to have a heart for global evangelism.
Book Review: God in the Dark, by Os Guinness
Review by Patrick Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Missions | 03.02.2010Guinness has done the church a favor by taking a thoughtful and serious look at doubt and providing biblical answers to tough questions.
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(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: 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 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 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.
