My list of must-read books for post-evangelicals is short. Newly added at the top of the list: Evangelicals and Tradition: The Formative Influence of the Early Church by Baylor University professor of patristics and Baptist minister D. H. Williams (Ph.d, University of Toronto.). Reviews of D.H. Williams’ work on the need for evangelicals and freeContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Evangelicals and Tradition by D.H. Williams”
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Recommendation and Review: What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever
Some of you need to buy this book: What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever. You need to buy it and start some trouble with it. Here’s the deal. Your pastor is caught up in whole church-growth, seeker-sensitive movement, and he’s reading church growth books and rehashing the content into most of his sermons.Continue reading “Recommendation and Review: What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever”
Recommendation and Review: A High View of Scripture? by Craig D. Allert
Craig Allert’s A High View of Scripture? sets out to convince the reader that most of what evangelicals have said about the subject of canonization amounts to anachronism, a purposeful ignorance of the role of the church and a false foundation for concepts about the role of the Bible in early Christianity. He succeeds completelyContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: A High View of Scripture? by Craig D. Allert”
Recommendation and Review: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra
Read an extended excerpt. Also, a story involving the author of the book suggests he may have problems not mentioned in the book. I read a lot of Catholic fiction. Baptists and other Christians haven’t done very well with the genre. To be honest, the same could be said of almost any kind of literature,Continue reading “Recommendation and Review: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra”
Recommendation and Review: For Men Only by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn
Several months ago, my wife asked me to read For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn. It’s a book about the inner lives of men, a subject about which I figured I knew really well and no chick could educate me. I didn’t read it. A few weeks ago, she purchased the companion volume, For MenContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: For Men Only by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn”
Review: Static by Ron Martoia
Books that translate the insights of N.T. Wright into the language of non-scholars are proliferating. Ron Martoia’s Static joins that conversation with one of the most readable books you’ll find on the intersection of recent New Testament backgrounds, the meaning of key Biblical concepts and the missional, evangelistic ministry of Christians in a world whereContinue reading “Review: Static by Ron Martoia”
Review: “Yup. Nope. Maybe.” and “Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat?” by Stephen James and David Thomas
After reading Stephen James’ and David Thomas’s twin book excursion into popular complementarianism, “Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat?” and “Yup. Nope. Maybe,” I’m ready to say that complementarians at least write more interesting, entertaining and readable books than egalitarians. Here are two books- don’t read just one- that explore the relationship between theContinue reading “Review: “Yup. Nope. Maybe.” and “Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat?” by Stephen James and David Thomas”
Review and Recommendation: Samson and the Pirate Monks by Nate Larkin
It’s a great book that needs a better title. Seriously good book. The title has gotta go. Nate Larkin’s Samson and the Pirate Monks is a five star book. As far as men’s books go, it may be one of the best books I’ve ever read, far surpassing most of what comes out of theContinue reading “Review and Recommendation: Samson and the Pirate Monks by Nate Larkin”
Recommendation: Mother Kirk by Douglas Wilson
I was going to attempt a response to Frank Turk’s statements on liturgy– it’s not even in the Psalms!- but instead I’ll just recommend the best book in print on how to do church: Douglas Wilson’s fantastic look at all things ecclesiastical, Mother Kirk. On a five-star scale this book gets eight. It’s simply unsurpassedContinue reading “Recommendation: Mother Kirk by Douglas Wilson”
Recommendation: “I’m OK- and You’re Not”
UPDATE: Here’s the whole and entire introduction to this book. In I’m Ok– And You’re Not, John Shore has a big idea. Jesus gave the Christian movement two major pieces of instruction: The Great Commission to reach all people with the Gospel and the Great Commandment to love one another. In Shore’s opinion, American evangelicalsContinue reading “Recommendation: “I’m OK- and You’re Not””
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