Category Archives: Recommendations and Reviews

For those who dream of seeing the gospel take new root in a postmodern, pagan America, Mark Driscoll has written a superb, exciting and impressively helpful book. A few days ago I read an interview with Covenant Life Church pastor Josh Harris, and he was asked what he had to say to young church planters.Continue reading “Review: Confessions of a Reformission Rev by Mark Driscoll”

My admiration for Touchstone Magazine grows daily, and among Touchstone’s writers, no one comes close to S.M. Hutchens for speaking to my own journey into, around, and sometimes out of evangelicalism.

It’s interesting to watch American Christians scramble for cover from the Da Vinci Code phenomenon. It’s not like these questions don’t have answers. Lots of good writers are cranking out books with the answers to Dan Brown’s Weekly World News version of Jesus. No, the problem isn’t the answers. The problem is the questions; inContinue reading “Review: Christian Theologies of Scripture edited by Justin Holcomb”

I’m not like you. I’ve got a mongrel library. I don’t like to be told what to read. One of my characteristic behaviors in high school was to be constantly reading….reading something that was not my assignment. I moderated this a bit in college- an English degree generally comes with reading lists that can’t beContinue reading “Pilgrim Tracks Through The Stacks”

UPDATE: Adrian Warnock comments on the “Phil and Monk” show. Worth reading. The entire transcript of Phil Johnson’s Shepherd’s Conference seminar on the Emerging Church can be found here. I’ve read the seminar twice, and here are my thoughts. I think Phil has done a great job. A solid “A-.” Considering Phil’s position and commitments,Continue reading “An Emerging Critique Worth Reading”

A few notes on this and that. C.J. Mahaney’s assistant, Carolyn McCulley, sent me two books by C.J., and I’m very grateful. One is a “combined” volume of C.J.’s book on The Cross Centered Life (which my church did for Lent two years ago) and Christ the Mediator. Now combined into one volume, called LivingContinue reading “Here. There. This. That.”

A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak at a Charismatic church in a neighboring community. (Take it to the comment threads, people.) I discovered that I was actually speaking at an “emerging” worship service designed for the younger adults in the community. As this was my first experience with an “emerging” service, IContinue reading “The Monk Emerges”

Andrew Jones- a.k.a. the Tall Skinny Kiwi– is a missionary spokesmen to and for the global emerging church. Andrew wouldn’t like me saying this, but I see him as an apostle for the movement and the absolutely must-hear voice to understand the emerging church. He is the type of emerging church leader our Truly ReformedContinue reading “Andrew Jones: An Emerging “Apostle” and His American Epistle”

UPDATE II: Gene Bridges addresses the issue of the universal church, and reprints Dagg on that subject. (J.L. Dagg was Southern Baptists’ first writing theologian.) UPDATE: Tom Ascol adds some more historical material that further demonstrates Baptists have never rejected Baptism on the basis on Arminianism. More from Ascol here: The Philadelphia Association accepted Free-willContinue reading “The End of the Debate: Gene Bridges on Baptists and Baptism”