Articles for tag: Book Review

Exploring Authentic Manhood: Find This Book and Read It! (Part 8)

By Eddie Lowen Man Alive: TransformingÂ Your Seven Primal NeedsÂ into a Powerful Spiritual Life Patrick Morley Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2012 Several people who narrowly escaped the collapse of the World Trade Center towers 11 years ago credited their safety to “a man wearing a red bandana.” The man approached several bewildered people and said, “Follow me. I can help you get out.” He carried one woman on his back down 17 flights of stairs. When the rubble was cleared from where Tower One once stood, the body of a young man wearing a red bandana was found among the bodies

October 12, 2012

An Exciting Family Devotion Resource: Find This Book and Read It! (Part 7)

By Matt Lockhart Discovering God”s Story Jim Eichenberger Cincinnati: Standard Publishing, 2010 Have you ever wrestled with wanting to do a family devotion but struggled with what to use or how to get started? If so, do I have a reading recommendation for you! Discovering God”s Story is a great book to help families engage with God”s Word. It”s a beautifully illustrated, full-color hardcover that provides a chronological overview of major Bible stories and themes in 100 short and visually rich vignettes. While a great reference book for any Bible student, I can tell you from firsthand experience that

October 9, 2012

An Aid to Cultural Context: Find This Book and Read It! (Part 5)

By Beth Guckenberger Â Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009 This book came across my path several months after I returned from a trip to Israel. I had been talking nonstop about the insights I had gained while there and was fascinated by the cultural context I hadn”t understood before my visit. I read Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus in two days, taking notes on my laptop, thinking of all the people I wanted to read it. The book outlines Jewish culture and historical context for the lay

October 9, 2012

Learning from Trials: Find This Book and Read It! (Part 4)

By Brenda Garrison Nine Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life: A Psychologist Probes the Mystery of Why Some Lives Really Work and Others Don”t Dr. Henry Cloud Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004 As a mom, I want my daughters to live the abundant lives Jesus promised us. One way I encourage them to do so is by giving them books that have spoken to me. One of our favorites is Nine Things You Simply Must Know to Succeed in Life and Love.Â In his book, Dr. Henry Cloud teaches nine principles that anyone can implement

October 8, 2012

Explicit, Not Assumed: Find This Book and Read It! (Part 2)

By David Faust The Explicit Gospel Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson Wheaton: Crossway, 2012 In the contemporary church”s effort to be cool and culturally relevant, have we diminished the message of the cross? Matt Chandler, who preaches for The Village Church in Dallas, Texas, suggests that for lots of American churchgoers, the gospel has been merely assumed, not made explicit. And what many assume about Christian faith is not the robust gospel that takes God and sin seriously and sees grace as the God-given solution. Instead, many hold to an anemic “moralistic therapeutic deism”””we try to be good, we

October 8, 2012

The Power of Uncertainty: Find This Book and Read It! (Part 1)

By Gayla Congdon In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day Mark Batterson Colorado Springs: Multnomah Books, 2006 The book I have read that has impacted me the most in the past few years was In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson. The title comes from a story found in 2 Samuel 23:20, 21. On a snowy day during the reign of King David, Benaiah chased a lion down a pit and killed it. The story is timely because we are living in days when fear is consuming us and, I

July 18, 2012

Mark A. Taylor

Apologetics & Worldview

Their Questions, Your Answers with These Two New Titles

David Faust’s Honest Questions, Honest Answers equips Christians to welcome honest doubts and respond thoughtfully to questions about Christian faith with practical, understandable answers.

January 18, 2012

Mark A. Taylor

Not Just Another Leadership Book

Nonprofit Leadership in a For-Profit World reminds Christian leaders that lasting leadership begins not with techniques and business-school skills, but with Scripture, dependence on God, spiritual depth, and submission to his will.

November 4, 2011

Two Books about Hell

LeRoy Lawson considers Rob Bell’s Love Wins alongside Brian Jones’s Hell Is Real, examining their contrasting views of Heaven, Hell, God’s nature, salvation, and the urgency of evangelism.

October 30, 2011

Teresa Welch

You Must Read This Beyond a Job Description

Teresa Welch reviews Eugene H. Peterson’s The Pastor: A Memoir, reflecting on Peterson’s vision of pastoral ministry as a vocation shaped by prayer, listening, Sabbath, community, and attention to God.

October 29, 2011

Brian Mavis

You Must Read This Looking Afresh at The Least

Brian Mavis reviews Same Kind of Different as Me, a moving true story of friendship that challenges prejudice, changes perspectives on homelessness, and demonstrates the unexpected relationships that can reshape our lives.

October 27, 2011

You Must Read This Challenging Prejudices

LeRoy Lawson reviews Miroslav Volf’s Allah: A Christian Response, examining Volf’s argument that Christians and Muslims worship the same God and his call for understanding, dialogue, and mutual respect.

October 26, 2011

Brad Dupray

You Must Read This Beyond Easy Legalism

Eric Metaxas's biography explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer's convictions, resistance to Nazi power, and difficult moral choices as the German theologian sought to remain faithful to God amid the Third Reich.

October 26, 2011

Arron Chambers

You Must Read This A More Meaningful Story

Arron Chambers reviews Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and reflects on how its challenge to live a more meaningful story inspired real-life changes in his church and his own life.

October 25, 2011

Becky Ahlberg

You Must Read This A Spiritual Retreat

Becky Ahlberg reflects on N.T. Wright's Simply Christian, a clear and accessible book that refreshed her spiritual life while providing practical material for introducing others to foundational Christian beliefs.

October 4, 2010

FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Two to Help Us Think About Prejudice

LeRoy Lawson reviews two books that explore sign language, global Christianity, and the power of prejudice to shape human assumptions before all the facts are in.

February 15, 2009

FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Wisdom from a Hayseed’s Hayseed

LeRoy Lawson reviews Wendell Berry’s The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays, reflecting on humility, community, ecology, politics, and the wisdom of starting small.

September 3, 2008

Mark A. Taylor

Our Online Review of a Best-seller

Jennifer Taylor reviews The Shack, weighing its literary weaknesses against the theological ideas that helped the book connect with readers far beyond the Christian fiction audience.

April 13, 2008

Dick Alexander