Book Review

Book Review: The Resurrection of Ministry

I feel bad when I have to give a book a bad review.  I don’t feel too bad if I perceive it to be harmful to the Christian community, but I do feel bad when the book is not necessarily harmful, it’s just painful.  I feel bad because I know that an author somewhere spent …

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Book Review: What Is The Gospel?

What is the Gospel? Greg Gilbert begins his little book by asserting the fact that many Christians have assumed the gospel and have even experienced the gospel, but that they cannot clearly articulate what the gospel is. Enter Gilbert’s book.  This little book is a fantastic primer on the gospel.  We need to constantly be …

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Book Review: Dug Down Deep

Is Dug Down Deep really that good? YES! It is that good, but maybe not in the way or for the reasons you might expect. Joshua Harris takes his title from Jesus’ parable of the two builders and essentially makes the argument that his faith has been bolstered by strengthening his theological convictions with a …

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Book Review: By Grace Alone

I ordered Sinclair Ferguson’s newest book, By Grace Alone because WTS had it on sale at a time when I was ordering some other books, so I included it in my purchase. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was the best purchase I made in that order. For book lovers, you will be …

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Book Review: Church is a Team Sport

I rarely pick up books that I don’t expect to enjoy, unless they are assigned. However, I received a free copy of Church is Team Sport by Jim Putman last week, and decided I would suffer through its pages. What a surprise to discover that I actually enjoyed the read and was completely convicted. Jim …

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Book Review: Words of Life

It is probably true that nothing in American Christianity during the Twentieth Century was as important as the battles over the Bible fought in nearly every denomination.  The results of those battles seem to be clear as well. Evangelical denominations that agreed on the authority, infallibility, and inerrancy of the word of God have continued …

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Book Review: The Oxford Guide To Library Research

Do you know anyone who seems to know something about everything?  I suspect that Thomas Mann is one of those guys.  After completing The Oxford Guide To Library Research, I am compelled to ask how a person can know so much about such a wide variety of subjects and why. I may one day ask …

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Book Review: Total Church

Total Church was a freebie for me that I picked up at Advance O9.  My first reaction to the book in the first fifty pages was less than stellar. It wasn’t that I found the book bad, so much as ordinary.  The first few chapters do not stick out as anything different or “radical” as …

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Book Review: Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word

If you are looking for something to spend part of your free $50 gift certificate from WTSBOOKS on, let me suggest a new book just published in May,  Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word, by Douglas A. Sweeney.  Sweeney is himself an expert on Edwards and on The New England Theology that was …

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