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My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion 9 reviews
Patton Dodd
Jossey-Bass, 2004
provocative and lively
With rare honesty and at times gut-twisting vulnerability, Patton Dodd presents a unique perspective on wrestling with one's faith. His experience touches on the nearly universal longing to believe, a longing wrought with the fear of placing one's faith in something that doesn't warrent such whole-hearted commitment. As he gives himself over to what he hopes will be a life-changing conversion, he ...
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The Defense Never Rests: A Lawyer's Quest for the Gospel7 reviews
Craig A. Parton
Concordia Publishing House, 2003
Read this book!
This is a refreshing book that explains the confessional Lutheran heritage. Parton draws the reader into the greater picture of Christendom and shows how the rest of Christianity urgently needs the courageous confession of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ that Lutheranism has always been built on. Vividly and with strong emotion, Parton describes to the reader how he and his family found their way ...
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Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity6 reviews
Kevin N. Giles
Zondervan, 2006
This book sheds light on the debate on women in ministry.
For anyone who cares to be orthodox in their thinking about the doctrine of the Trinity, this is a don't miss read. In this book Kevin Giles explains a number of important things: 1) that the distinctive mark of the Christian God is that God is Three in One; 2) that unless we understand that the Father, Son, and Spirit are equal in authority and power, we fail to carry forward the historic ...
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Mary: A Catholic-Evangelical Debate9 reviews
Dwight Longenecker, David Gustafson
Brazos Press, 2003
Excellent. Clears all the smoke.
When one deals with the subject of Mary, he is stepping into a sensitive arena especially with all that mutual misunderstandings between Catholics and Protestants for each others points. But before I state my opinion about the subject, allow me once again to state my denominational background so that I won’t be misunderstood or considered blindly biased for my denomination: I was born of an ...
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The Coming Evangelical Crisis: Current Challenges to Authority of Scripture and the Gospel6 reviews
John Armstrong
Moody Publishers, 1997
The Warning is Clear
Some of the conservative church's greatest ambassadors deliver a great message in this book. Some very godly and inteligent men deliver a warning to the church of the future. The books basic theme is that the church must be circumspect so that it does not drift away from biblical dependence. The present day church has come to depend on so many sources for their theological understanding when ...
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Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World46 reviews
John F. Jr. MacArthur
Crossway Books, 1993
MacArthur: Today's Charles Spurgeon
The brilliance of John MacArthur's book, "Ashamed of the Gospel" is that it was written long before Rick Warren and Bill Hybels were household names. MacArthur, like Spurgeon a century ago, is one of our generation's leading apologist for defending the faith and the intregrity of biblical doctrines.
The evangelical church that I knew (until about 1995) was a place where the gospel was upheld ...
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Great Giveaway, The: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, ...11 reviews
David E. Fitch
Baker Books, 2005
Heated but Thoughtful
This biting critique of the modern American church has basically lifted the veil off the capitalistic, consumeristic, numbers-oriented megachurches. David Fitch, Pastor of a church just 20 minutes from the headlining, 10,000 member Willow Creek Community Church, levels a pretty harsh attack on the big churches. While there are positive suggestions for alternative church models at the end of ...
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Seeking the Face of God9 reviews
Gary Thomas
Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994
A well written, thought provoking book
This book is one of my favorite devotional books. It brings balance into your theology, while provoking you to a greater relationship with God. His chapter on death is especially excellent. This author has gone to the early "fathers" of the church to use as a point of stimulation, but his applications are focused on the issues we face (or need to face) daily. I would encourage anyone to ...
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Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelicalism 1870-192510 reviews
George M. Marsden
Oxford University Press, 1981
Engrossing, Engaging and Well Researched
George Marsden's biography of Jonathan Edwards was so well written that I decided to read more of his stuff. This book on fundamentalism is a classic. Many scholars of Christian fundamentalism paint with too broad a brush, often lumping evangelicals into the fundy camp. Marsden avoids this mistake. He also acknowledges what many do not, that the fundamentalism of the post WWI era took on a much ...
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Empowered Evangelicals: Bringing Together the Best of the Evangelical and Charismatic Worlds7 reviews
Rich Nathan, Ken Wilson
Vine Books, 1995
Thoughtful, Biblical, Practical
Nathan and Wilson score on this collaboration! Great for pastors and church leaders looking for guidance in how to have a church that is both strong in Word and strong in Spirit. This book, along with Doug Banister's Word and Power Church, argues convincingly that the best of the Evangelical and Charismatic worlds can be mutually embraced. The authors write carefully and thoughtfully as they ...
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Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Baker Reference Library)4 reviews
Baker Pub Group, 1996
The best theology dictionary I've seen
This book was a gift from my pastor when I left for seminary. I must say that it has been great. I have compared it to others and there really is no comparison. This book is detailed, yet easy to read. It also encompasses various points of view and theological positions.
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The Evangelical Moment: The Promise of an American Religion5 reviews
Kenneth J. Collins
Baker Academic, 2005
An Evangelical Light
The Evangelical Moment is an informative account of a complex and often misunderstood movement known as American evangelicalism. Kenneth Collins traces the roots of evangelicalism beyond its major identifying movements in America to events in the first-century Church. He engages the reader in the evangelical conversations that have defined its theological and sociological positions in a way that ...
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The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective5 reviews
Russell D. Moore
Crossway Books, 2004
"The Already" And the "Not Yet" in Evangelical Theology
Over the last 60 years Evangelical theology has not been static. Russell D.Moore's "The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective" traces the development of a growing Evangelical consensus regarding the "already" and "not yet" perspective of the Kingdom of God as reflected in both the modified covenant theology of Hoekema's "The Bible and The Future" and Blaising and Bock's "Progressive ...
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Between Two Worlds: The Spiritual Journey of an Evangelical Catholic4 reviews
Mike Timmis, Harold Fickett
NavPress Publishing Group, 2008
Between Two Worlds is a story that needed to be told!
Between Two Worlds is a story that needed to be told. It is an invitation into the personal life of Mike Timmis, an evangelical Roman Catholic.
Mike's willingness to be vulnerable and share his greatest struggles and deepest loss will touch any who have suffered in similar ways and asked, "Why?" "Where is God in all of this hurt?" And, "Where do I belong?" Mike's story is not one of quick ...
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Creating God in the Image of Man?5 reviews
Norman L. Geisler
Bethany House Publishers, 1997
EXPOSES OPEN THEORIST INTERPRETIVE FLAWS/SKEW
This book warns of a dangerous aberration by the evangelical left (and so-called 'moderates')of fabricating the deity in man's image. The 'Open Theory' or 'Neo-Theism' deviates from the Historic,Classical,Orthodox interpretation of the Bible held as generally accepted from Old Test.,Apostolic,Church Fathers, Reformation eras to Contemporary Conservative Evangelical times and strays off into the ...
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Billy Graham: God's Ambassador5 reviews
Russ Busby
Time-Life Books, 1999
MORE THAN JUST A BOOK ABOUT A MAN
I loved this book. It was an inspiring and delightful time spent viewing the photos and reading about this man's life. I ended the book with the feeling it was more than just a book about Billy Graham - it was a book of history. Mr. Graham has touched the lives of countless people, but has also had the opportunity to meet with more heads of state and influential people than most public ...
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A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church5 reviews
Gerardo Marti
Indiana University Press, 2005
Phenomenal MUST Read for Emerging Christianity
This book is an artform. The work is an in-depth glimpse of the inner-workings of the emerging church that many philosophize and prophesize about, yet never have the opportunity to live within. The care and balance that Marti brought to the project as a pastor and scholar was obvious and reassuring. I am confident that Gerardo's work will provide a methodological basis that provides others with ...
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Real Hope in Chicago5 reviews
Wayne L. Gordon, Randall Frame
Zondervan, 1995
True Ministry
I read this book and wanted to cry. I asked the Lord where is this kind of true, loving, caring ministry today? Whatever the Lord has sent me to read, he will use. My husband and I are now in a one-year old ministry. I hope to use this book as a model of love and caring for the people of God. I have done much reading on what goes on in ministry for those who name the name of Jesus Christ ...
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Christianity With Power: Your Worldview and Your Experience of the Supernatural5 reviews
Charles H. Kraft
Vine Books, 1989
Challenges to expand your faith beyond cultural confines
This is an excellent book for any Christian seeking to experience the power of Jesus Christ. It prompts us to consider how the Western culture binds us from experiencing our faith in the radical way God intended, and challenges us to break out of cultural confines to find the power of Christ in our everyday faith.
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Subversive Spirituality5 reviews
Eugene H. Peterson, Jim Lyster, ...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997
What is spirituality?
In writing this book, `Subversive Spirituality', Eugene Peterson, professor of spiritual theology at Regent College, Vancouver, has gone back over his writings of the past twenty-five years and pulled together elements of writings in essays, biblical studies, poetry, pastoral readings, and interviews to examine many of the overlooked aspects of spirituality. Peterson writes: `This gathering of ...
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