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17 reviews
Paul E. Little

IVP Books, 2008

WONDERFUL resource!
This resouce helped my college-aged daughter evaluate and nail down her own beliefs.

The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things
Leighton Ford

IVP Books, 2008

Distractions were keeping Leighton Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with paying attention. In these pages, he invites you to journey with him. Using the rich tradition of praying the hours, Ford will walk with you, helping you pay attention to God's work in you and around you throughout each day and in different seasons of your life. If you're busy, distracted, ...

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity

4 reviews
Thomas C. Oden

IVP Books, 2008

A Scholar's Treasure Hunt
Thomas Oden's "How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind" was not the book I expected when I read the title. It was different, it was more, it was less, it was challenging, and it was and is important. Oden, recently retired after a distinguished professorial career, is perhaps one of the most renowned Church historians of our day. His four-volume opus on the history of pastoral care is a classic, ...

Basic Christianity (IVP Classics)

26 reviews
John R. W. Stott

IVP Books, 2007

pleasure to read
This book is excellent for a new beginner. The book itself is well-written and the points and evidence Stott uses are at times refreshing and other times reinforcing. As with all books I would read it with an open-mind because there are a few places where his interpretation may not necessarily be in sync with what you believe, but overall this book was a pleasure to read!

The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time

7 reviews
Tom Sine

IVP Books, 2008

There Will Be Blood
Ok, we always suspected that there were not easy answers, no one fix for the spiritual angst and restlessness that confronts us as we jostle through our culture listening to bits and pieces from people's stories. I assume most people, like myself, want to be invited into the conversation, though, and want to find a way to bring God along without the religious baggage. Jesus unencumbered. ...

The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine

67 reviews
Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath

IVP Books, 2007

MOST Readers Will Either Hate Or Love This Book
I enjoyed this book very much. It is well written, informative, and addresses many of the doubts raised lately by modern atheists regarding God, creation, et al. However, I do not believe that this book will change very many minds. You will get out of it what you bring to it. If you believe in God, this book will probably give you the responses you are seeking to answer the new rush of ...

Who Gets to Narrate the World?: Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals

2 reviews
Robert E. Webber

IVP Books, 2008

Douglas A. Nicely
This is Bob Webber's last book. While he was writing, he was aware that he was dying of pancreatic cancer. So, he wanted to leave us something that we could "chew on." He did. He is concerned that the Christian world view has been lost in recent generations. He explains how it happened and what are the two forces that are vying for the right to take the Christian world view's place. These ...

Evil And the Justice of God

19 reviews
N. T. Wright

IVP Books, 2006

Profound Insight
NT's book approaches the subject in a different way than anything I have read. His insights are myriad and profound. I appreciate his commitment to a thoroughly biblical understanding, tempered by a deep understanding of history and culture.

I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus

1 review
Don Everts, Doug Schaupp

IVP Books, 2008

How Not to be a Jerk for Jesus
For so many of us, sharing our faith is a frustrating exercise. We have the best of intentions, but end up being jerks for Jesus. We avoid non-Christians like the plague for a while. Then some one or some thing convinces us that we really ought to evangelize. So we gear up with self-righteous, fire and brimstone fear of hell for the next round. And we wonder why Christians have a ...

The Living Church: Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor

4 reviews
John R. W. Stott

IVP Books, 2007

the living church
For many years, John Stott has distinguished himself as a preeminent theologian and pastor. For 60 years, Stott has been rector at All Souls Church in England where he has initiated a dynamic ministry which now reaches internationally. Having authored more than 30 insightful and powerful books, Stott has recently released The Living Church: Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor. This promises to be ...

Breaking the Idols of Your Heart: How to Navigate the Temptations of Life

3 reviews
Dan B. Allender, Tremper, III Longman

IVP Books, 2007

Great for Bible study or small group
I highly recommend this book. It is broken up in 7 chapters. Each chapter has a fiction vignette style intro to ease you into the subject. The chapters then dive into scripture. Questions at the end of each chapter are very thought and discussion provoking. Not your common boilerplate factual questions. The chapters are not too long to read, maybe 15 pages a piece. We meet once a week for ...

Know Why You Believe

16 reviews
Paul E. Little

IVP Books, 2008

Great book on apologetics
This book is an excellent introduction to apologetics. The chapters are organised according to questions that unbelievers often ask. The chapters are easy to read and they present the facts in a concise, intelligent, and convincing way. This book helped me realise how little I know, for example about the historical evidence for Jesus, and I found myself wanting to memorize portions of the book. I ...

Too Busy Not to Pray: Slowing Down to Be With God

1 review
Bill Hybels, Lavonne Neff, ...

IVP Books, 2008

Annoying Interruption or Prevailing Power?
"To people like me, who are fond of racing down the fast lane, determined to make it on their own, prayer can seem a really annoying interruption," writes Bill Hybels, founder and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. But, he says, the profound reason why people are drawn to prayer is "because they know that God's power flows primarily to people who pray." Wow. Get this. Over one ...

Coming Home to Your True Self: Leaving the Emptiness of False Attractions

1 review
Albert Haase

IVP Books, 2008

Amazing Book
Albert Hasse has done an excellent job of describing the Christian journey back to who God created us to be. His chapters bring up signposts along the path home and reminds us that the path is not a straight line. Albert Hasse seems to make a point of walking with you along the path and not in front or behind. This book is such a good read that I read it all in almost one sitting. At the same ...

Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries

4 reviews
Gerald Lawson Sittser

IVP Books, 2007

A Passion for the History of Christian Spirituality
Jerry's ability to display his passion for the history of Christian Spirituality is second only to his desire for us to glean wisdom and practice in our spiritual lives through reflection on the saints. His representation, as a whole, of the history of Christian Spirituality is seamless. The written testimony of so many great saints and fathers of "the way" directs us towards the practical ...

The Heart of Female Same-Sex Attraction: A Comprehensive Counseling Resource

1 review
Janelle Hallman

IVP Books, 2008

Beautifully compiled, researched, & insightfully written book!
I just received my copy of this beautifully written account of a therapist who speaks candidly about the women whom she counsels with same sex attraction as a part of their lives. All I can say is "WOW"! I am so pleased with her knowledge of this issue and that she speaks from her heart and experience. This is an extremely valuable literary work for anyone dealing with female same sex attraction ...

Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels

24 reviews
Craig A. Evans

IVP Books, 2006

Fabricating Jesus
One of the best researched,well written,profound,enlightening, timely and relevant books that I have read on this subject. A must read for anyone that wishes to know the "truth".

The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith

4 reviews
J. P. Moreland, Tim Muehlhoff

IVP Books, 2007

A Solid Entry Level Apologetics Resource
This book is a well crafted intro into many of the most famous arguments for the existence of God, and other pressing problems that confound Christians in all ages. It's divided into Seven Section over 11 chapters and an afterthougt. What seperates this book from many other apologetics works is it's heavy reliance upon illustration. In dealing with ehtics it has a sidebar on the movie Munich ...

Simple Spirituality: Learning to See God in a Broken World

1 review
Christopher L. Heuertz

IVP Books, 2008

Compelled to act
Humility. Community. Simplicity. Submission. Brokenness. Five stones with which we can stand as David did, ready to battle our own giants. Humility to slay the giant of pride and arrogance. Community to slay the giant of individualism and independence. Simplicity to slay the giant of intemperance and excess. Submission to slay the giant of power and control. Brokenness to slay the giant ...

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation

3 reviews
Andrew Root

IVP Books, 2007

Do you have a heart for young people? Read this; wrestle with it; reread it;
Please, read this book! This fascinating work represents the cutting edge of thinking theologically about ministry with children and youth (and, really, ministry with all people). Andrew Root's penetrating assessment of popular conceptions of youth ministry speaks with a critical voice that, at the same time it exposes the underlying & unspoken assumptions that have been brought to YM, it also ...

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