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Christ and Culture Revisited 9 reviews
D. A. Carson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008
The Best I've Read on These Issues - A Must Read, but a Challenging Read
Oustanding, helpful, Biblical tour-de-force by Carson. He clearly shows the inadequacies of many 'Christian' approaches to cutlure (with particular focus on Niehbur) while he also attempts to lay out a broader understanding of the issue from a wholistic Biblical framework. He does not de-emphasize the tensions and struggles of faithful living in a fallen world and in particular contexts. It bogs ...
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The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way22 reviews
Eugene H. Peterson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007
DANGER: ISOLATING SPIRITUAL LIFE FROM ACTUAL LIVING
In THE JESUS WAY, Peterson alludes to the human tendency to separate our spiritual lives from our daily lives. Real danger lurks in this type of thinking! If I desire to be a disciple of Jesus, it doesn't compute to relegate my friendship with Him to one day of worship each week. For years I ignorantly did so, choosing to do as I pleased the other seven days of the week. By doing this, my life ...
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Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading31 reviews
Eugene H. Peterson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009
Not Knowing but Becoming
This book goes down easy, like a comfort food. I expect nothing less from Eugene Peterson, the translator of The Message, a wonderful modern English translation of the Bible. Here, he challenges why and how we read scripture while remaining gentle and encouraging about the matter, as a pastor should.
In the first part, Peterson challenges "my holy wants, my holy needs, and my holy wants" as ...
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Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament12 reviews
William Sanford LA Sor, David Allan Hubbard, ...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996
excellent commentary
This is an excellent partner to any study of the Old Testament. It is extremely informative in regards to historical context and theological themes of each book. I highly recommend it.
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Lament for a Son 31 reviews
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987
Right up there with A Grief Observed
I actually have a small library of grief books compiled since my 24 year old son died in January 2006. In the early days, I sensed that much of what I was reading would need to be re-read at various points in my journey and it has proven to be true. I could not take in or make sense of my feelings in relation to what I was reading until some time had passed. Prof. Wolterstorff's book has been ...
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Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure27 reviews
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1965
An excellent prescription!
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote an excellent book called `Spiritual Depression, Its Causes and Cures.' Someone took the trouble to copy in real time a series of his sermons on the subject in London about a half-century ago. I'm very glad he did because it is a great book that has some great things to say.
It is a strange comfort the epistles were expressly written to address spiritual ...
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This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers7 reviews
Lillian Daniel, Martin B. Copenhaver
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009
A Window into a World
A potential occupational hazard of ordained ministry is certainly loneliness (ironic in a setting filled with people), as highlighted by a recent Christian Century article on clergy depression. As such, this little gem of a book by Lillian Daniel and Martin Copenhaver is a bracing tonic, giving expression to what has been heretofore the secret life of pastors. Both authors write movingly of their ...
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Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers10 reviews
Eugene H. Peterson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008
TELL IT SLANT is about more than Jesus' use of language
TELL IT SLANT. Huh? The phrase is a not-quite-grammatical derivative of the clichéd "tell it straight." It isn't original to author Peterson; it's from a line of poetry by Emily Dickinson: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant." Peterson sees the idiom as descriptive of Jesus' mode of communication, especially as portrayed in 10 parables that are unique to the Gospel of Luke --- found between ...
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Backgrounds of Early Christianity14 reviews
Everett Ferguson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003
Aboslutely the best
This is THE book on NT backgrounds. Ferguson gives you a broad sweep of nearely everything you need to know when studying hte NT and an extensive bibliography of additional resources for picking up the rest. I read this book early on in my carreer and still refer to it almost weekly. In the more specialized material I now study, his work is the basis that allows me to understand it. In short, ...
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Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology 17 reviews
Daniel L. Migliore
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004
Faith Seeking Understanding
I am reading this book for a class and have enjoyed every moment of it. At times it has been hard to grasp all the conversations that have been going on about the various theological principles but the point that Migliore, the author, makes are almost life changing. The beauty in a better understanding of God, Creation, Life, Purpose, Freedom and so much more that this book has wrestled with is ...
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The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World22 reviews
David F. Wells
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008
Do you dare read this book?
In what has become David Wells' familiar and forthright style "The Courage to be Protestant" tackles head on major problems confronting Protestant churches in our post-modern world. His focus is on the evangelical church in particular. If you have read his previous books critiquing the modern church and where it is going, you will discover in this volume a powerful continuation. The evangelical ...
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Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America (The Gospel and Our Culture Series)12 reviews
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998
A sign of hope
Missional Church is a humble, yet firm, call by the authors for the church rethink itself. Perhaps rethinking is not exactly the best term to use. Once senses in the pages that the book more or less assumes that the church has always been what the authors suggest it should be, but the people of the church have forgotten who they are. So it is more that the church needs to remember itself than ...
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The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission3 reviews
Lesslie Newbigin
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995
The Open Secret: mission in a pluralist society
Is there still a place for mission in the late twentieth century? By what authority can we speak about God and the Christian message in our pluralist world? Newbigin brings his original and thoroughly biblical thoughts to these questions. He places missions in a Trinitarian context: Mission is the proclamation of the Kingdom of the Father, sharing in the life of Jesus, doing the work of the ...
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Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today12 reviews
John R. W. Stott
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994
One of the greats!
I think this book needs to be read by many Christians even if they do not preach. So many have settled for either false notions of what preaching is or thrown it out all together for mere "conversations". John Piper said that it is one of the best books he has read on preaching and I would agree. This book deeply impacted me. It goes through a sort of brief history of preaching, gives an ...
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Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity14 reviews
Eugene H. Peterson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1987
Pastoral Integrity
In Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, c. 1987), Eugene Peterson expresses his concern that America's pastors have slipped into a "company of shopkeepers" anxiously marketing their wares, cultivating steady customers, making sure the bottom line balance satisfies their accountants.
Lost in the busyness of shop ...
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Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith51 reviews
Marvin R. Wilson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989
Our Father Abraham
The book was delivered on time and having briefly scanned it I find it to be very informative and it makes me think. The only problem I have with its delivery it was placed in a box to big for it.
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God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics30 reviews
C. S. Lewis
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994
Is There A God in Heaven?
Prof Lewis lived in a time when the intelligentsia were daring to assert the idea that God perhaps did not exist. Now, religion is taught in our universities along the lines of " How and Why Did Mankind Feel the Need to Invent God?"
The question is still the same. If indeed we are a bundle of random cells, why does any of our rambling matter? What is the basis of declaring anything good or ...
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Paul Apostle of the Heart Set Free13 reviews
Frederick Fyvie Bruce
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000
No Better Biography On Paul
Fred Bruce was a conservative evangelical who had much influence in the British Isles. His work still stands as a testimony to his beliefs, in stark contrast to the majority of scholars in Britain who have capitulated to modernism, due to an abundance of the New Perspective on Paul gathering. As the influence of FF Bruce faded, the core doctrinal assumptions that he had cherished and articulated ...
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Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology12 reviews
Paul J. Achtemeier, Joel B. Green, ...
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001
Scholarly, Clear, Concise.
This is a great book and should be a standard text for all seminarians. It reads clearly and serves as a good introduction to the books, epistles and general theology of the New Testament. Another great aspect of the book is its wide margins... plenty of room to write notes and keep track of ideas while reading.
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Gospel of the Kingdom: Scriptural Studies in the Kingdom of God16 reviews
George Eldon Ladd
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1959
Kingdom Now and Not Yet
In recent years, the phrase "Already/Not Yet" as a description of our understanding of the kingdom of God in its present and future state has become very familiar. I took it for granted that this understanding had long been the dominant one in evangelicalism.
It was not until recently that I discovered the gridlock that existed between Dispensationalist and Covenant theologians in the 1950's ...
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