Jerry Solomon is the associate pastor at Dallas Bible Church. This is an attempt to justify the use of any methodology in the church by calling anything anyone does “art.” There is a large movement going on now to introduce even “secular” music, dance, drama, and other forms of human expression into the church. The […]
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Book Genre: Christian Living
Spiritual Leadership
This book by Sanders has been a standard textbook on leadership in Bible Colleges and Seminaries. Sanders always gives good, conservative, and sensible directions on leaderhip both personal and ministry related.
Christians in a .com World
I always enjoy reading Gene Veith (now a senior writer for World magazine). My first exposure to Postmodernism was through him and he always seems to relate current culture to the Christian viewpoint. This book is an information book on the history of the Information Age and the blessings and curses of computers. The evangelistic […]
Sacred Cows: Exploring Contemporary Idol...
This is a 1979 Zondervan book by the University of Aberdeen professor. His point is that almost anything in culture can become an idol, including family, country and ourselves. Walter is pointed in his critique of 20th century Christians uncritically accepting the mores around them. “The more important a social institution, the more likely it […]
Church: Why Bother?
This book confirmed my growing uneasiness with Yancey’s recent writings. Having enjoyed older books such as Disappointment With God, it now seems to be Yancey’s mission to be as accepting of all points of view as possible while strongly criticizing his conservative background. Speaking of Catholics and Russian Orthodox, “For them the sacrament of communion, […]
If You Will Ask
Chambers, well-known today for My Utmost For His Highest, first wrote this book in 1958. It reads very much like Torrey’s book in that it is more of a straight-forward approach to the biblical teaching on prayer with a strong emphasis on the necessity for holy living if one is to pray effectively. He writes, […]
How To Pray
R.A. Torrey was D.L. Moody’s associate in his great evangelistic campaigns. Torrey’s treatment of prayer is a progression through several biblical topics from hinderences, obedience, importance, to praying according to God’s will and praying with the Holy Spirit’s guidance. Torrey and Moody both had a holiness emphasis and there are various odd statements regarding the […]
The Prayer of Jabez
This small book on the two-verse prayer of Jabez in 2 Chron 4, has caused quite a stir in Christians circles. Without being too critical I would say that this is a light devotional look (certainly not an exposition) at an Old Testament prayer. Many good things are said about prayer, especially section 4 on […]
A Bend in the Road
I was given this book by my friend, Rob Hoffman, who found it to be a great help in a difficult time. I can see why it was. Jeremiah, Chancellor of Christian Heritage College in El Cajon, CA, recounts his own battle with cancer and how God graciously led him through that “bend in the […]
The True Vine
Another small and readable book in the Moody Classics series is this study on the Vine and Branches from John 15 by Andrew Murray. I would not shy away from Murray because of his early (1828-1917) holiness background. This study is rich in the kind of self-examination that believers today shy away from due to […]