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Emerging Worship

The sub-title is:  Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations.  This book is a defense of emerging worship and also a guide book for those wishing to start such a service.  Kimball does the typical and predictable things which all emerging church writers do.  He speaks kindly toward “seeker” people and very unkindly toward conservatives.  He […]

The Work God Blesses

Oswald Jeffery Smith was born November 8, 1889 in Ontario Canada.  He lived until January 25, 1986.  As a boy his mother sent him to Toronto to hear R.A. Torrey preach and he went forward and was saved.  After spending his early days in evangelism, he started a church in 1934 that came to be […]

The Silence of God

Many of us have been blessed by Sir Robert Anderson’s writings over the years.  Some months ago I reviewed his Types In Hebrews which is also part of the “Sir Robert Anderson Library Series” by Kregel.  I think The Silence Of God is a vital subject for today’s church.  Anderson (1841-1918) explained that it was […]

Exploring the Worship Spectrum: 6 views

This is one of the Zondervan “Counterpoints” books (2004).  The editors take the latest forms of evangelical worship and have six different proponents defend each one and the others give a critique.  The are:  Formal-liturgical worship by Paul Zahl, an Episcopal rector; Traditional hymn-based worship by Harold Best, retired music professor from Wheaton College; Contemporary […]

On Being a Pastor

I noticed this book on the store shelf because of the two authors.  Each year we take a study trip to the UK including Edinburgh, Scotland and attend the historic Charlotte Baptist Chapel founded by Robert and James Haldane.  Both of these men have pastored at that church, Begg being the assistant to Derek Prime.  […]

Promise Unfulfilled

 Dr. McCune, former President of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, is a former professor of mine from Central Baptist Seminary in Minneapolis.  Dr. McCune’s study of the evangelical movement over the last thirty to forty years is well known through classrooms, lectures and writings.  It is a great help and blessing to fundamentalism to have this […]

Deceived on Purpose

I have read numerous tracts, pamphlets, articles and books on Rick Warren and his Purpose Driven Phenomenon.  I would recommend this book for fairly easy but informative reading (200 pages, fully footnoted in paper cover).  Smith is a freelance writer with university degrees who works in social work on the west coast.  Most interesting to […]

This Little Church Stayed Home

This is the sequel to Gary Gilley’s first book, This Little Church Went To Market.  I’ve met Gary and have observed that his heart and life are consistent with the words of these books.  This second book does three things:  It reviews postmodernism and shows its continuing influence on our lives; it presents a scriptural […]

Can We Rock the Gospel?

The sub-title of the book is:  “rock music’s impact on worship and evangelism.”  That objective is overwhelmingly explored and answered in this book.  Blanchard, who wrote Pop Goes The Gospel in 1983, and Lucarini, who wrote Why I Left The Contemporary Christian Music Movement in 2002, combine to bring a stunningly up-to-date look at the […]

Biblical Separation

In my estimation, this book, first published in 1979, should be one of the classics for those who hold any interest in biblical separation. On the other hand, I have not seen Pickering or this book referenced in any articles on biblical/church separation I have read lately.  Many of the same issues confronted by Pickering […]