It has been over fifty years since H. Richard Niebuhr published his Christ & Culture. Carson revisits Niebuhr’s original categories of Christians within culture and pronounces them lacking for today’s situation. Niebuhr outlined six ways that Christians have looked at culture: Christ against culture; the Christ of culture; Christ above culture; Christ and culture in […]
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Transitioning: leading your church throu...
This book was written in 2000. Dan Southerland has been the pastor of Flamingo Road Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for over twenty years. He also has been a facilitator for Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven ministry of changing churches from traditional to contemporary. Warren writes the Forward and encourages all pastors to read the book […]
What is Faith?
Machen wrote this defense of the fundamental faith of Christians in 1925, two years after his more famous Christianity and Liberalism. If the old adage is true, “Read one older book for every two new books,” I would add “unless you read Machen.” Then, you ought to read one of his for each modern book […]
The Dominance of Evangelicalism
I have been searching for a couple books by David Bebbington and this one happened to arrive in the mail first. Bebbington is a Cambridge scholar who teaches in Scotland at the University of Stirling. In this book he traces the rise of early evangelicalism in the UK and America during the rise of Liberalism […]
The Next Chapter After the Last
Many of Tozers articles are being compiled into book form for present day readers. (This and others were done by Christian Publications, Camp Hill, PA). The unique article used in the title was Tozer’s defense of the resurrection of Christ. All other biographies end the last chapter with death, but the gospels have a chapter […]
The Spirituality of the Cross
In a world of information, when we learn good things from a number of sources, it is good to be pulled back to the reality of basic doctrinal beliefs. Such was my disappointing experience from reading this book. I cut my teeth on postmodernism ten years ago by reading Postmodern Times by Gene Veith and […]
Contagious Holiness
I was interested in this book because of the title. It is part of the “New Studies in Biblical Theology” series edited by D.A. Carson. Blomberg critically reviews the meals that Jesus ate “with publicans and sinners” and other meals. He explores the proposition made by many as to whether Jesus was a “party animal.” […]
The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscienc...
The sub-title is “Why are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World?” The title itself was enough to make me buy the book. The first chapter is packed full of interesting statistics that show that “Evangelical Christians” commit the same sins, to the same degree, as non-Christians. I was not as satisfied with […]
Christian Modesty
This book is made available through The Vision Forum, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas. They offer many books and booklets directed toward American history and its Christian heritage. In the Publisher’s Introduction, written by Douglas Phillips, these words conclude the thoughts: “With winsome gentleness, but uncompromising boldness, Jeff Pollard helps modern Christians to understand the […]
Wild at Heart
In spite of the popularity of this book, this has to be one of the most disappointing books I have read in a long time. What’s more, I think because of its popularity it is a dangerous book for biblically gullible people to read. It is one of those books to which our natural side […]