I mentioned in a previous review that I have been collecting and reading Wright’s books. Wright is the author of the well-known Shepherd Of The Hills although that was not necessarily his best seller. The Uncrowned King (My wife gave me an autographed copy for my birthday) is a short allegory of the Christian walk […]
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The Postmodern World
Erickson is best known as a theological writer. He has written quite a lot on postmodernism and I have appreciated what he has had to say. This latest book (2002) is a little different approach in that he uses current scenarios to present the dilemma of our culture and then comments on each one. I […]
Why God Enjoys Baseball
A 7/8/02 Christianity Today article Neff is reviewing Richard Mouw’s new book, He Shines In All That’s Fair: Culture and Common Grace. In reference to the book title from the old song Neff writes, “That hymn welcomes all the good things in the world—regardless of their apparent origin. And it stands in contrast to an […]
Why Not Just Be Christians?
This 1964 book is probably more relevant today than when Havner wrote it. Though he would be counted irrelevant today as would many of his contemporaries, he speaks as the voice of a gray hero to us. “A worried airplane passenger asked a calm fellow traveler, ‘Are you a Christian Scientist?’ ‘No,’ was the reply, […]
Arts, Entertainment & Christian Values
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 […]
Light in the Shadow of Jihad
Zacharias has been a helpful Christian author in the field of apologetics. His cultural awareness is very astute and his method of argumentation is very helpful. He is not a conservative, and perhaps not even a premillennialist (see p. 62), but, as a former Hindu, his insight into Islam and the Middle East is unique. […]
The Doctrine and Administration of the C...
Paul Jackson (d. 1969) was a pastor and president of Baptist Bible Seminary in Johnson City, NY. His book was and is used as a textbook for Administration classes in Bible Colleges and Seminaries. I reread this book recently and enjoyed his direct, Baptistic approach to local church polity and to individual character and responsibility. […]
Rethinking the Successful Church
This is another in the line of “why I have a big church but am not caught in the success syndrome” books. Rima says some insightful things about the “manic” obsession with church growth and recounts how he decided to redirect his own thinking. His answer, and the sub-title of the book, is: “Finding serenity […]
That Printer of Udell’s
If we all have peculiar interests, one of mine is collecting the 19 first edition books of Harold Bell Wright—the Ozark author of Shepherd of the Hills. The Shepherd was his second book, the first was That Printer, printed in 1903. It is a fictional, yet real life, story of a young man who comes […]
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.