Book Reviews

Books Reviews

Here are a few of the books I’ve reviewed over the years:

Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World

David F. Wells

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Donald Miller

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

Mike Royko

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Michael Horton

Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire

Brian J. Walsh & Sylva C. Keesmaat

Confessions Of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons From an Emerging Missional Church

Mark Driscoll

The Connecting Church: Beyond Small Groups to Authentic Community

Randy Frazee

The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership

Steven B. Sample

The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing

C. J. Mahaney

Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough

Michael E. Wittmer

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading

Eugene H. Peterson

Faithfulness and Holiness: The Witness of J. C. Ryle

J. I. Packer

Family Driven Faith: Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With God

Voddie Bauchman, Jr.

Four Views on Hell

John F. Walvoord, Zacahry J. Hayes, Clark H. Pinnock with Stanley N. Gundry and William Crockett

The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form

Eugene L. Lowry

Inside Out

Larry Crabb

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Shane Claiborne

Living in God’s Two Kingdoms: A Biblical Vision for Christianity and Culture

David VanDrunen

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Bart D. Ehrman

The Multiplying Church: The New Math for Starting New Churches

Bob Roberts, Jr.

A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends On A Spiritual Journey

Brian D. McLaren

Overcoming Sin & Temptation

John Owen

Preaching Re-Imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Commnunities of Faith

Doug Pagitt

Real Hope in Chicago: The Incredible Story of How the Gospel is Transforming a Chicago Neighborhood

Wayne Gordon with Randall Frame

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Timothy Keller

Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work & Leisure

Leland Ryken

The Reformed Pastor

Richard Baxter

Revolution: Finding Vibrant Faith Beyond the Walls of the Sanctuary

George Barna

The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church

Michael Frost & Alan Hirsh

Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis

William J. Webb

Stop Dating the Church!: Fall in Love with the Family of God

Joshua Harris

Tender Warrior: God’s Intention for a Man

Stu Weber

Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gosepl and Commnunity

Tim Chester & Steve Timmis

Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?

Ethan Watters

A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age

Alan Jacobs

The Way of the Heart: Connecting with God Through Prayer, Wisdom and Silence

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)

Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck

You Can Change: God’s Transforming Power for Our Sinful Behavior and Negative Emotions

Tim Chester

Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists

Collin Hansen