Category: Book Reviews
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How To Get Free Books for Review in 3 Easy Steps
Depending on your definition of “easy,” this could be your ticket to drastically reducing your book expenses. It does take some work, but here’s what I did: #1 Start a blog and write on it consistently I’ve been blogging in one form or another for over 8 years now. I’ve been blogging about theological topics…
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From The Garden To The City
John Dyer is the director of web development at my alma mater Dallas Theological Seminary, as well as a graduate from there with his Th.M. He blogs regularly at Don’t Eat the Fruit. In the introduction to the book, Dyer lays out the single statement from one of his professors that seemed to be…
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The King Jesus Gospel
Scot McKnight is the Karl A. Olsson professor in religious studies at North Park University in Chicago. He blogs regularly at Jesus Creed. This is the first book of his I’ve read and I’d like to say I’m inclined to check out some of his other books. In our preaching class, one of the methods for…
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Business for the Common Good
As part of the Christian Worldview Integration Series, Kenman Wong and Scott Rae’s contribution focuses on a Christian view of the business world. As the authors themselves say: The idea that business can be a calling is becoming more widely appreciated and accepted. Yet the question of what exactly business is a calling to needs…
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Historical Theology: Authority and Inerrancy of Scripture
[This post is part of the Historical Theology series] Like I pointed out in the last post, each chapter in Allison’s Historical Theology follows the same pattern. Because of this, I’m going to refrain in future posts from giving you a play by play. You can read the book if that is what you’re interested…
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9 Books Up for Review
Freed from my seminary reading list restraints, I find myself so well trained that I just have to keep reading theological books. You may have noticed this based on the reviews that have been posted here in recent weeks. I’ve found that publishers have been very generous, and pretty much every book I’ve requested has…
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Redemption: Freed By Jesus From The Idols We Worship and The Wounds We Carry
Mike Wilkerson is a pastor at Mars Hill Church in Seattle. From the sources he uses, you can easily see that Mike is passionate about using gospel-based counseling in the local church. This book grew out of Mars Hill’s Redemption Group Ministry and the curriculum that they used in those groups. Overview I already mentioned…
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Introducing Book Riffs
A riff, or ostinato if you’re more pretentious, is a repeated musical phrase. Most rock musicians, myself included, think of a riff as something equivalent to a musical idea. From a musician’s standpoint then, and a guitarist at that, a riff is a catchy musical idea that draws people into your song. A well executed…
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Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith
Paperback: 255pgs Publisher: Bethany House (June 11, 2011) Amazon Westminster Bible school/Seminary level Prophetic explorations and priestly applications of a much neglected facet of evangelical theology [You’re reading this review of Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith because I requested a copy from Bethany House and they said yes!] Author Matthew Anderson is a…
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“We’re Just Friends” and Other Dating Lies
Paperback: 160pgs Publisher: New Growth Press (March 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935273809 Amazon Thanks to New Growth Press for providing this review copy! Author Chuck Milian is the senior pastor at Crossroads Fellowship in Raleigh, NC. Prior to that he also served as a singles pastor and executive pastor and was president of a singles ministry called SOLO,…