Archive for March, 2007
John MacArthur. The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception. Nelson, 2007. 240 pp.
Right now, Truth is under attack, and much is at stake. Christians are caught in the crossfire of alternative Christian histories, emerging faulty texts, and a cultural push to eliminate absolute Truth altogether. As a result, many churches and Christians have been deceived. Worse still, they propagate the deception that poses itself as Truth! In The Truth War John MacArthur reclaims the unwavering certainty of God’s Truth and anchors Christians in the eternal, immovable promises that are found in His Word.
Author: Grace to You | Thomas Nelson Bio | Wikipedia | Theopedia | Grace Community Church | TMS | Pulpit Magazine
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- Phil Johnson (07/06) Review (halfway down)
- W. Scott Lamb, Christian Worldview Network (03/07) Review
- Michael Spencer, Internet Monk (04/07) Review
- Paul Shirley, Cup of Coffee Talk (04/07) Review
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Wayne McDill. 12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching. 2nd ed. B&H, 2006. 305 pp.
In this newly expanded second edition of 12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching, Dr. Wayne McDill draws on decades of experience as a preacher and homiletics professor to inspire other preachers to live up to their God-given potential.
Here are twelve proven ways to pack more content and effectiveness into every sermon, covering all of the bases from general preparation to the end result of increasing each listener’s faith. Recent seminary graduates and seasoned pastors alike will identify skills that need personal improvement, and McDill encourages them to strengthen such areas at their own pace and in whatever order they feel is best.
Every chapter in this new edition has been revised and updated. Also included are additional worksheet helps and sermon examples.
Author: WayneMcDill.net | SEBTS Profile
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Dennis E. Johnson. Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures. P&R, 2007. 464 pp.
Him We Proclaim advocates the Christ-centered, redemptive-historical, missiologically-communicated, grace-grounded method of Bible interpretation that the apostles learned from Jesus and practiced in their Gospel proclamation. Moving beyond theory, it shows how apostolic preaching opens up various biblical texts: history, law, wisdom, psalm, prophecy, parable, doctrine, exhortation, and apocalyptic vision.
Dennis Johnson has written a magnificent book that magnifies Christ in all of Scripture. Every preacher and teacher of the Scriptures should read this gem of the book. Johnson convincingly explains and defends the thesis that Christ should be proclaimed from all of Scripture. But he also illustrates with specific examples what it looks like to proclaim Christ in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. This book is exegetically faithful, theologically profound, and practically helpful. I wish I had read a book like this when I started my theological education thirty years ago. —Thomas R. Schreiner
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Professors
- Richard B. Gaffin, Westminister Bookstore Reviews (03/07) Review
- Thomas R. Schreiner, P&R (03/07) Review
Pastors/Church Leaders
- Aaron Menikoff, 9Marks (04/07) Review
Laymen
- Justin Taylor, Between Two Worlds (04/07) Review
- Colin Adams, Unashamed Workman (ND) Review
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R. Stanton Norman, ed. The Mission of Today’s Church: Baptist Leaders Look at Modern Faith Issues. B&H, 2007. 210 pp.
The Mission of Today’s Church is a compelling collection of twelve essays from current Baptist leaders addressing three major questions: (1) What does it mean to be a Christian today on individual, group, and societal levels? (2) How can Southern Baptists best work together? and (3) What is next for the Southern Baptist denomination? Those addressing these key topics in-depth include Stan Norman (“Together We Grow: Congregational Polity as a Form of Corporate Sanctification”), Ed Stetzer (“The Missional Nature of the Church”), and Daniel Akin (“Ten Mandates for Southern Baptists”). Among the many other contributors are Chad Brand, Charles Kelley, and Jim Richards.
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Last updated 03/27/07
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Edward Gilbreath. Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical’s Inside View of White Christianity. IVP, 2006. 207 pp.
What is the state of racial reconciliation in evangelical churches today? Are we truly united?
In Reconciliation Blues journalist Edward Gilbreath gives an insightful, honest picture of both the history and the present state of racial reconciliation in evangelical churches. He looks at a wide range of figures, such as Howard O. Jones, Tom Skinner, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson and John Perkins.
Charting progress as well as setbacks, his words offer encouragement for black evangelicals feeling alone, clarity for white evangelicals who want to understand more deeply, and fresh vision for all who want to move forward toward Christ’s prayer “that all of them may be one.”
Author: IVP Bio | Bio | EdGilbreath.com | Reconciliation Blog
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Excerpts: TOC | Prologue | Chapter 1
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Professors
- Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed (03/07) Review
Pastors/Church Leaders
- Mark Dever at T4G Blog (03/07) Review
Laymen/Unknown
- Marshall Benbow at Joy in the Margins (01/07) Review
- Tim Challies at Challies.com (06/07) Review
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Robert E. Webber, ed. Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives. Zondervan, 2007. 201 pp.
A cross-section of five frontline leaders in the controversial emerging church movement sheds informative light on their beliefs and basic message to help us understand whether it’s all about new methods or a new message or both.
What are the beliefs of the new movement known as the emerging church? In thought-provoking debate, prominent emerging leaders John Burke, Mark Driscoll, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, and Karen Ward discuss their sometimes controversial views under the editorship of author and educator Robert Webber. Hear what they say about their views of Scripture, Christ, the atonement, other world religions, and other important doctrines, so you can come to your own conclusions about the emerging church.
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Excerpts: TOC and Excerpts from Chapters 1–5 | Browse in Google Books
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- Andrew Jones (02/07) Review
- Trevin Wax, Kingdom People (02/07) Review
- Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed (02/07) Review
- Chris Leonardo, Minutia (02/07) Review
- Bob Franquiz, BobFranquiz.com (03/07) Review
- Brandon Rogers, Longer Needle or Smaller Camel (03/07) Review: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
- Michael Spencer, InternetMonk (04/07) Review
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Greg Heisler. Spirit-Led Preaching: The Holy Spirit’s Role in Sermon Preparation and Delivery. B&H, 2007. 156 pp.
In the words of author Greg Heisler, “Spirit-Led Preaching is a call issued to preachers, pastors, and teachers of homiletics to recover the Holy Spirit for expository preaching in the same way we have recovered the biblical text. . . . My plan for doing this is to recover the doctrine of pneumatology (the study of spiritual beings/phenomena) for our theology of preaching, resulting in a renewed emphasis on the powerful combination of Word and Spirit working together as the catalyst for powerful expository preaching.”Heisler thoroughly examines how the Holy Spirit illuminates and empowers the preacher, opens the hearts of the hearers, and applies the message to their lives. Indeed, to ignore the Holy Spirit’s role in sermon preparation and delivery would be a considerable oversight.
Author: GregHeisler.com | SpiritLedPreaching.com | SEBTS
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Pastors/Church Leaders
- Brian Larson at Preaching Today (ND) Review
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Last updated 03/21/07
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John Blanchard and Dan Lucarini. Can We Rock the Gospel? Rock Music’s Impact on Worship and Evangelism. EP, 2006. 267 pp.
Few subjects generate more heat in the Christian church today than the use of music in worship and evangelism.Does God endorse music of every kind? Can we “cut and paste” secular rock music and “Christianize” it in the process? Should the Christian church unite in bringing rock music to the altar or in sending it to the bonfire?
Every musical form and every way of expressing it has as many detractors as it does promoters. Yet in recent years most of the conflicts have centred on what is generically known as rock music, which has become an increasingly dominant—and divisive—issue since it first slipped into church life some forty years ago.
Two respected Christian leaders and best-selling authors who together have many years of hands-on experience in worship, preaching, evangelism and music have combined to produce a book that examines this controversial subject, using both recent evidence and time-tested truths.
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- The Bookshelf (10/06) Review
- Tim Challies, Challies.com (10/06) Review
- Zach Nielsen, Vitamin Z (11/06) Review
- Gordon Ferguson, British Church Newspaper (12/06) Review
- Randall Shanks, Randall’s Ramblings (01/07) Review
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Last updated 03/21/07
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R. Scott Clark, ed. Covenant, Justification and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California. P&R, 2007. 480 pp.
The doctrine of justification and covenant theology are two of the most basic and yet most misunderstood doctrines in the contemporary Reformed world. This volume addresses both doctrines carefully, biblically, theologically, and practically. Few books address both covenant theology and justification, and relate these two doctrines to our confessions and virtually no treatments address it from the point of view of the theological departments: Exegetical theology, Systematic Theology, Historical Theology, and Practical Theology. This volume is intended for an academic audience but it is accessible to intelligent laity.
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Last updated 03/28/07
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Gary L. W. Johnson and Guy P. Waters, eds. By Faith Alone: Answering the Challenges to the Doctrine of Justification. Crossway, 2007. 224 pp.
The Reformation swept across Europe with a God-glorifying gospel of grace. Now the doctrine of grace cherished and proclaimed by the Reformers is under renewed assault from an unexpected place—the evangelical church itself.With the help of several theologians, Gary L. W. Johnson and Guy P. Waters trace the background and development of two seemingly disparate movements that have surfaced within the contemporary church—the New Perspective(s) on Paul and the Federal Vision—and how they corrupt the truth of salvation by faith alone. By regaining a focus on the doctrine of grace, pastors, seminarians, and future leaders can regain the cohesion, coherence, and direction to truly build the church to withstand the attacks of false and empty doctrines.
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Excerpts: TOC | Foreword and Introduction | Browse Inside
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- Lane Keister, Green Baggins, (02/07) Review (11 Parts!)
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Last updated 03/20/07
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