Mark Dever. What is a Healthy Church? Crossway, 2007. 128 pp.
I spoke to Mark Dever just about a year ago and asked him if there were any books in his future. At that time he mentioned that he’d soon have a book out dealing with personal evangelism but that he had nothing planned after that. It seems that his plans changed! The book on evangelism is due for release in just a few days (September 11). It has been preceded by What is a Healthy Church and will be followed by The Church and Her Challenges. What is a Healthy Church? is a shortened, introductory version of Dever’s previous book 9 Marks of a Healthy Church written primarily for people in the pews rather than the men in the pulpits. After all, church health is not the sole responsibility of a local church’s leadership.
Reviewed by Tim Challies.
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John Ensor. The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace. Crossway, 2006. 192 pp.
In the Introduction, John Ensor lays the foundation of the book by fleshing out and describing The Human Experience of God’s Outworking Grace. He gives three reasons for doing so: “because the problem is the greatest of all problems,” “because the solution is the most excellent of all solutions,” and “because the change it produces is the most extreme change possible.” He defines the terms and sets the parameters that will guide and drive the discussions throughout the rest of the book. He lists the ingredients with which he will craft an incredible feast for the mind. So we too will experience the, “the sin-forgiving gift of it, the guilt-removing power of it, the soul-satisfying joy of it, the cross-suffering mystery of it, the conscience-cleansing experience of it, the life-transforming quality of it, the muscular faith-building impact of it, the eternally reconciling splendor of it.”
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Bruce Demarest. The Cross and Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation. Crossway, 1997. 544 pp.
This volume is the first in a series on the various doctrines of systematic theology (Foundations of Evangelical Theology) edited by John S. Feinberg. Two more volumes in the series have since been released: No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God by John S. Feinberg and To Know and Love God: Method for Theology by David K. Clark. Demarest has produced a magnificent soteriological work. It is extremely well organized and meticulously thorough. It is written on a technical level, and it would function quite well as a textbook or supplemental reading for seminary studies in soteriology.
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