Book Reviews (Page 6)
Planting Missional Churches
I have just finished reading Stetzer’s latest book, ‘Planting Missional Churches – Planting a church that’s biblically sound and reaching people in culture.’ I have been reviewing it piece by piece, particularly with regard to the ’10 Marks of an Effective Plant’ series. As with all books there are good bits and there are bad.…
The Dawkins Letters
Get hold of a few copies and give to your friends (the ones that can read anyway)!
Thirsting for God!
I am reading a new book – Thirsting for God – by Gary L Thomas. The subtext is ‘Spiritual refreshment for the sacred journey’. It sounds painfully emergent and uber cool and comes with a big fat recommendation from one Mark Driscoll. The problem is that it seems to have elicited a very caustic response from within the ‘conservative…
Respectable Sins!
I have been reading this book as a devotional aid for some time now. It is written by Jerry Bridges and you can buy it here from Amazon. The subtext is ‘Confronting The Sins We Tolerate’. It is 21 ‘easy to read’ chapters long and Jerry deals with issues such as: ungodliness, anxiety, frustration, anger, unthankfulness, pride, lack of self control,…
Breaking The Missional Code
This is the title of a book I have just finished reading. You can find it here on Amazon. It is written by Ed Stetzer & David Pullman and is aimed at the North American market. This requires some hard thinking in order to extract principles that could apply to the UK. Despite the weird sounding title I really enjoyed the book. It is quite even handed in critiquing…
Planting For The Gospel
A Hands on guide to Church Planting by Graham Benyon. This is a nifty little book which gives us food for thought in a British context. Published by www.christianfocus.com
9 Marks of a Healthy Church
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/15013700]We have used this book in our evening teaching sessions at the church. It doesn’t claim to be comprehensive but it is extremely helpful and practical. I did find that I had to do some work ‘fleshing it out’ and contextualising it for my people but it was well worth the effort.