One of our goals is helping our readers find good books and avoid bad ones. As such, we post book reviews that we hope will inform our readers. Some will be explicitly on the church; others will be important to the life of the church even if they are not directly addressing how church ought to be done.
Book reviews are listed alphabetically by title, along with the reviewer and a summary of the review, indicating whether you should read the book: skip it, discerningly, recommended, and required.
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Book Reviews
- Adopted for Life—Russell D. Moore (reviewed by PJ King)
—recommended - The American Evangelical Story—Douglas Sweeney (reviewed by PJ King)
—recommended - Boundaries in Marriage—Drs. Henry Cloud & John Townsend (reviewed by PJ King)
—skip it - Church Planting is for Wimps—Mike McKinley (reviewed by PJ King)
—recommended - The Confident Woman—Joyce Meyer (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—skip it - Divorce and Remarriage: A Permanence View—Daryl Wingerd, Jim Elliff, Jim Chrisman, and Steve Burchett (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—recommended - Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith—Matthew Lee Anderson (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—required - The Elder and Overseer: One Office in the Early Church—Ben Merkle (reviewed by Ben Arbour)
—recommended - The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship—Robert Letham (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—recommended - Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will—Kevin DeYoung (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—recommended - Nine Marks of a Healthy Church—Mark Dever (reviewed by PJ King)
—required - No Place for Truth—David F. Wells (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—required - Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God—John Piper (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—required
- Who Runs the Church? 4 Views on Church Government—ed. Stanley B. Cowan (reviewed by Chris Krycho)
—recommended