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The Reformers and their Stepchildren is not your classic pleasure-read. I picked it up as a classroom assignment, and “textbook” is the exact genre label I would give it. But while it was thick with facts and a drudgery at … Continue reading
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Have you ever been engrossed in a book on a subject that is completely out of your sphere of knowledge, yet you seriously could not put the book down? For example, the history of the bookshelf, the pencil, or the … Continue reading
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World-Class Christian Education in the Church, School, and Home Mitchell’s Leading is a very difficult book to review. On the one hand, in its class as a teaching-theory book from a Christian perspective, I am sure it is “top notch.” … Continue reading
The subtitle to this book explains it better than anything: “A Practical Guide for Organizing a Food Pantry.” One couldn’t find a more practical guide anywhere, and the author clearly displays her love for the needy and her heart for … Continue reading
Sola Scripture: The Protestant Position on the Bible (2009) delves deeply into issues about Scripture if not the Scripture itself. Continue reading
[Note: This post was originally written as a case study for a Midwestern church as part of a seminary course. The content focuses on the information outlines in this book.] Faith Community Church has a long history in this Midwestern … Continue reading
In their book, 11 Innovations in the Local Church: How Today’s Leaders Can Learn, Discern and Move into the Future, co-authors Elmer Towns, Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird describe eleven innovative church-types growing in North America today, and they dissect … Continue reading
In his book, A New Kind of Church: Understanding Models of Ministry for the 21st Century, Aubrey Malphurs not only argues for change in the way the majority of American Christians do church, but also seeks to meet head-on the … Continue reading
A seminary report on Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century by Aubrey Malphurs (1998) Continue reading
Author Information Erwin Raphael McManus holds a B.A. in psychology from UNC at Chapel Hill and a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. While McManus calls himself the “primary communicator and cultural architect”[1] of … Continue reading
