Book Reviews
Our desire is that these resources will point you to the Way, help you know Truth and how it is applied in life.
The Company We Keep [Jonathan Holmes]
Believers share the common bond of the Spirit as brothers and sisters in Christ. Why then does our conversation after the sermon or over dinner so often linger in temporal things – work, weather, or the price of hamburger? Shouldn’t Christian friendships go deeper than this? I recently read The…
The Big Disconnect [Catherine Steiner-Adair]
Growing up, my media intake was confined to a handful of games on the family desktop or the rare movie on our tiny, black VCR. My parents chose to limit our digital connection and our family was the better for it. Anabaptists have typically approached technology with reservation, but in…
Teach Them Diligently [Lou Priolo]
All parents want to raise well-adjusted, successful children. (For Christians, that means more than just making them finish their broccoli or do their homework; it means teaching them to know the Lord). But parenting, like so much of life, does not begin with a practice session in the shallow end.…
Surviving the Tech Tsunami [Gary Miller]
In 2007, the IPhone revolutionized cell phone technology. Now 15 years later, it’s almost hard to remember the world without apps, touchscreens, and fast internet. In the few short decades of its existence, the internet has torn down our world and built it anew. Surviving the Tech Tsunami, by Gary…
Street Smarts [Gregory Koukl]
When was the last time you shared the gospel with an unbeliever? I know a handful of people who do this well—they can strike up conversations with perfect strangers at the grocery store and effortlessly turn the conversation toward Jesus. Yet for myself (and I suspect most Christians can relate)…
Spiritual Warfare in the Storyline of Scripture [Chuck Lawless; William F. Cook III]
We’ve all heard the cliché description of a Christian who sees a demon behind every bush. Rightly, we try to avoid that “devil made me do it” mentality. But we dare not forget “our adversary, the devil” who waits to pounce on our souls, though perhaps not from behind the…
Shrewd Samaritan [Bruce Wydick]
As Christians in the age of globalization, the problem of world poverty is no longer comfortably out of reach. We find ourselves asking, like the lawyer of Jesus’ day, “who is my neighbor?” Yet the answers to poverty are complex and our response is often simplistic. Shrewd Samaritan, by Bruce…
Sacrifice or Penalty [Keith Crider]
We Anabaptists pride ourselves in being People of the Book. Unlike many Christian denominations, we dress modestly, practice the head covering, and follow Jesus’ teaching from the Sermon on the Mount. Yet when it comes to the nuts and bolts of our theology, we don’t always understand why we believe…
Rescue Plan [Deepak Reju; Jonathan D. Holmes]
Pornography is no longer confined to Playboy magazines or adult video stores. It’s on billboards, it’s in New York Times bestsellers, and it’s one click away on the browser in your pocket. Christians today cannot avoid encountering porn; instead, we must win the war in our minds. Yet sadly, many…
Ready Reasons [Daniel Yoder] [Daniel Yoder]
I’ve often felt that being able to effectively explain one’s beliefs is something like a superpower. We all aspire to “always be prepared to give an answer,” but if you’re like me, it’s easy to come away from a conversation feeling unprepared, ineffective, or even in doubt of what is…
PsychoBabble [Richard Ganz]
Our propensity as Christians is to separate our lives into spiritual and non-spiritual arenas. Our jobs, our hobbies, our daily interactions – sometimes we pretend these are earthly matters, not spiritual ones. Yet in reality, no part of our lives can claim exemption from the reign of Christ. Why then,…
Powerful Leaders [Marcus Honeysett]
Mark Driscoll, Ravi Zacharias, James MacDonald, Bill Gothard. What do these men have in common? Large ministries, positions of influence, and scandals. Shocking as it may be in the moment, we’ve become used to the all-too-common news that another respected leader isn’t who we thought they were. Powerful Leaders?, by…
