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.
Digital Liturgies [Samuel James]
When was the last time you were more than fifty feet from your smartphone? I’m just old enough to remember a time when people would have replied, “What’s a smartphone?” But, it’s time we reckon with the reality that we don’t live in that world any longer. In many ways…
Dear Daughter: Letters From the Father’s Heart [Dorcas Stutzman]
This month’s review looks at Dear Daughter: Letters from the Father’s Heart, women’s devotional book written by Dorcas Stutzman. Together, Dorcas and her husband Steve Stutzman run a counseling ministry called Strait Paths Foundation and travel the country singing and teaching in Anabaptist communities. Along the lines of the popular…
Closing the Window: Steps to Living Porn Free [Tim Chester]
There is a cancer – pornography – metastasizing in the Church today. And our silence, our failure to diagnose only helps strengthen porn’s grip and weaken those struggling in our midst. In Closing the Window: Steps to Living Porn Free, Tim Chester takes a straightforward look at the porn plague,…
Christianity and Liberalism [J. Gresham Machen]
It’s tempting to feel that the problems of our own age are somehow different from any other, that Christianity faces a unique battle in this post-truth world. When we feel that temptation, we do well to look back at history. This month we look back at Christianity and Liberalism, written…
Christ’s Kingdom Commission [David Anderson]
In our politicized times, it’s not uncommon to hear an evangelical leader throw their support behind some political measure to save religious liberty or to preserve Christian values. And to be honest, the dinnertime conversation of your average Anabaptist might not be much different. Christ’s Kingdom Commission by David Anderson…
Christ’s Atonement of Blood [Chris Good]
If you read the FCM Informer, you should have received a copy of Christ’s Atonement of Blood, by Chris Good, in your mailbox recently. Good wrote this paper fifteen years ago, but FCM recently published it in booklet form because “the atonement issue has re-emerged as an even more important…
Can We Trust the Gospels? [Peter J. Williams]
Do you ever question whether the Bible is true? If not, you ought to; everything hinges on it. To be sure, I don’t mean to stir up doubt, but any truth worth believing should stand up to scrutiny. When it does stand, we can confidently stake our life on it.…
Becoming Elisabeth Elliot [Ellen Vaughn]
As a boy, I dreamed of being a missionary pilot, inspired by the story of Nate Saint and the other four missionaries speared on an Ecuador riverbank. Their “stranger than fiction” story stirs our imagination. What must it be like to have that zeal for evangelism, to make that selfless…
Business for the Glory of God [Wayne Grudem]
These days, Anabaptists are as well known for their construction and cabinetry as they are for coverings and community. The quiet in the land have become the landed gentry. Many have—rightly—critiqued the growing problem of materialism as contrary to Jesus’ teachings. Yet this leaves us with a difficult question: Are…
Abortion: A Rational Look at the Emotional Issue [R.C. Sproul]
Few issues carry the potential for division like the abortion debate. And few issues could fuel 40 years of turmoil and controversy on all sides. In Abortion: a rational look at the emotional issue, author and academic R.C. Sproul lays out the pro-life case with reason and grace. He points…
A Different Shade of Green [Gordon Wilson]
In 2019, Oxford Dictionary named “climate emergency” the word of the year. Indeed, we are bombarded with ever bleaker reports on Earth’s impending demise. As Christians, we understand that the end of the world will come when God judges it, not when we accidentally destroy it. So we’re off the…
