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.
Fight Like a Man [Emeal Zwayne]
The epidemic of Christians consuming pornography is one of the defining failures of our time. While lust has always been a besetting sin, the convergence of smartphones, the internet, and the ethics of the sexual revolution have created a perfect storm. Over the years, I’ve reviewed a number of good…
Fault Lines [Voddie Baucham]
Along with reviewing Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice earlier this year, I’ve been reading a number of books related to Social Justice and Critical Race Theory. This month, we look at Fault Lines, a recent book by Voddie Baucham. For those unfamiliar, Voddie Baucham is a pastor, professor,…
Encountering God Through Expository Preaching [Brian Payne; Jim Scott Orrick; Ryan Fullerton]
Think of a time when you have experienced the power and presence of God. (Perhaps a time of prayer, or singing, or solitude in nature.) Often, however, we experience God through his Word – and specifically the preached Word. Have you ever asked yourself, “How did the preacher know I…
Disappearing Church [Mark Sayers]
Christianity laid the foundation of Western society, but cultural shifts have left the church looking more like an eccentric great-uncle: outdated, embarrassing, and unacceptable. In Disappearing Church, Mark Sayers chronicles the church’s many attempts to regain popularity and prominence, but also explains why they won’t work. Sayers challenges us to…
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…
