Zondervan, 2005. It is no secret that there has been a strong tendency in Pentecostal/Charismatic circles to downplay the use of the mind, the intellect,…
Baker, 2004. This book rightly argues for the primacy of love and our need to more closely reflect Jesus. Yet in a number of respects…
Baker, 2004. I begin by reiterating what I said in part 1: much of the message of this book needs to be heard. But because…
Zondervan, 2005. It is an unfortunate but oft-repeated habit that trends and fads in the world tend to be slavishly picked up and replicated by…
The theological issue of the relationship between law and gospel is far too complex and has had way too much ink spilled over it for…
Crossway, 2005. It has always been a temptation for the Christian church to slavishly copy the latest trends of the day. While there is a…
In 1994 Mark Noll wrote an important book entitled The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans). In it he argued that the scandal of the…
Eerdmans, 2004. The issue of the relationship between men and women is a vexed and complex issue. Plenty of volumes have been written on this…
Eerdmans, 2002. I was in a Protestant Christian bookshop recently and was talking about this book with the store’s manager. When he learned of the…
InterVarsity Press, 2001. This book has a sobering and timely message: most churches have stopped growing. Sure, many are getting bigger, but that is only…
The ink had just dried on a piece I wrote critical of a new book on homosexuality and the church by the Anglican Church doctrine…
Much of the Christian life involves getting the right balance. Heresies in the church usually arise when we over-emphasise a certain doctrine or teaching, resulting…
The first line of Carl F. H. Henry’s six-volume, 3,000 page work, God, Revelation and Authority says this: “No fact of contemporary Western life is…
Christians both within and without the Australian Christian Churches are excited and encouraged about the formation of the ACC. As one who writes from outside…
Brian Houston Ministries, 1999 In this book the pastor of Hillsong Church in Sydney shares his concerns about money. He believes that Christians have a…
Often when I make an appeal for Christian social involvement, I get some Christians who bring up various objections, most of which boil down to…
A radical thought came to me recently. It happened as I was reading a biography of Charles Wesley, and was blessed by the exciting accounts…
One if the missing ingredients of modern Christian life is that of church discipline. We have all but lost the New Testament understanding of discipline…
Crossway Books, 1992. Several good critiques of religious feminism have appeared lately, including two from Ignatius Press: Ungodly Rage, by Donna Steichen, and What Will…