What I Read in 2010
DECEMBER 2010
Preparing for Marriage God’s Way by Wayne Mack
Brief Review: Preparing for Marriage God’s Way is a practical guide for those pursuing marriage and hoping to start on the right foot.
Your Family God’s Way by Wayne Mack
Brief Review: A super helpful and down to earth resource for those in search of biblical family life.
Foundations for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by Wayne Grudem Ed.
Brief Review: This book is an understandable and thorough resource on the importance of biblical roles for men and women.
NOVEMBER 2010
Experiencing Grief by H. Norman Wright
Brief Review: A very very UNhelpful book. Don’t bother.
OCTOBER 2010
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a Slave (Autobiography) Brief Review: Few books truly deserve a slow, word-for-word, out loud reading. This is one of them.
John Calvin and His Passion for the Majesty of God by John Piper
Brief Review: A profound little book on the rich life and ministry of John Calvin.
Christian Living in the Home by Jay Adams
Brief Review: This is a great little book on the biblical roles of husbands, wives, and children in the christian home.
Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul
Brief Review: An incredibly helpful, readable, and down-to-earth explanation of reformed soteriology.
SEPTEMBER 2010
Depression: A Stubborn Darkness by Edward Welch
Brief Review: Welch’s writing communicates a humble, understanding, gentle, insightful, practical, and uniquely biblical resource on depression.
Church Planting is for Wimps(IX Marks) by Mike McKinley
Brief Review: Another great resource from IX Marks. Church Planting is for Wimps, by Mike McKinley, is a thoroughly enjoyable, down-to-earth story about church planting/church revitalization. Full Review
What is the Gospel? (IX Marks) by Greg Gilbert
Brief Review: I love this little book. With What is the Gospel?, Greg Gilbert has provided a simple one-hundred-page definition of the gospel. Full Review
AUGUST 2010
Our Sufficiency in Christ by John MacArthur
Brief Review: Our Sufficiency in Christ is a helpful guide to understanding the dangers of mixing error with truth.
Church Planting Manual by Redeemer Presbyterian Church (Tim Keller)
Brief Review: The Keller Church Planting Manual is an incredibly practical and helpful guide for church planters. A must read.
Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
Brief Review: Total Church is a excellent book. Highly recommended for pastors and church planters. Chester and Timmis strike the essential harmony tone of both gospel and community.
JULY 2010
Planting Churches in the 21st Century (Kindle) by Stuart Murray
Brief Review: Planting Churches in the 21st Century presents a foundational treatment of the essential church planting issues. Murray is experienced, wise, and biblically discerning. Very helpful and recommended.
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters by Timothy Keller (Kindle)
Brief Review: Counterfeit Gods is an immensely helpful and practical book about the human heart and the idols it manufactures. Even good things become bad things, when Christ is not Ruler. A longer review yet to come.
JUNE 2010
Foundations for Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal by Eric Johnson
Brief Review: Some good theology. Some bad psychology. And a really clear example of why the two don’t mix.
MAY 2010
CrossTalk by Michael Emlet
Brief Review: CrossTalk sheds helpful light on the gospel as an historical redemptive story.
APRIL 2010
Psychology and Christianity: 4 Views by Collins, Myer, Powlison, and Roberts
Brief Review: Psychology and Christianity: 4 Views is a book helpful for learning the difference between integrationism, Christian psychology, and the biblical alternative.
Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer
Brief Review: Stetzer’s book is a foundational and insightful church planting guide.
The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context by David Powlison
Brief Review: Powlison carefully and insightful recounts the history of the biblical counseling movement, highlighting the foundations and refinements. Very Helpful!
March 2010
Care for the Soul by Mark R. McMinn and Timothy R. Phillips
Brief Review: McMinn and Phillips have compiled a series of chapters, most of which argue for a counseling model which seeks to integrate bankrupt psychological principles with Scripture.
Discovering Church Planting by J.D. Payne
Brief Review: This is a simple and foundational book which covers the basics of church planting.
A Theology of Christian Counseling by Jay Adams
Brief Review: Adams’
FEBRUARY 2010
Totally Sufficient by Ed Hindson, Howard Eyrich
Brief Review: Hindson and Eyrich have compiled a helpful collection of chapters from various authors regarding the sufficiency of Scripture in counseling/discipleship.
JANUARY 2010
So I didn’t read anything. Give me a break!
