Book Reviews

Calls to Worship (Christian Focus) will be a helpful tool for pastors and others who lead worship services.

In I Once Was Lost (IVP), Don Everts and Doug Schaupp tell us what postmoderns say about how they came to follow Jesus.

Many of the surveys of church participation are deceptive, according to David T. Olson in The American Church in Crisis (Zondervan).

Art Lindsley reminds us all the carefully-crafted arguments are no substitute for a life that reflects the love of Christ.

The Emergent Church continues to be a source of fascination and annoyance to many pastors.

In Me to We (Group), Alan Nelson argues the "pastor-centric paradigm" found in most churches does not equip church members to serve, resulting in churches that are neither biblical nor healthy.

In Comeback Churches (B&H), Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson draw on the experiences of hundreds of churches to provide practical insights for church leaders to recapture a vision and a mission-based future for their congregations.

Christ & Culture Revisited (Wm. B. Eerdmans) by D.A. Carson takes on the classic H. Richard Niebuhr book and offers contemporary believers a biblical vision for faithful engagement with today's culture.

While it has nothing to do with preaching, The Last Lecture (Hyperion) is a book preachers should read.

This intellectually compelling Christian apologia is written with integrity and compassion toward skeptics of Christianity and those who yearn to bring them to faith.