Category: Community

Knowing the Spirit by Costi Hinn: A Review

Benny Hinn's nephew writes on the Holy Spirit after leaving the family ministry. Clear, anchored teaching, with boundaries drawn tighter than ours.

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala: A Review

The Brooklyn Tabernacle story, and Cymbala's argument that the prayer meeting is the engine and everything else is downstream. Testimony, not method.

Calling: God’s Blueprint for Your Life by Richard S. Park: A Review

A theology professor separates the general call every Christian shares from the particular work you are suited to. Check which of the two editions you are buying.

Good Questions Have Small Groups Talking: Ecclesiastes by Josh Hunt: A Review

Six ready-to-use lesson plans on Ecclesiastes, about 20 questions each. A prep-time saver for volunteer leaders, not original exposition. Check the edition.

Adam Loves Eve by Russ Resnik: A Review

A marriage book for men from a Messianic Jewish publisher, something our old review never said. Serious attention to Genesis 2, and who it suits.

The Biblical Masculinity Blueprint by Stephen Casper: A Review

Narrower than the title suggests: this is a book about attraction, dating and marriage for Christian men. Most useful if you are single.

Adventuring Through the Bible: Old Testament by Ray C. Stedman: A Review

Stedman's book-by-book Old Testament survey. Why this is half of a single original volume, and who a plain-spoken 1980s survey still suits.

Of Kings and Prophets by Mark Rutland: A Review

Mark Rutland on natural authority and spiritual power, drawn from the prophets who confronted kings. Written by a man who has held both kinds of authority.

The Biblical Man by Jeremiah Greever: A Review

A pastor and biblical counselor writes on manhood from a decade of counseling men. Strong on temptation, and more prescriptive about roles than we are.

Holy Sexuality and the Gospel by Christopher Yuan: A Review

Christopher Yuan's case that chastity in singleness and faithfulness in marriage is one standard for everyone. What the book does well, and the one live disagreement inside it.

The Monks of Tibhirine by John W. Kiser: A Review

Not a leadership book. John Kiser's history of seven Trappist monks killed in Algeria in 1996, and why they refused to leave. Read this before you buy.

Friendship with God by Jamie Moore: A Review

Jamie Moore's book is about friendship with God, not friendship between men. What it argues, the charismatic framing to expect, and what we could not verify.