Da Capo Press sent us an interesting new book written by Andrew Beaujon, who has also written for Spin Magazine, The Washington Post, and salon.com. The book, titled Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inisde the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, is an outsiders look (with input from insiders) at the history of contemporary Christian music. What …
Category Archive: Book Reviews
Books we like and generally recommend.
Jun 10 2006
Singing and Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today
Tim Challies has reviewed Paul Jones’s new book, Singing and Making Music: Issues in Church Music Today. Jones is organist and Music Director at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, formerly pastored by the late James Montgomery Boice. Among the chapters listed by Challies: Sermon in Song: Sacred Music as ProclamationSacred Music as PrayerAuthenticity in Corporate …
Jun 08 2006
New Book: Family Worship
Thanks to Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds for the heads up on a new book called Family Worship: In the Bible, in History, and in Your Home. Below is some information provided by Whitney’s website: Don Whitney has written a book we truly need. . . . This book belongs in every Christian home …
Jun 05 2006
Book Review: Breaking the Missional Code: Stetzer and Putman
Breaking the Missional Code is a book about doing church ministry in the 21st century, co-written by two pastors who have experience in planting churches in America . Ed Stetzer has planted several churches and is currently serves as both co-pastor of Lake Ridge Church , a new church plant in Georgia , and …
May 23 2006
Review: Confessions of a Reformission Rev: by Mark Driscoll
Mark Driscoll’s Confessions Mark Driscoll is pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, a church Driscoll started ten years ago in one of the most unchurched areas in America. The church has since grown to a number of several thousand, but not without many encountering many valleys, weirdos, Pharisees, and curveballs along the way. The …
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