by Craig Ott, Stephen J. Strauss, with Timothy C. Tennent Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287, 432 pages, 2010, $29.99. —Reviewed by Christopher Flanders, assistant professor
Increasingly, new converts from Islam are asking to be heard through the din. They are asking for empathy as they follow Jesus while maintaining a Muslim identity.
by Sue Eenigenburg and Robynn Bliss William Carey Library, 1605 E. Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104, 239 pages, 2010, $13.99. —Reviewed by Cheri Pierson, assistant professor, Intercultural Studies /TESOL,
It is time Western missionaries are “converted” and this involves at least three action steps we can take as we move toward change.
by Mark Shaw IVP Academic, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515, 221 pages, 2010, $20.00. —Reviewed by Eddie Gibbs, senior professor of church growth, Fuller Theological Seminary. There
Six ways we can deal with those who seek to destroy Christian community.
by J. Mack Stiles InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515-1226, 128 pages, 2010, $15.00. —Reviewed by John Mann, youth and teaching pastor at Salem Alliance Church
by Larry Poston “Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise—why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool—why die before your time? It is good
Why stories are often the best tools to teach others how to live holy lives.
Newell approaches the Great Commission narratives as sequential rather than synoptic. Each of the five Great Commission passages builds on the others to present the Commission.
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