Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 37 of 40 · 942 in all.
In the Presence of My Enemies
From “Seized at Dawn” to “Going Home,” we walk and run with Gracia and Martin Burnham through the Philippine jungle for over a year.
Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation
In the late 1990s some GenXers who were serving God in various mission organizations found each other and began discussing their experiences and perceptions.
Following Jesus: Making Disciples of Primary Oral Learners (CD)
Where did we get the notion that literacy is a prerequisite to understanding the Bible?
Acquainted with Grief: Wang Mindao’s Stand for the Persecuted Church in China
Even though Christians are only a small percentage of China’s 1.3 billion people, two Christian names are well recognized throughout the country.
Guide for Pilgrims to the Heavenly City
This book, built on lessons from Hebrews, will help Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) persevere in pilgrimage.
Christianity at the Religious Roundtable
This book intends to push conservative Christians into serious engagements with a pluralistic world as well as challenge the faulty presuppositions of liberal Christians who sacrifice the basic tenets of the Christian faith.
A Tapestry of Faith: The Common Threads between Christianity and World Religions
Can a sincere Zoroastrian be saved? Is there truth in non-Christian religions? Many have attempted to answer such questions with some form of exclusivism, inclusivism, or pluralism.
Changing Tides: Latin America and World Mission Today
Samuel Escobar finds the missionary potential of the region in several developments, including self-generated church growth, conversion-prompted social change, and Catholic adoption of Protestant methods.
Beyond Fragmentation: Integrating Mission and Theological Education
Chris Sugden describes Beyond Fragmentation as “a cold bath of realism.” A cold bath it is; EMQ readers may find it a bath of radicalism, however, rather than realism.
What Does It Mean to Be Saved?
What Does it Mean to be Saved is a collection of essays which were inspired by a conference held at Regent College in October 2001.
Let the Nations Be Glad!
If you’re tempted to think that the second edition of John Piper’s Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions is little more than a publisher’s effort to rekindle interest in a classic work, resist that temptation with all the effort you can muster.
In the Presence of My Enemies
From “Seized at Dawn” to “Going Home,” we walk and run with Gracia and Martin Burnham through the Philippine jungle for over a year.
Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation
In the late 1990s some GenXers who were serving God in various mission organizations found each other and began discussing their experiences and perceptions.
Following Jesus: Making Disciples of Primary Oral Learners (CD)
Where did we get the notion that literacy is a prerequisite to understanding the Bible?
Acquainted with Grief: Wang Mindao’s Stand for the Persecuted Church in China
Even though Christians are only a small percentage of China’s 1.3 billion people, two Christian names are well recognized throughout the country.
Guide for Pilgrims to the Heavenly City
This book, built on lessons from Hebrews, will help Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) persevere in pilgrimage.
Christianity at the Religious Roundtable
This book intends to push conservative Christians into serious engagements with a pluralistic world as well as challenge the faulty presuppositions of liberal Christians who sacrifice the basic tenets of the Christian faith.
A Tapestry of Faith: The Common Threads between Christianity and World Religions
Can a sincere Zoroastrian be saved? Is there truth in non-Christian religions? Many have attempted to answer such questions with some form of exclusivism, inclusivism, or pluralism.
Changing Tides: Latin America and World Mission Today
Samuel Escobar finds the missionary potential of the region in several developments, including self-generated church growth, conversion-prompted social change, and Catholic adoption of Protestant methods.
Beyond Fragmentation: Integrating Mission and Theological Education
Chris Sugden describes Beyond Fragmentation as “a cold bath of realism.” A cold bath it is; EMQ readers may find it a bath of radicalism, however, rather than realism.
What Does It Mean to Be Saved?
What Does it Mean to be Saved is a collection of essays which were inspired by a conference held at Regent College in October 2001.
Let the Nations Be Glad!
If you’re tempted to think that the second edition of John Piper’s Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions is little more than a publisher’s effort to rekindle interest in a classic work, resist that temptation with all the effort you can muster.
The Gospel for Hindus: A Study in Contextual Communication
Contextual biblical witness in the Hindu world has not received adequate attention in today’s witnessing community.
Interwoven
In 1945 Gene, along with 2,100 other prisoners, was rescued the morning she was to be executed at the Japanese internment camp in Los Banos. General Douglas MacArthur called this ‘the most thrilling rescue in all of American military history.’”