Mark Buchanan
Biography
Mark Buchanan wrote The Rest of God, Spiritual Rhythm, and Your Church Is Too Safe.
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Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Mel Lawrenz has, by some alchemy of grace and daring, taken the harrowing pain of losing his beloved daughter and turned it into healing balm. A Chronicle of Grief deserves to stand alongside C. S. Lewis's A Grief Observed, Gerald Sittser's A Grace Disguised, and Nicholas Wolterstorff's Lament for a Son as an experience of rawest sorrow transmuted into a testament of deepest hope. Profoundly moving and profoundly life giving.”
Theology
“Jared Brock has no sympathy for the devil, but my goodness—he’s written both a riveting biography and a sweeping exposé of Old Scratch, and on top of that compiled a comprehensive manual of defense tactics to withstand Satan’s wiles. It’s a daunting task to tackle such a grim subject, but Jared does it with characteristic wit, wisdom, flair, and—above all—love for the church. This is, in fact, mostly that: an extended epistle to the people of God on how not to be unaware of the devil’s schemes. In A Devil Named Lucifer, Jared Brock gives us the evil one’s entire playbook. We’re well armed.”
Men
“This is a work of both whimsy and profundity, at once silly and sublime, filled with hirsute hijinks and hair-raising insights. Jared Brock’s and Aaron Alford’s playful humor is irresistible—many times I positively chortled, and even a few times guffawed—and their vivid portraits of 31 manly (and maybe bearded) men are riveting and convicting. This is a book to make you both laugh and think. Even more, this is a book to make you want to be more, well . . . manly. And more godly. I’m even thinking of growing a beard.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“It takes audacity and humility to confess your own frailty and folly. It takes grace and wisdom to mine these things for enduring life lessons. Stephen brings all that to this book. He is a man who listens deeply to his own life and who flourishes because of, not in spite of, weakness and brokenness. And he writes so well, so honestly and so practically about these things that I feel a fresh rush of hope that my own weakness and brokenness is the path to wholeness.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“The genius of Steve's approach is he makes ancient ways contemporary, personal and practical. Saint Benedict joins your daily commute. George Mueller helps you reconcile your bank statement. There's no need to live in a cave or meditate atop a pillar. The life you long to live can be fashioned from the life you already have.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“A book about the church being a family—that's not a new idea. But such a book that is not clinical or therapeutic or theological, but like a father running hard, arms flung wide, to welcome home his wayward son—maybe that's not new either, but it's fresh, beautiful, wise, and healing. Feels Like Home feels, well, like home. Lee Eclov writes like a father who's just ordered the fattened calf served up, and whose feet are already tapping to fiddle music. Come on in! There's bread to spare here, and then some.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“The gap between wanting to spend time with Jesus and merely logging time with him comes down to imagination. In Friendship with Jesus, Dan Heavenor helps us close that gap. Walking us through an ancient approach to prayer and weaving into it his own story of learning to be a friend of Jesus, he guides us to a place of freedom and delight. If you, like me, want a richer, fuller, more fruitful prayer life, the answer, literally, is in your hands.”
History & Biography
“mother’s death, is a wonder of storytelling and a testament of grace. What joy and terror it evokes, to know this God is out there and on the loose, able to turn even the stoniest heart to flesh.”
Theology
“Gordon Smith is that rare fine thing: a theologian whose delight in what he’s writing about is its own kind of doxology. He is, as always, superb at analysis and explanation, but here these qualities tremble at the edge of proclamation, witness, prayer, and often just burst right into them. In this new work, he not only recaptures for today’s church the vital but largely forgotten doctrine of Christ’s Ascension, but he shows how this doctrine illumines and enlivens virtually every corner of our lives, as we wait and work In the Meantime. I’m hoping this book gets into many hands, its message gets into many hearts, and its truth shows up in many pulpits.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Intercession. When I first heard the word, many years back, it conjured otherworldly images: wild-eyed prophets calling down fire, stern-visaged lawgivers cleaving seas, cave-dwelling saints raising the dead. Tricia Rhodes’ Intimate Intercession shows otherwise: that even ordinary folk like you and me are called to stand in the gap. What’s more, she persuades that intercession is the best path to intimacy with and imitation of Jesus, and that as we walk that path, Jesus more and more invites us to be eyewitnesses to and holy vessels of his redemptive presence in the earth. This is a great book on prayer for the simple reason that it actually makes you want to pray.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“In her vividly but faithfully imagined vignettes of thirty biblical characters, Ann Spangler unerringly gets to the heart of the matter: God always works with deeply flawed people, and he often works in spite of them. Ann’s rich portraits capture the strangeness of each character’s times and yet the familiarity of their situations. These stories—of Adam and Eve and their varied offspring—warn and encourage us both: after all, we too are sons of Adam and daughters of Eve, and these stories are our stories. They remind us of what runs in our blood and of the One whose blood can redeem it all.”
World Religions
“I’ve had only one regret knowing Carson Pue: that I don’t know him better. And I’ve had only one disappointment spending time with him: that I couldn’t spend more. Carson is a leader’s leader and a mentor’s mentor, and now—finally— he’s captured on paper, available to all, his insights in both areas. This book unfolds like a season of long chats with a man of great grace and deep wisdom.”
Christian Living
“He’s done it again, and then some. Ken Shigematsu’s latest book is both capstone and fresh foundation—a consummation of his earlier works, a breaking of new ground. He writes with verve, insight, and humility and tells a tale at once theological, biblical, ancient, and contemporary—and so vitally important. With his skillful weaving of multiple sources and his sheer knack for storytelling, Shigematsu entertains even as he edifies. This book is necessary reading for all who wrestle with the nettlesome and perennial question, Who am I?”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“It's impossible to overstate how needed, valuable, timely and timeless this book is. It is as wise as Methuselah and as practical as a slingshot. Ruth has rendered a massive service to church leaders everywhere, and to all the churches they lead. Herein lies the remedy for the sad but common malady we see today: otherwise godly men and women pursuing God's kingdom with worldly navigational equipment. I plan to buy a case of Pursuing God's Will Together upon its release and make it mandatory reading for all of our leaders. It can hardly come soon enough.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Regardless of what you think of Greg Paul’s book Queer Prophets, he’s done us and the church a massive service by writing it. Where Christians have too often bogged down in fruitless, bitter debates about an issue, he sees this man, this woman. He knows their names, has listened well to their stories, and now tells those stories with humility, compassion, and wisdom. No one is more qualified to do so. Greg can navigate Scripture with depth and deftness, but he is no armchair theologian. He has walked with queer folk for more than three decades, and here brings us the fruit of that journey. Many will read this book and disagree with some or all of it. But it is impossible to read this book and not be deeply moved, profoundly convicted, and left with a longing for a more excellent way.”
Theology
“Van De Walle has pulled off a small miracle: he has written a book of theology that’s also a page-turner. He has a gift for rendering complex ideas in lively prose with lucid arguments—and presenting it all as nourishment for the soul. In Rethinking Holiness he employs this gift on a topic the church urgently needs to rediscover: holiness. I am going to recommend this book widely in the hope that it reintroduces to the church (and to the world) the staggering beauty of God’s holiness and invites us again to delight in the good news that God shares God’s own holiness with us in order to makes us holy as God is holy.”
History & Biography
“Carolyn Weber's Sex and the City of God is a wise, poignant, funny reflection on sex and the modern girl, only that the modern girl in this case is also freshly and deeply smitten by Jesus. Not since Lauren Winner's Girl Meets God have we had such a candid memoir of coming to faith and keeping the faith in an age that values neither. Carolyn's voice is clear and honest, and all through her tale of love lost and love found we sense an enduring wisdom for our own mortal and moral dilemmas.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“What a perfectly cut gem of a book this is: wise, clear, concise and practical, it instructs in the art of spiritual direction while at the same moment inspiring us to give and receive it. Gordon Smith distills his considerable knowledge of this vital topic and bestows on us something useful and beautiful, simple and substantial. This book brims with insights and has not a wasted word anywhere.”
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