Timothy L. Brown

Chasing after Wind

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Douglas Brouwer’s memoir on pastoral work is a gem and a treasure that will be known as such for a long time to come. Eugene Peterson lamented in Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity, ‘Pastors are abandoning their posts, left and right, and at an alarming rate. . . . The pastors of America have metamorphosed into a company of shopkeepers.’ He certainly wasn’t thinking of Douglas Brouwer when he wrote that. I have known Doug for a very long time, and he is the real deal. His memoir is pure gift!”

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“In 1987 Eugene Peterson saved my pastoral soul. He did it with the ancient wisdom of Working the Angles. He is at it again with Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. Everything I know and love about Peterson, personally and vocationally, stands skyscraper tall on the pages of this book. His life and his obedience are as tight as a lug nut on a fire hydrant. Here is a single-minded book for the pastor trying to shepherd the flock through the hill country of postmodern moral multiple choice. Here is a book for the scholar and teacher trying to find a sane way to rejoin the severed body parts of theology and practice. Here is a book for thinking Christian believers who know, if only intuitively, that all the religious self-help books in the world will never help us to 'play Christ' in that world 'in ten thousand places'!”

Confessing the Faith Today

Theology

“Janssen carefully follows the contours of this time-tested confessional treasure, from the way we know God generally through creation, to a particular and special knowledge of God through the one true son of God, Jesus Christ. But he doesn't end there because the Church of Jesus Christ doesn't end there. As reformed believers we play a role in our larger culture and Jannsen helps us see this! I will make this 'must-reading' for my students!”

Our Only Comfort

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Stephen Shaffer is an exceedingly bright and faithful pastoral theologian in the great tradition of John Calvin. This beautiful piece on ways of utilizing the Heidelberg Catechism in our crazy and mixed-up culture will be a gift to everyone who reads it and a terrific resource for everyone who deploys it in their own home. In his Third Epistle, John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, shared the longing of every parent and pastor, 'I have no greater joy than to know that my children are walking in the truth.' Schaffer has written a book that will help every reader experience that joy.”

Questions Christians Aren’t Supposed to Ask

Apologetics

“I once heard the late Bob Cook, longtime President of King’s College in Briar Cliff, New York, say, ‘What a person says about you having known you for twenty minutes may or may not be true. What a person says about you having known you for twenty years is most likely true.’ I have known Jim Brownson for much longer than twenty years I can tell you that he is a thoughtful, thorough scholar who has asked and answered tough questions for a very long time. I can’t wait for you to verify this for yourself as you read Questions Christians Aren’t Supposed to Ask.”