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March 10, 2010
Featured Book Review

When Helping Hurts

Author: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
Reviewer: Tim Challies

In 2006 Americans spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.6 billion on short-term missions. Some 2.2 million Americans were involved in one of these trips, up from just 120,000 two decades before. Such mission work has very nearly become a rite of passage for young American Christians.
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News & Notes

A Personal Note

If you have at all noticed that posting around here has been done in spurts and starts since last summer, then you may have clued in that something's a bit off...and you'd be right. In the summer of 2009 I (Managing Editor Mark Tubbs) began to experience a recurrence of a strain of pneumonitis that had bothered me 18 months before. Only this time, it came back with a vengeance. Tomorrow I go in for lung surgery to determine whether this is "only" some sort of pneumonia or whether it's something more serious.

Hampton Writes History

We here at DR don't tend to tip our hands as to the books we are reading before we post reviews of them, but I can't help but crow about the 2008 Oxford University Press release Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I by the Rev. Dr. Stephen Hampton, Dean of Peterhouse in Cambridge.

"Soul Physicians" chapter-by-chapter treatment

Pastor Mark Kelly at Grace Dependent only started blogging in January of this year, but his informative, prolific blog has already made a splash in the Christian blogosphere. Kelly usually focuses on summary book reviews, but recently began to blog through Bob Kellemen's Soul Physicians on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Doc K is one of DR's reliable, discerning reviewers, so we are happy to point you to a blog that is giving Doc's book some much-deserved exposure.

March 12, 2010
Book Review
"A Multi-Site Church Roadtrip" by Geoff Surratt

There has been a movement within the last few years to develop single-campus churches into multiple sites. To accomplish this, there may be a video feed from the main campus to other campuses, or a pre-recorded message broadcast, or even a teaching team sharing the teaching in the various campuses.

March 11, 2010
Book Review
"The Noticer" by Andy Andrews

He appears when least expected but most needed. Usually dressed in blue jeans, sandals, and an old t-shirt, the white-haired sage is a mystery to the small Orange Beach, AL community. The most anyone really knows about him is his name. "My name is Jones. No 'Mr.' Just plain Jones," is his customary reply.

March 10, 2010
Book Review
"When Helping Hurts" by Steve Corbett

In 2006 Americans spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.6 billion on short-term missions. Some 2.2 million Americans were involved in one of these trips, up from just 120,000 two decades before. Such mission work has very nearly become a rite of passage for young American Christians.

March 09, 2010
Book Review
"The Historical Jesus" by James Beilby

"Who do people say that I am?" It's interesting that Jesus didn't start off by asking the disciples the personal question that would follow ("Who do you say that I am?"). He first asked them what other people were saying. The views of Jesus were varied in the first century. They are even more so today.

March 08, 2010
Book Review
"Scandalous" by D.A. Carson

Do you want to see the greatest evidence of the love of God? Go to the cross. Do you want to see the greatest evidence of the justice of God? Go to the cross. It is where wrath and mercy meet. Holiness and peace kiss each other. The climax of redemptive history is the cross. So says D.A. Carson, research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, in his new book, Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus.

March 05, 2010
Book Review
"A New Kind of Christianity" by Brian McLaren

Early in George Orwell's iconic 1984 is a particularly haunting scene. Winston, the hero of the story, is confessing to his diary a sexual encounter with a prostitute.

March 03, 2010
Book Review
"John Bunyan" by Kevin Belmonte

Who was the man who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, and what shaped him? Those are the questions that Kevin Belmonte seeks to answer in his new biography of John Bunyan. This book is one of many in Thomas Nelson's "Christian Encounters" series.

March 01, 2010
Book Review
"Wired for Intimacy" by William Struthers

I read recently of a researcher who wanted to study the effects of pornography on young adult males. He carefully built the structure for the study, determining how he would compare young men who had experienced pornography with a control group comprised of those who had never come into contact it. Tragically this researcher had to cancel his study. He found that he was unable to put together a control group; he could not find young men who had not discovered pornography. The experiment was impossible to conduct.

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