Robert Withnow, After Heaven

Wuthnow, Robert After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950’s

(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998), 290 pages, hardcover, $29.95. Obtain from University of California Press, 510-642-4999.

Wuthnow chronicles the changing pattern of spirituality in the U.S. that began in the 1950’s and was nurtured in the 1960’s. He sees two very different forms of […]

Tim Wright, Contemporary Worship

Wright, TimContemporary Worship: A Sourcebook for Spirited-Traditional,

Contemporary Worship: A Sourcebook for Spirited-Traditional, Praise, and Seeker Services, (Abingdon Press, 1997) 187 pages, $19.95, Paperback. Obtain thru Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN 800-251-3320.

The title of the power packed resource book sums up whoever should read this book. Sixteen different authors fill this book with practical information. It […]

Tim Wright, The Prodigal Hugging Church

Wright, TimThe Prodigal Hugging Church

( Joy Resources, Ausburg Fortress, Minneapolis, MN, 2001) 63 pages, paperback. Obtain from Ausburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440.

By far the best case yet for the church unashamedly embracing culture in order to reach people for Christ. Tim Wright shows us how to evangelize by “hanging out” with the […]

Extraordinary Leaders in Extraordinary Times Vol. I

H. Stanley Woods (ed)
Errdmans 2006

One of the best books on leadership I’ve seen.  Although it is the book is an analysis of the responses of 700 church planters to a given survey, the conclusions can be used by any pastor in any situation. The book compares the responses of founding pastors who efforts resulted […]

Len Wilson, The Wired Church

Wilson, Len The Wired Church, Making Media Ministry

(CD-Rom included), (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1999), 176 pages, paperback, $19.95. Obtain from Abingdon Press, Nashville,TN.

Len Wilson is the staff at Ginghamsburg Church that is responsible for most of the in-house video support for worship. The book shares insights into many of the more practical issues facing […]

Joseph A. White, The Baby Boomer Bible Study

White, Joseph A. The Baby Boomer Bible Study

(White Diversified Engineering, Inc., 1996) 374 pages, paperback, 1 to 9 copies $19.95, 10 or more $17.95, Texas residents add 7.75%sales tax, shipping and handling $3.95 for the first book and $0.75 for each additional book. Obtain from White Diversified Engineering, Inc., P. O. Box 171084f, Arlington, […]

Margaret Wheatley, A Simpler Way

Wheatley, Margaret A Simpler Way

Those who have read Wheatley’s earlier book, Leadership and the New Science,” will benefit the most from this book. It is one of those rare books that lends itself to small group study because of the variety of meaning people will glean from it. A marvelous tool for small group […]

Robert Webber, The Younger Evangelicals

The Younger EvangelicalsRobert Webber

The Younger Evangelicals – Facing the Challenges of the New World, by Robert E. Webber (Grand Rapids, MI, Baker Books, a division of Baker Book House Company, 2002) 283 pages, paperback, $15.99. (Obtain from Baker Book House, PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516

This book will blow many of your stereotypes […]

Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Faith

Webber, Robert E.Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmo

Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World, by Robert E. Webber (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1999), 240 pages, paperback, $15.99. Obtain from Baker Book House Company, PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287.

Webber provides us with a concise picture of hot Classical Christianity and […]