Dec
26
2007
2007: The Year in (Book) Review
2007 was a landmark year for me as a reader. I finally accomplished my goal of reading 100 books in a year. I reviewed the majority of these books here at Kingdom People. In case you’d like to catch a quick glimpse of the books I read and reviewed in 2007, here’s the list. Tomorrow, I’ll list my Top Ten Favorite Reads of 2007.
10 Things I Wish Jesus Never Said – Victor Kuligin
3:16 – The Numbers of Hope - Max Lucado
A Community Called Atonement – Scot McKnight
A Concise History of Christian Thought – Tony Lane
A Mind for God – James Emery White
A Reformation Debate – John Calvin, Jacopo Sadoleto
A Reformation Reader – Dennis Janz
A.D. 33 – The Year that Changes the World – Colin Duriez
Advanced Strategic Planning – Aubrey Malphurs
Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World - Robert Webber
The Apocalypse Code – Hank Hanegraaff
Baptist Sacramentalism – Anthony Cross, editor
Believer’s Baptism – Thomas Schreiner, Shawn Wright, others
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
By Faith Alone: Answering the Challenges to the Doctrine of Justification – Guy Waters, Gary Johnson
Calvin for Armchair Theologians – Christopher Elwood
Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport – Richard Mouw
The Chamber – John Grisham
Christ-Based Leadership – David Stark
The Christian and the Pharisee – R.T. Kendall, David Rosen
Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire – Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat
Confessions – Augustine (Summary Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
Disciplines of a Godly Man – R. Kent Hughes
Empowered Church Leadership – Brian Dodd
Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine to Aquinas – Curtis Chang
The European Reformations – Carter Lindberg
Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? – Wayne Grudem
Evil and the Justice of God – N.T. Wright
The Future of Justification: A Response to N.T. Wright – John Piper
God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible – Vaughan Roberts
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus – Marvin Meyer
Great Leader, Great Teacher – Gary Bredfeldt (Review Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Inside Narnia – Devin Brown
The Irresistible Revolution – Shane Claiborne
Is Belief in God Good, Bad, or Irrelevant? – Preston Jones, editor
Is Jesus the Only Savior? - Ronald Nash
Jesus Mean and Wild – Mark Galli
Judas and the Gospel of Jesus – N.T. Wright
Leading from the Second Chair – Mike Bonem, Roger Patterson
Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches – Mark Driscoll, Dan Kimball, others
Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshipping Community – Simon Chan
Love is All Around: The Making of the Mary Tyler Moore Show – Robert Alley
Love Your God with All Your Mind – J.P. Mooreland (Review Part 1, Part 2)
Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings – Timothy Lull
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War – Nathaniel Philbrick
The Narrated Bible in Chronological Order
Night – Elie Wiesel
Our Sufficiency in Christ – John MacArthur
The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House – Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
Readings in the History of Christian Theology: Volume 1 – William Placher
The Secret Message of Jesus – Brian McLaren
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ - John Piper
Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life – R. Kent Hughes
Simple Church – Thom Rainer & Eric Geiger (Review Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
The Soul of Christianity – Huston Smith
Spiritual Leadership – J. Oswald Sanders
The Story of Christianity – Justo Gonzales
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God – John Piper, Justin Taylor, others
Surprised by Jesus – Tim Stafford
Taken By Communion: How the Lord’s Supper Nourishes the Soul - Dan Schmidt
Theologians of the Baptist Tradition – David Dockery, Timothy George
Theology of the Reformers – Timothy George
Tozer on Worship and Entertainment - A.W. Tozer
Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper – Counterpoints series
The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism – Carl F.H. Henry
What Do They Hear? Bridging the Gap Between Pulpit and Pew – Mark Allan Powell
What is a Healthy Church? - Mark Dever
When God Builds a Church – Bob Russell
Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing - Patricia T. O’Conner
Worship Seeking Understanding – John Witvliet