Jan
01
2010
2009: The Year in (Book) Review
Frequent readers of Kingdom People know that I read and review a lot of books. In 2009, I reached my goal of reading 100 books, but I slowed down a little on posting reviews, opting towards the end of the year for shorter “book notes” reviews. Still, even with slower posting, I reviewed 79 books this year.
Here is an alphabetical list that links to all the books reviewed at Kingdom People in 2009. (Click to see the books reviewed in 2007 and 2008.)
1959: The Year Everything Changed – Fred Kaplan
Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World – David Wells (Introduction / Summary / Reflections)
According to Plan – Graeme Goldsworthy (Intro / Summary 1 / Summary 2 / Strengths / Further Questions)
Adopted for Life – Russell Moore
Are You the One Who is to Come? The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question – Michael Bird
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda – Catherine Claire Larson
The Associate – John Grisham
Baptists and the Bible – L. Russ Bush & Thomas Nettles
Brightsided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America – Barbara Ehrenreich
The Case for Life – Scott Klusendorf
Christ and Caesar: The Gospel and the Roman Empire in the Writings of Paul and Luke – Seyoon Kim
Christless Christianity – Michael Horton
Choosing to Cheat – Andy Stanley
The Chronological Study Bible – Thomas Nelson Publishers
A Community Called Taize - Jason Brian Santos
Counterfeit Gods – Tim Keller
Death by Love – Mark Driscoll
Deep Church – Jim Belcher
Desiring the Kingdom - James K. A. Smith
The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion – Pope Benedict XVI & Jürgen Habermas (Summary / Reflections)
Do Hard Things – Alex & Brett Harris
The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism – G.K. Beale
Essential Church: Reclaiming a Generation of Drop-Outs – Thom & Sam Rainer
Evangelicals Engaging Emergent – Various essays
The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis inside the Church – Christine Wicker
Fasting – Scot McKnight
Fearless – Max Lucado
Fool Moon Rising – Kristi Fluharty
Ford County – John Grisham
The God I Don’t Understand – Christopher Wright
God in the Whirlwind – Tim Ellsworth
Godology: Because Knowing God Changes Everything – Christian George
God’s Prayer Book: The Power and Pleasure of Praying the Psalms - Ben Patterson
Going Rogue – Sarah Palin
The Gospel of the Kingdom – George Eldon Ladd
A Guide to Adventures in Odyssey – Focus on the Family
The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman
How to Give Away Your Faith – Paul Little (Summary / Reflections)
Humility: True Greatness – C.J. Mahaney
Introducing Paul – Michael Bird
Is Rome the True Church? – Norm Geisler and Joshua Bethancourt
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter - Nancy Guthrie
Just Do Something! – Kevin DeYoung
Leading with Confidence - Bobb Biehl
Losing God: Clinging to Faith through Doubt and Depression – Matt Rogers
Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them – Ed Stetzer
Lost in Transmission: What Can We Know about the Words of Jesus? – Nick Perrin
The Lost World of Genesis One – John Walton
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip & Dan Heath
A Man of Books and a Man of the People: E.Y. Mullins and the Crisis of Moderate Southern Baptist Leadership – William Ellis
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer - James Swanson
A New Kind of Church – Aubrey Malphurs (Summary / Reflections)
The New Shape of World Christianity – Mark Noll
The Orthodox Study Bible – Thomas Nelson Publishers
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernism – Carl Raschke (Introduction / Summary / Reflections)
A Pastor’s Sketches – Ichabod Spencer (Intro / Strengths & Weaknesses / Lessons for Today)
Patron Saints for Postmoderns – Chris Armstrong
The Politics of Abortion – Anne Hendershott
Return to Rome – Francis Beckwith
Ripped Off: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music – Greg Kot
Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith – Bob Kellemen & Susan Ellis
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography – David Michaelis
The Shack – William Young
Show Them No Mercy: 4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide (Intro / One Answer / Other Answers / Reflections)
Southern Baptist Identity: An Evangelical Denomination Faces the Future – David Dockery
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: 1859-2009 – Gregory Wills
Spurgeon versus Hyper-Calvinism – Ian Murray
Tell the Truth – Will Metzger (Summary / Reflections)
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 – Milton Mayer
Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community – Tim Chester & Steve Timmis
That Hideous Strength – C.S. Lewis
Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture – Barry Hankins
Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World By Being Different – Tullian Tchividjian
Unpacking Forgiveness – Chris Brauns
W.H. Whitsitt: The Man and the Controversy – James Slatton
You are the Treasure that I Seek – Greg Dutcher
Your Jesus is Too Safe – Jared Wilson
Yours, Jack – C.S. Lewis