Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as God’s People, Going Out in God’s Name, by Ruth A. Meyers. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014. 242 pp. $21.74. Ruth A. Meyers earned an undergraduate degree in special education from Syracuse …
From Whom No Secrets Are Hid: Introducing the Psalms, by Walter Brueggemann. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014. 194 pp. $23.75. The Psalms have been a staple in corporate worship, Jewish and Christian, for thousands of years. However, do …
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God Dwells among Us: Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth, by G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014. 211 pp. $17.00. Gregory Beale is currently a professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology …
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Praying and Believing in Early Christianity: The Interplay between Christian Worship and Doctrine, by Maxwell E. Johnson. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2013. 148 pp. $19.95. Prosper of Aquitaine once wrote that “the law of prayer should establish a law for …
Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts, by Jerram Barrs. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013. 192 pp. $17.99. “The arts need no justification; they are good gifts of God, a basic part of the creation order. Our calling …
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Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis, by John Piper. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014. 160 pp. $19.99. In Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power …
Encountering God Together: Leading Worship Services that Honor God, Minister to His People, and Build His Church, by David G. Peterson. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2014. 191 pp. $13.20. “The Holy Spirit gifts God’s people in various ways …
The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane, by Christopher Partridge. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 368 pp. $24.95. “Transgressive edge-work,” “liminal boundaries,” and “rejected-peripheries”—these are the words Christopher Partridge uses to describe the significance of …
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Art and Music: A Student’s Guide, by Paul Munson and Joshua Farris Drake. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014. 112 pp. $8.87. Modern Christians are inundated with art and music, but they rarely know how to think about them from a Christian …
The Nursery of the Holy Spirit: Welcoming Children in Worship, by Daniel R. Hyde. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2014. 69 pp. $13.00. Daniel Hyde has set out to address the role of children in the corporate worship of the …
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