The Shepherd of Hermas

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“The Shepherd of Hermas,” in The Apostolic Fathers, 2:2-305. Translated by Kirsopp Lake. Cambridge, MA: The Loeb Classical Library, 1977. Cloth. If you hate free grace, forgiveness, and divine compassion, you’ll love “The Shepherd of Hermas,” here printed in Greek and English on facing pages. A more legalistic, works-oriented allegory would be hard to come
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Help for the Small-Church Pastor

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Help for the Small-Church Pastor. By Steve R. Bierly. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995. 110 pp. Paper, $10.99. I really liked this book! As someone who has pastored two “small” churches now for almost 15 years, I read it thinking, “At last, someone in print who has walked in my moccasins!” At one level
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Jesus: His Life and Ministry

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Jesus: His Life and Ministry. By Derek Prime. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995. 280 pp. Paper, $10.99. Written with the lay person in mind, this book gives an overview of our Lord’s life and ministry. Its best features are the many helpful tools the author has included which equip the reader to “dig deeper” on
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Christianity’s Crisis in Evangelism: Going Where the People Are

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Christianity’s Crisis in Evangelism: Going Where the People Are. By Linda Raney Wright. Graham, OR: Vision House Publishing, 1995. 185 pp. Cloth, $14.99. This is an intensely practical discussion of reaching the lost in our day, written by a woman who is obviously an active soul-winner herself. This author is concerned—rightly it appears—with what she
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Chaos at Camp

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by Steve Elkins It was a week-long high school evangelistic camp—four hundred kids from all parts of the country. At the nightly counselors’ meeting one of the youth ministers questioned the speaker. “I don’t understand. Two nights ago my kids were sure they were Christians, now they’re not sure. I went over what you said
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Obedience to the Faith – Romans 1:5

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When I was six years old my parents enrolled me in a religious boys club. We played football, basketball, and baseball each weekend. One day each week after school we would meet for practice and for our “club meeting.” At the meeting we would receive religious instruction. I was taught that in order to be
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