The Itinerant Pulpit

My Reading List

Ok folks! It's always risky to put out a reading list because somebody will assume that you recommend any book in its entirety. I seldom read a book that I agree with in its entirety!! But I still think it is important to keep reading and learning, even if it is learning how to defend one's position against the opposition.

Having said that, I will put together this list in the hopes that it may give helpful information to one who may be looking. Keep in mind the previous paragraph please!!

Winter/Spring 2008

	Revival: A People Saturated with God by Brian Edwards.	This is the best book I have read to date on the subject of revival. It treats the subject accurately but with heart, and I especially appreciate his fair treatment of men God has used in revival who have held differing theological viewpoints than the author. I wrote a review for this book that is supposed to appear in Voice of the Evangelists. I will link to it when it becomes available.
no picture available	Back to Normal by Richard Flanders	Here is a shorter book but it is one that has the potential to reshape the revival landscape as many know it. From the first chapter, "What is Revival?" Flanders makes his case that revival is not something foisted upon the church without regard to their having met the biblical conditions. I have differences with this book, primarily in terminology, but I'm enjoying the read and would agree with much of it. I will be writing a response to it in time.
	Fools Gold? Discerning Truth in an Age of Error John MacArthur, general editor	A variety of subjects here. I am primarily concerned with the chapter dealing with the invitation. Entitled, "Just as I am: Invitations and Altar Calls," this chapter basically calls for the elimination of the invitation from our churches. I feel that its throwing the proverbial baby out with the bath water. You can read my two-part response beginning here: "The Biblical Place of the Invitation." Other chapters in this book are good, but that one chapter will hurt many churches by failing to distinguish between bad invitations and appropriate calls for action, lumping them all in together as "manipulative."
	Revival God's Way by Leonard Ravenhill	I've been enjoying some of Leonard Ravenhill's sermons online so I thought I would grab one of his books when I saw it at a clearance sale at a Bible college bookstore. I am in the middle of it now and enjoying it very much.
	Revival by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones	I have just gotten this one and haven't started it yet.
	Can We Rock the Gospel? by Dan Lucarini and John Blanchard	I heartily agree with this book, but it seems to be a lot of rehashing of stuff that I've read in other conservative music books. It's nice that it's an up-to-date look, but the music scene is changing so fast, this book may fall out of date quickly.