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Date Author TitlePlacebo introduces a new series featuring Jevin Banks...
The Opposite of Art is a unique combination of parable and thriller...
The 13th Tribe takes Christian speculative fiction to new heights...
Frank Peretti got have found fame with
This Present Darkness, but
Illusion is his best work to date...
Erin Healey is best-known for co-authoring
Kiss and
Burn with Ted Dekker...
Lion of Babylon takes us to post-Saddam Iraq. Marc Royce's friend has been kidnapped, and Marc is determined to rescue his friend and untangle the web around the situation...
Steven James continues his Patrick Bowers thriller series with book five...
eFred : Fiction : 2011/08/26
Brad Whittington's superb coming of age "Fred" series is now available in eBook form...
Hell In A Briefcase is an action-packed thriller about terrorism coming to America...
The Mountains Bow Down is a first-person whodunit featuring FBI agent Raleigh Harmon, who finds her Alaskan cruise complicated by a dead body...
The Narnia Code is the BBC-commissioned documentary about Dr. Michael Ward's sometimes-controversial Planet Narnia thesis...
We are nearing the 400th anniversary of the venerable King James Version of the Bible...
Ted Dekker sinks his teeth into the vampire genre...
Mary-Ann Kirkby takes us into the world of Hutterites, a communal culture from the 16th century that is still thriving...
Michael Ward has unlocked the long-hidden key to unifying
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. This is a must-read for all Lewis fans and scholars...
Patrick Bowers, geospatial investigator for the FBI, stars in book four of the chess-themed thriller series by Steven James...
Next Man Up provides an insider's look at a year in the life of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens...
In Harm's Way is a romantic suspense novel, not my usual genre...
Powers is the engrossing follow-up to Olson's
Shade, introducing new main characters
Shade : Fiction : 2010/03/10
Shade instantly engrossed me with its supernaturally-flavored tale...
Starfire is the opening salvo of an ambitious sci-fi project...
Burn : Fiction : 2010/01/23
Ted Dekker and Erin Healy follow Kiss with another novel of suspense...
Ariel Allison weaves an enjoyable first novel around a clever attempt to steal the 45-carat Hope Diamond from the Smithsonian...
Guardian of the Flame is the third in Tracy Higley's Seven Wonders Novels, focused on Sophia, the woman charged with keeping the fire going in the lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt...
In his dystopian novel,
The Dark Man, author Marc Schooley creates a 1984-style world...
Double Minds combines two of my favorite interests--it's a suspense novel about the Christian music world...
This novel focuses on Hemiunu, architect of Khufu's Great Pyramid. As with
Shadow of Colossus, I was immediately drawn into the tale...
Gold of Kings is a decent treasure hunt thriller by Davis Bunn...
FBI environmental criminologist Patrick Bowers is back for the third book in a thriller series by Steven James...
Certain Jeopardy tells the story of a Special Ops team on a mission to Venezuela...
Book Five is called
Lunatic. Book Four ended as our heroes secured all seven Books of History, saving earth...
Last Breath is the sequel to
Always Watching,Brandilyn & Amberly Collins'youth fiction page-turner...
Brandilyn & Amberly Collins team up for a youth fiction page-turner...
Definitely one of Terri Blackstock's best suspense novels...
The series that introduced us to FBI environmental criminologist Patrick Bowers in The Pawn continues...
Steven James kicks off his FBI homicide trilogy with
The Pawn, an intense thriller...
The Justice Game is a tense court thriller in the Grisham vein...
The Betrayal powerfully brings to life a mysterious figure born half a millennium ago...
Brandilyn Collins has another suspense winner with Exposure...
The concept behind Tracy Higley's Seven Wonders series fascinated me immediately...
Perhaps Ted Dekker's best thriller yet; certainly the most disturbing...
John Hutchison, hero of
Deadfall, returns in this thriller...
This is a massive history of the KGB operating in the West...
Kyle Mango is a little lost as a freshman at Texas Tech until he meets the unpredicable Gretchen...
Kiss : Fiction : 2009/01/26
Ted Dekker collaborated with his long-time editor Erin Healy for
Kiss, a thriller with some Dean Koontz-style supernatural elements...
Emerging ideas on Christianity...
Deconstruction, emerging style...
Sinner is the culminating 10th (12th if you count
Skin and
House) novel in the Books of History/Circle/Project Showdown saga...
Blood Brothers is the sequel to
Dead Man's Rule, a thriller that introduced us to lawyer Ben Corbin...
Dead Man's Rule introduces us to Ben Corbin, a young Christian lawyer...
House of Wolves is the second in the August Adams adventure series...
Wind River takes us into the wilds of Wyoming, as an emotionally scarred Iraq vet fulfills a promise to take an elderly friend on one last fly-fishing trip...
When
All Through The Night arrived, I took one look at the cover and decided it wasn't for me...
In
Illuminated, archaeobibliogist August Adams solves puzzles hidden in the illuminations found in ancient Gutenberg Bibles...
This is a devotional-style book of short chapters about life on the mission field...
Reading any John Eldredge book is a frustrating exercise...
The Shack phenomenon has been raging through evangelical circles, with everyone from friends and former students to my mom reading it and discussing it with me...
Road to Nowhere is built around an unusual premise--the controversy that can arise from a proposal to build a new road...
Betrayed digs into the shadowy world of Central American policy...
David Wells (not the baseball pitcher) examines the state of evangelicalism...
The intense Kanner Lake series ends with
Amber Morn...
River Rising is Athol Dickson's Christy Award-winning novel set in 1927...
Brandilyn Collins ratchets up the intensity with
Crimson Eve, the third book in The Kanner Lake series...
Brandilyn Collins continues the Kanner Lake series in a supernatural vein with
Coral Moon...
The intelligent design controversy meets Iraqi unrest in
Fossil Hunter...
Winter Haven is another first-rate novel from Athol Dickson...
Beyond the Night is a romance that relies on flashbacks...
Adam : Fiction : 2008/03/27
Adam is definitely an improvement over
Skin...
John Grisham takes us into the world of legal politics in
The Appeal...
Garry Disher's
Writing Fiction offers useful tips for budding authors...
Zero : Non-Fiction : 2008/02/03
Zero examines the fascinating history of the concepts of zero and infinity...
Successful fiction author Brandilyn Collins shares some great ideas for developing characters...
Here's a great inside story about the 1980 Olympics hockey miracle...
Former Korn lead guitarist Brian "Head" Welch shares his amazing testimony...
Pierced For Our Transgressions should be required reading for all Christians...
A Hideous Beauty finds journalist Grant Austin dragged against his will into a conflict with some unusual overtones...
Ed Gungor adds a rather odd book to the collection of responses to
The Secret...
In High Places hooked me with its rock climbing subplot...
Veil of Fire tells a moving story based on the real Hinkley, Minnesota firestorm of 1894...
Fearless continues the superhero tale begun in
Relentless...
Forty to Life tells the story of a teen gang member who murders, thereby losing his own life to prison...
The Cure is not a biography of the band; rather, it is one of the better novels I've read in some time...
The Dead Whisper On blows away most Christian supernatural thrillers...
Demon : Fiction : 2007/06/21
Demon takes the Screwtape Letters concept in a whole new direction...
Our family first watched American Idol in 2006, and quickly became fans of Mandisa...
L'Abri : Non-Fiction : 2007/06/07
I finally visited L'Abri on March 20, 2007...
Sam Harris gained notoriety over the past few years as one of the leading new atheists...
Postmodern Times was written over a decade ago, yet remains current...
Simcha Jacobovici and James Cameron (
Titanic) recently teamed up to produce "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" special...
The Return concludes Austin Boyd's innovative "Mars Hill Classified" action/thriller/sci fi series...
Josef Mengele terrorized Auschwitz, sending thousands of prisoners to their deaths while whistling operatic airs...
Skin : Fiction : 2007/04/11
Ted Dekker explores the nature of beauty and evil with plot twists that will keep you guessing until the end...
My daughter Erika gave me Andrew Beaujon's
Body Piercing Saved My Life while I was visiting her in Switzerland...
Civilian contractor Thomas Hamill was wounded and captured in Iraq, but eventually escaped to freedom...
The Proof continues Austin Boyd's "Mars Hill Classified" action/thriller/sci fi series...
The Evidence kicks off the unique "Mars Hill Classified" action/thriller/sci fi series...
Tahn Dorn's trilogy concludes with
The Scarlet Trefoil...
In the second book of the Tahn series, Tahn Dorn has broken away from his past...
Tahn : Fiction : 2007/03/01
Tahn introduces us to Tahn Dorn, a young warrior in a fictional medieval land ...
The Heir is the first book I've received in the mail, read completely, and reviewed, all in the same day...
Widow Marie Koeppler returns to the Mennonite community of her youth...
A harrowing true survival story...
Reading book reviews can be a great source of humor...
Pulpit Crimes tackles deficiencies in preaching...
A well-meaning, but misguided, attempt to refute Calvinism...
Germ : Fiction : 2006/12/12
Robert Liparulo has created another brilliant page-turner...
Eats, Shoots & Leaves improbably became a best-seller despite its subtitle...
Relentless plunges you into a seemingly normal world populated by a few people with bizarre powers, not to mention new bodies...
In the tradition of Ted Dekker and Dean Koontz, newcomer T. L. Hines brings us a supernatural thriller...
Ihe Innocent Man recounts the tragic true story of Ron Williamson...
VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer uses two pigs to teach a Biblical lesson about God's love...
Me, Myself & Bob takes readers on a hilarious ride through the rise and fall of Big Idea...
True Genius is a biography of two-time Nobel Prize winner John Bardeen...
This short book offers an excellent introduction to Jonathan Edwards...
God Unplugged collects the stories of 44 celebrities who share their stories of coming to faith in Jesus Christ...
The Tattooed Rats is a youth novel set in the near future (2012), a time when religion has been outlawed...
Desert Solitaire recounts Abbey's time as a park ranger at Arches National Monumnet near Moab, Utah.
The Jesus of Suburbia is a worthwhile read, but I often found it to be frustrating...
Fighting For Dear Life filled me with disgust...
A Mile From Sunday introduces us to Jonna, a religion reporter in Denver who grew up in a hippy family...
Digital Fortress displays Dan Brown's interests in codes, puzzles and non-stop action...
Intensity lives up to its name...
Adelaide Piper draws us into the world of a Southern debutante in the late 80s...
The Road to Gandolfo departs from the usual Ludlum style...
Dr. Downing is on a crusade against modernism, and sees postmodernism as the temporary cure...
Pastor/author Mark Atteberry does a fine job of tackling the dumbest things Christians do...
Gilbert Tuhabonye is a world-class runner who was nearly killed in the 1993 Burundi genocide...
Emerging Churches offers an informative survey of the emerging church "conversation" in the words of the leaders...
Rob Bell has some good things to say, and he has other ideas that should trouble evangelicals...
The Husband quickly became one of my all-time favorite Koontz thrillers...
Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven But Nobody Wants To Die isn't really a book--it's more of a David Crowder*Book experience...
R.C. Sproul's brief book about worship clearly sets forth his views...
Hideaway grabs your attention in the few few pages and won't let go...
Matthew Ward was well-known as the brother part of the groundbacking 2nd Chapter of Acts...
Escape with Fred takes Mark Cloud through the 70s college experience...
Matt Kelly is obsessed with tracking down a killer, and as
Imposter unfolds, we're left wondering just how many imposters there are...
Tori Taff edits CCM Magazine's favorite Christian songs of the last three decades...
Bret Lott is the editor of this collection of quality short stories...
The third book in the Aloha Reef series,
Dangerous Depths features Leia Kahale and Bane Oana, brother of Kaia Oana from the first book...
The Daughters of Lancaster County series continues five years after the end of book two...
The series shifts focus in book two, picking up the story with a new main character four years after book one ends...
I surprised myself by enjoying the Daughters of Lancaster County series...
Hood : Fiction : 2006/08/28
Stephen R. Lawhead's latest series, The King Raven Trilogy, begins with eight-year-old Bran ap Brychan hunting a wild boar with his bow and a few arrows...
The Copper Scroll is the fourth in Joel C. Rosenberg's novels that seem to keep coming true...
Saint : Fiction : 2006/08/21
Ted Dekker has another hit on his hands with
Saint, the latest in the Project Showdown series...
Death by Suburb provides an interesting read, but I have my reservations...
Paige Williams is having a tough time getting settled in her new hometown in Idaho, and finding a body in her hot tub won't help...
A terrifying serial killer is on the rampage and the investigating FBI agents just may be next on the list...
Sports broadcasting legend Pat Summerall shares his fascinating life story...
The Begotten: A Novel of The Gifted draws the reader into a 14th-century Italian world where true believers fear the Inquisition but God is gathering a gifted group of followers to combat the growing evil inside and outside of the Church...
The First 90 Days of Marriage provides practical advice for newlyweds seeking to establish a strong Christian marriage...
Waking The Dead typifyies the Eldredge approach to spirituality...
To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father was a quick and interesting read...
The two authors of
Making Peace with a Dangerous God have written an interesting book that fits well with the emergent shift away from traditional evangelicalism to a more liberal approach to Scripture and theology...
What if the message of Jesus was good news--not just for Christians but also for Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, New Agers, agnostics, and atheists?
Greg Stier has a gift for reaching teenagers and encouraging them to share their faith...
Step aside, Mary Poppins! "Nanny of the Year" Michelle LaRowe will give you the tools you need for successfully parenting pre-schoolers...
Scott Smith's
Truth & The New Kind of Christian provides an excellent refutation of some common tenets of the emerging church...
High Calling both inspires and depresses...
Despite some rave reviews from others, I like Bob more than I like his novel...
Christianity and the Postmodern Turn collects thirteen essays on postmodernism and Christianity...
Journalist Jake Woods narrowly escapes death in a vehicle accident and then finds himself in harm's way as he seeks the truth about what really happened...
Tim Downs gets 2006 off to a terrifying start with
PlagueMaker, bringing the world of bioterror home...
Blue Like Jazz might appear to be a typically emerging church type of book, but it's not...
I've spent a lot of time critically reading emergent authors lately, I was eager to see Carson's perspective in
Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church...
Noted historian and professor Hans Rookmaaker (1922-1977) may have had the greatest influence on the arts of any Christian in the twentieth century...
The follow-up to
Distant Echoes keeps the action in Hawaii, but moves the focus from dolphin researcher Kaia Oana to volcanologist Annie Tagama and her family...
Too Small To Ignore wonderfully succeeds in telling a fascinating story while educating us about children...
Hawaii holds a mysterious allure for mainlanders...
Protagonist Val Haines finds himself in jail, suffering from amnesia and rising from the dead in the sense that he has a brand new start on life...
Frank Peretti is probably the leading author of thrillers written from a Christian perspective, with over 12 million books sold...
I'd seen Davis Bunn's books before, but never read one, perhaps because I mentally assigned him to the "Hallmark" section after noting that he co-authored a series with Janette Oke...
I tried to write a full-blown fourth review in my McLaren series, but I couldn't do it, at least not yet. If Brian McLaren has been prodding evangelicals a little in earlier books, this time he's swinging a bat at our heads...
My entire family was excited when we received a postcard in early 2002 announcing that Danny Oertli's new CD release concert would be at a church just minutes from our home...
Brian McLaren never misses an opportunity to denigrate fundamentalist Christianity, although I don't recall him ever clearly defining just what that might be...
When
A New Kind of Christian came out, I remember hearing enthusiastic praise from a relative. Soon after picking up and perusing the book, I realized that the content would be quite disagreeable to me--I make no claims of neutrality...
Jerry Jenkins has been a prolific author for years, but he finally hit it big when he wrote
Left Behind with Tim LaHaye...
Many have decried the shallow lyrics of contemporary Christian music, but Rich Wagner shows that there is much we can learn from in the music of artists like Caedmon's Call, Newsboys, Jars of Clay, Steven Curtis Chapman, Switchfoot, Third Day and others...
I don't read a lot of chick lit. I guess I didn't read any until
Dreaming in Black & White arrived...
Brian McLaren, whether he likes it or not, is the
de facto spokesman for the emergent church conversation (those in the emergent movement tend to dislike the term "movement.") As such, it is important to examine with care what he is proclaiming...
In our era of the world wide web putting boundless information at our fingertips, it can be both worthwhile and fascinating to look back at a time when news took weeks to travel between countries, if it traveled at all...
Protagonist Stephen Metcalfe is a rich American playboy with as strong a sense of integrity about truth and justice as he is morally weak around women...
Ray Blackston's "beach trilogy" concludes with the return of narrator Jay Jarvis from
Flabbergasted, the first book in the series...
Meet Me in the Meadow offers musings and information on 36 different wildflowers. While I'm not often inclined to read or review books designated as being for women...
I've been reading Michael Crichton since I came across The Andromeda Strain in the 1970s. While never as obsessive as, say, Tom Clancy, Crichton nonetheless always provides plenty of technical detail in his books...
If you're looking for a dark supernatural thriller written from a Christian perspective,
Winds of Evil--the first installment of
The Laodicea Chronicles--will keep you turning the pages...
Whatever Happened To The Reformation? offers up a valuable collection of essays about the state of evangelicalism...
A Time of Departing warns Christians about the dangers of centering or contemplative prayer ("the silence") and the growing appeal that elements of Eastern mysticism and New Age thought hold for many evangelicals...
Perspectives on Church Government is made up of an introduction followed by five essays defending various views of church polity. Each essay is followed by responses from the other four contributors...
Total Truth stands in stark contrast to the current postmodern fad in evangelical circles. Nancy Pearcy draws on the tradition of Frances Schaeffer as she skillfully examines the historical roots of evangelicalism and the connections to philosophy and science, including Darwinism...
Living with Fred does not disappoint--once again, Brad Whittington has captured the flavor of 1970's adolescence (which I know from experience, sadly enough)...
Rather than focusing on purported physical evidence for or against evolutionary theory, Cornelius Hunter examines the metaphysical underpinings of evolution...
Southern Storm is the second book in the
Cape Refuge suspense trilogy...
Cape Refuge is the first book of an exciting suspense trilogy.
Most Christians have heard of the legendary English preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), but few have an understanding of his core beliefs and the controversies that enveloped him late in life...
Typical of Kafka's work, the protoganist finds himself caught in a puzzling and terrifying dilemma...
Scripture Alone reflects the wisdom author James White has gleaned from numerous debates and discussions with Roman Catholics and Mormons, two very different groups who share the view that the Scriptures do not carry sufficient authority to be the rule of faith...
Ludlum veterans know what to expect--intrigue, a brave loner standing up to incredibly powerful forces of evil (often with Nazi ties), and an attractive but tough woman figuring into the mix at some point...
This series of essays honors Millard Erickson.
Bleachers happens to have a judge making a brief appearance, but football and regret over a life poorly lived are the focus of this short novel...
Gideon's Torch offers an insider's look at aspects of the political scene, and effectively conveys information about the pro-life cause...
The Qwest is a brief book targeting youth, although applicable to adults...
Nightmare Academy is the second in Peretti's Veritas (Latin for truth) Project series,
Doug Van Pelt's book features 20 selected interviews with mainstream rock stars...
Even though Scott Adams makes some statements that could be addressed apologetically, I read this book strictly for the humor...
Jon Krakauer, who gained fame with
Into Thin Air, has created another fascinating read...
Gillquist's book reads more like a travelogue than a justification for his move from parachurch evangelicalism to the Antiochian brand of Eastern Orthodox belief...
Rather than merely carrying on with the primary characters of
Flabbergasted, Blackston pulls a clever twist and narrates
A Delirious Summer with a brand-new character, Neal Rucker...
I first heard John Fischer's music when I was a young teenager...
This book was worthwile, but frustrating to read...
The following is a response to Dr. Archie Penner's published response to my review of his
Scientific Creationism in Perspective: Biblical Creation Defended...
The plot is intriguing in regards to the puzzles and twists and turns of the story, but the underlying concept is weak and unoriginal...
The latest buzzword in theological circles is
emergent...
Discernment, the ability to differentiate between true and partially true or false, seems to be fading away in the 21st century...
Wild at Heart has garnered a great deal of enthusiastic attention from diverse supporters over the past couple of years...
The hamlet of Fred, Texas becomes home to Mark Cloud, a 12-year-old preacher's kid who doesn't quite fit in...
Flabbergasted has a humorously flippant tone as it examines life in a church singles' group...
This is a two-part review. The main section deals systematically with Dr. Penner's book. The addendum addresses other reviews and my background as it relates to the book...
This book has generated plenty of discussion and controversy...
Stier presents viral evangelism, promoting the idea of a powerful holy epidemic spread by Christian "sneezers"...
Although Dave Tomlinson's
The Post-Evangelical appears
to have made its greatest impact in the UK, the mindset is familiar to North
Americans as well...
