New Resource ReviewFUEL2: Owning Your FaithVolume 8: Confronting Other Religions and CultsLifeWay Christian Resources, 2008, $159.99, www.lifeway.com/fuelIn our increasingly pluralistic culture, and with the co...

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Early ChristianityJ. Michael MatkinAlpha Books, 2008, 261 pp., $18.95, www.idiotsguide.comAfter McDonaldizationJohn DraneBaker Academic, 192 pp., $19.99, www.bakeracademic....

Simple Small GroupsBill SearchBaker Books, 2008, 185 pp., $13.99, www.bakerbooks.comSeeking God Together: An Introduction to Group Spiritual DirectionAlice FrylingInterVarsity Press, February 2009, 152 pp., $...

SinnerTed DekkerThomas Nelson, 2008, 374 pp., $24.99, www.thomasnelson.comHaving read Dekker’s Circle Trilogy (Black, Red, White), and two of his other books, THR3E and Obsessed, I picked up Sinner (thi...

What Size Are God’s Shoes?Tim SchenckMorehouse Publishing, 2008, 144 pp., $12.00, www.morehousepublishing.comHow can a trip through the McDonald’s drivethrough provide a moment of spiritual clarit...

1001 Quotations that Connect: Timeless Wisdom for Preaching, Teaching, and WritingCraig Brian Larson and Brian Lowery, editorsZondervan, 2009, 319 pp., $22.99, www.zondervan.comEveryone needs a good quote now...

The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Challenges to Christianity, Student EditionLee Strobel with Jane VogelZondervan/YouthSpecialities, 2008, 208 pp., $9.99, www.youthspecialities.co...

Mention the word hero and most people think you mean someone else, but author Neil Cole won’t let you dismiss the idea so readily. This book challenges each and every believer, irrespective of the ex...

The strength of Bringing Home the Prodigals creates a practical approach to dealing with, and defining, prodigals. Parsons calls his readers from paralyzing feelings of false guilt and judgment into the freedom...

A Comedian’s Guide to TheologyThor RamseyRegal, 2008, 234 pp., $12.99,www.regalbooks.comWhile this book has its humorous moments, the majority is a critical commentary on the idiosyncrasies, the ironies...