Category Parchment Reviews

Is Your Church Ready?: Motivating Leaders to Live an Apologetic Life This compilation by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler is an excellent and easy-to-read summation of the importance of defending the Christian faith. The apostle Peter instructed believers to be…

Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth by Ben Shapiro While interesting, this tome by Shapiro (the nation’s youngest syndicated columnist at 20!) simply hashed over well-chewed food. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to observe what he has, although he…

What’s the best book on the cross you’ve ever read? Tim says that his is Frederick Leahy’s The Cross He Bore; however, in a recent entry, he reviews R.C. Sproul’s new book called The Truth of the Cross. He says…

Black by Ted Dekker Dekker begins this colorful trilogy with the novel Black and tells the story of a young, aimless 20-something who begins having dreams. Strange thing is, he can’t tell which is reality — and when he’s really…

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins It’s unusual for me to read as many “leadership” books as I’ve consumed over the past few months; however, Ryan and I as leaders of…

The Power of Team Leadership: Achieving Success Through Shared Responsibility (Barna Reports) by George Barna All I can really say is… “Yawn.” Barna simply writes too many books. This is probably way too unfair, but anyone who writes as many…

Stardust by Neil Gaiman I had high hopes for Stardust after Mark Wegley recommended it to me. I don’t know if it was my mood or just my expectations that caused this book to simply fall flat. I’ll give it…

Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China’s War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston So few believers today are aware of what shook Christendom in the year 1900. It was a shocking…