Author: Ronald J. Sider

Publisher: Zondervan (1994)

Binding: Paperback, 186 pages

Review: The author of the bestselling Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger now shows readers how to bridge the gap between evangelism and social ministry. Sider tells of ministries that not only led people to a saving Jesus Christ, but help them overcome social, economic, and political barriers.

Author: Mark Labberton

Publisher: IVP Books (2007)

Binding: Hardcover, 198 pages

Review: Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God's purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship. Too often, worship has become a place of safety and complacency. It can be a narrowly private experience in which solitary individuals express their personal adoration. Even when we gather corporately, we often close our eyes to those around us, focusing on God but ignoring our neighbour.But true biblical worship does not merely point us upward it should turn us outward as well.In this prophetic wake-up call for the contemporary church, pastor Mark Labberton reconnects Christian worship with social justice. From beginning to end, worship must do justice and seek righteousness, translating into transformed lives that care for the poor and the oppressed.Begin today to move beyond the comfort of safe worship to authentic worship that challenges injustice.Market/Audience

• Worship team participants and leaders
• Pastors
• Book clubs and book club readers

Features and Benefits

• Recovers the biblical unity of worship and justice
• Shows how social justice and care for the poor can flow out of action
• A passionate, prophetic and profoundly biblical call to action

Author: N. T. Wright

Publisher: IVP Books (2006)

Binding: Hardcover, 176 pages

Review: With every earthquake and war, understanding the nature of evil and our response to it becomes more urgent. Evil is no longer the concern just of ministers and theologians but also of politicians and the media. We hear of child abuse, ethnic cleansing, AIDS, torture and terrorism, and rightfully we are shocked. But, N. T. Wright says, we should not be surprised. For too long we have naively believed in the modern idea of human progress. In contrast, postmodern thinkers have rightly argued that evil is real, powerful and important, but they give no real clue as to what we should do about it. In fact, evil is more serious than either our culture or our theology has supposed. How then might Jesus' death be the culmination of the Old Testament solution to evil but on a wider and deeper scale than most imagine? Can we possibly envision a world in which we are delivered from evil? How might we work toward such a future through prayer and justice in the present? These are the powerful and pressing themes that N. T. Wright addresses in this book that is at once timely and timeless.