Lutheran Book Review

Maguire, Daniel C. Ethics: A Complete Method for Moral Choice. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010. 340 Pages. Paper. $35.00. www.fortresspress.com/maguire (LHP) Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Ethics (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works 6) . Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2009. 593 Pages. Paper. (Cloth also available.) $29.00. http://www.fortresspress.com/ (LHP) Baker, Robert C., General Editor. Roland Cap Ehlke, Editor. Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal. St. Louis, 2011. 302 Pages. Paper. $24.99.  www.cph.org (LHP) We live in a time where people often pick their ethics to fit the situation. The Baptized are given to be different. Christian worship must focus on Christ. Is it too much to ask for a Christian ethics to do the same? Apparently it is. Maguire's Ethics fails as "a complete method for moral choice" for it violates all of the Ten Commandments and mentions Jesus twice.  Only twice? In a Christian book? In a supposedly Christian book on morality and ethics?...

Korcok, Thomas. Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future. St. Louis: Concordia, 2011. 299 Pages. Paper. $39.99. www.cph.org (LHP) Korcok's Lutheran Education should be required reading at LCMS colleges, universities and seminaries. Our school teachers and pastors should intentionally make it a part of their continuing education reading for 2012. Dr. Korcok was the plenary speaker for the Tenth Conference of The Consortium for Classical and Lutheran Education in 2010. His doctoral thesis, Forward to the Past: A Study of the Development of the Liberal Arts i the Context of Confessional Lutheran Education with Special Reference to a Contemporary Application of Liberal Education , served as an outline of his presentation that summer. Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future , is a revision and improvement of his prior book. The liberal arts model has traditionally been preferred in Lutheran elementary classrooms. No other educational paradigm...

Smith, Matthew. Watch the Rising Day. Audio mp3 album. www.matthewsmith.us (H) Indelible Grace. The Hymn Sing: Live in Nashville.  Audio mp3 album. www.igracemusic.com (H)

Luntz, Frank I. Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business form Ordinary to Extraordinary. New York: Hyperion, 2011. 300 Pages. Cloth. $25 . 99. www.hyperionbooks.com (N) Wright, Bradley R. E., PhD. Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites...and Other Lies You've Been Told. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2010. 253 Pages. Paper. $14.99. www.bethanyhouse.com (LHP) A Contrasts Review is where we contrast different kinds of material to better understand each better. Frank Luntz's Win  is about communication and properly stating information. Bradley R. E. Wright's Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites is about correcting miscommunication and misinformation.  You probably know his name from his voter focus groups and "dial" from the Fox News Channel. We thought it would be interesting to see what a messaging expert had to say that might be of interest to the Church. From the New York Times bestselling author and top pollster Dr. Fra...

Red Mountain Music. All Things New . Birmingham, AL: Red Mountain Music, 2010. mp3 album download (and pdf songbook available separately). $10.00. (CD available for $12.00.) http://redmountainmusic.bandcamp.com /  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/redmountainmusic http://www.redmountainmusic.com/index.html   http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Mountain-Music/36451400335?sk=info   (H) Our continuing series on Hymnody's resurgence in American Christianity takes us to Birmingham, Alabama. Red Mountain Music has a connection to Red Mountain Church , a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America. The group's overall approach sounds very similar to that of David Potter and Hymns CXVI . Click on the links to read our reviews of their hymns.  To listen to portions of the album All Things New, see the embed below: <p><a href="http://redmountainmusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-things-new">All Things New...

NLT Study Bible (New Living Translation) . Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2008. 2488 Pages + 40 + Maps. Cloth.  $39.99. www.NLTStudyBible.com   www.newlivingtranslation.com   www.tyndale.com   (LHP) HCSB Study Bible (Holman Christian Standard Bible) . Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 2010. 2272 Pages plus maps. Cloth. $49.99. www.HCSBStudyBible.com   MyStudyBible.com (LHP) MacArthur, John, General Editor. The MacArthur Study Bible ESV. Wheaton: Crossway, 2010. 2102 Pages plus maps. Cloth. $44.99. www.crossway.org   www.esvbible.org   (P) Glo: The Bible for the Digital World . Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Immersion Digital, 2009. Multimedia. Four DVD-Rom discs. $89.99. www.Zondervan.com   BibleGlo.com (P) Some book reviews take longer than others. For example, a novel takes longer than a non-fiction book for me to read. Books where I have no concerns about the content provide quickly-written reviews. Resources that are strong but ...

Bramwell, T. Emmett. The Gift and the Defender . Independent. 2010. 267 Pages. (pdf edition reviewed.) Available in Kindle, paper, and cloth. Prices vary based on format. http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-gift-and-the-defender/14448487   http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Defender-Lumen-Legends-ebook/dp/B004AM5BDK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325021074&sr=8-2 (LHPN) Baldwin, Warren. Roaring Lions, Cracking Rocks, and Other Gems from Proverbs . (Ulysses, KS): Xlibris, 2009. 210 Pages. Paper. $15.00. http://warrenbaldwin.blogspot.com   http://www.warrentbaldwin.com/store (P) Palmer, Robert Leslie. Archibald Zwick and the Eight Towers . Bloomington, IN: Crossbooks Publishing/LifeWay, 2010. 251 Pages. Paper. $19.95. (Hardcover and e-books also available.) http://www.crossbooks.com (N) Palmer, Robert Leslie. Truth in the Eight Towers. Bloomington, IN: Crossbooks Publishing/LifeWay, 2011. 159 Pages. Paper. (Hardcover and e-books also available.) $13.95. http://ww...