Wondering About the Purpose Driven Church or Your Best Life Now?

If you've ever wanted a second opinion on the best selling books by Rick Warren (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate) Purpose Driven Church or the Purpose Driven Life check out here and here respectively.

If you are wondering about Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now see here. Here's a preview of the review to whet your appetite.

Someone might legitimately raise the question why we are reviewing this book. After all, the pattern here at 9Marks has been that we review Christian books.

I suppose we must be branching out now, because Joel Osteen’s Your Best Life Now is decidedly not one of those. Open the book to any random page, and you will likely find some mention of God or even a reference to Scripture. Yet that is just window-dressing.

When you wring the book out, what you end up with is nothing more than the soggy old self-help pop-psychology that people have been lapping up for a generation—with the word "God" thrown in every once in a while for good measure.