Lucy S.R. Austen, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2023), 611 pp. My late Aunt, Betty Steele used to urge me to read biographies, especially missionary biographies. In a strange irony, the latest biography on my reading list is Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S.R. Austen. The ironic twist is due to my late aunt’s acquaintance with […]
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Jesus Christ stands at the very center of human history. He has inspired and transformed millions of people from the small town of Nazareth to the great cities of the world. He has revolutionized the humble and humbled the affluent. Church historian Jaroslav Pelican writes, “Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about
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Where would you tell a new Christian to start in the Bible? It puzzled me as a young Christian why no one told me to start at the beginning, to start at Genesis. Then I read the first five books of the Bible and I understood why. Without the right helpers, those books leave believers
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Book Review of Leland Ryken and Todd Wilson (eds.) (2007). Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching in Honor of R. Kent Hughes. Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL. 287 pages by Adam Rasmussen When you love the church, you pray for your pastor. You want him to flourish under the Lordship of Christ in all of
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People have to go to experts for stuff. NBA fans lean on Adrian Wojnarowski for trades and free-agent moves. Tony Reinke tops the shortlist for Christians asking questions about technology. In God, Technology, and the Christian Life, Reinke provides a well-researched and ruthlessly biblical theology of technology, scattered with golden nuggets of helpful applications. Reinke
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Chris Martin is convinced that social media is changing those who use it. He believes the social internet (a term he uses interchangeably with social media) is one of the defining influences of human history. In the conclusion of his book Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media, Martin writes, “in the last
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When a small group from our church gathers to pray every week, we start by asking God to help us pray. Every Christian wants to pray, and we all ask the same question: How? We know we need help. So, when Jesus says, “you should pray like this” (Mt 6:9), we listen. What we know
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Kevin DeYoung has published another resource geared toward children helping them (and their parents) see the redemptive narrative from the Old Testament to the New Testament. I have DeYoung’s previous two shorter children’s works, and I have found them both helpful as supplemental resources for reading the Bible. His original children’s book, The Biggest Story:
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