After presenting the goals that the editor and authors aimed to accomplish with this series,...
Reviews
Book Review – Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament in Logos Bible Software Part 1
“The chief concern of the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (to be known as BECNT)...
Book Review – Taking God At His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me
Few issues are as important as the doctrine of Scripture. From the issue of biblical illiteracy,...
Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What that Means for You and Me
Kevin DeYoung’s Taking God at His Word is one of the most practical books about the Bible that I’ve ever read. Immensely specific in its applications, the book gives the believer added confidence in trusting, depending on, desiring, knowing, and studying God’s Word....
Book Review – Problems Of Christian Leadership
One of the central issues of our day is leadership. The decline of morality outside the church and the many scandals inside the Church among Christian leaders have caused many to question the importance and validity of the church. The real issue and one that is rarely...
Book Review – The New Calvinism Considered
I am a Calvinist, and have been for the greater part of my Christian life. In all honestly, I feel like I am a somewhat unique breed of a Calvinist (at least in the Southeastern United States) since I don't mind being labeled as one even though I don't agree with John...
Review of “Five Points” by John Piper
John Piper, Five Points: Towards a Deeper Experience of God’s Grace (Ross-Shire, UK: Christian Focus Publications, 2013). Ppb, 94 pgs. $8.99. Mark Dever, pastor of Capital Hill Baptist Church, recently articulated 12 sources God has used to reinvigorate Reformed...
Book Review – The Golden Years: Healthy Aging and The Older Adult
There is a sobering reality of one's mortality that kicks in when you read a book on healthcare, and especially when said book is focused on healthcare for people who are age 65 and up. The truth is that I am already in my 30's, so 65 no longer appears very old to me....
Book Review – The Morality of God in the Old Testament (Christian Answers to Hard Questions)
Beale's purpose in writing this book is to succinctly discuss "the problem of how God can be considered to be morally good, while at the same time he does things and commands people in the Old Testament to do things that do not appear to be good." Beale's question is...
Book Review – Boot Camp: Equipping Men with Integrity for Spiritual Warfare
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" is one of the few hymns that I sang as an unbeliever that I vividly remember. The battlefield imagery employed by the hymn was something that I could relate to because my father served in the military for over 20 years and I have other...
Book Review – Everyday Theology: Understanding the Ideas We Assume Are True
As a recent subscriber to Aaron's blog, Blogging Theologically, I had high hopes for this small book since Aaron's other writings are so theologically sound, and usually written in an easy-to-read manner. Everyday Theology did not disappoint in either one of those...
Book Review – A Hope Deferred: Adoption and the Fatherhood of God
The topic of adoption has really gained widespread attention in the Christian Community the past 10 years or so with guys like Dr. Russell Moore (former Dean of the School of Theology for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and current President of the Ethics &...
Book Review – Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin? (Christian Answers to Hard Questions)(Apologia)
Is the virgin birth of Christ important, and a necessary component, to the Christian message today, or was it a doctrine that the early "pre-scientific" believers held to but should not longer be supported because it is untenable for believers today? I think this is a...
Book Review – A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?
"Don't give up, don't ever give up!" Driscoll doesn't use those exact words in this book (it is actually a quote from Jim Valvano's famous cancer speech), but I think it sums up well the message that Driscoll wants to convey to true born-again believers everywhere....
A Review: “Prepared by Grace, for Grace” by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley
Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley, Prepared by Grace, for Grace: The Puritans on God’s Ordinary Way of Leading Sinners to Christ (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2013). 297 pages, paperback. That God “prepares” people to be saved probably isn’t on most...