Book Reviews

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 people’s theological radar screen.  But, as Beeke and Smalley ably contend, it […]

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Book Review – Denied Desires: The Upward Integrity of God’s Servant Job and Why Decisions Matter

Matthew Fretwell and I met at a class on pastoral theology in 2011 when we were students at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. Matt was one of the first people I asked to write on Servants of Grace when I made the decision to add more writers to the team of Servants of Grace. While Matt

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Book Review – Torn to Heal: God’s Good Purpose in Suffering

Mention the word “suffering” and people are likely to think of a thousand things.  When I think of suffering I think of my recent experience with losing three family members and my father being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. Suffering I’ve come to realize isn’t any fun while you are going through it, but it does

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Book Review – Encouragement for Today’s Pastors: Help from the Puritans

Ministry is very hard and demanding work. The Scriptures advise us to learn from the example of faithful ministers (Heb. 13:7). The Puritans were a group of such ministers whose teaching and living can be particularly encouraging to troubled and discouraged pastors today. They were steadfast in adhering to Scripture as the Word of God,

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Book Review – Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? A Surgeon-Scientist Examines the Evidence

Imagine with me for a second if a respected scientist whose been widely published in scholarly journals, lectured at prestigious universities and served in a prestigious role for the National Institutes of Healthy for twenty-six years wrote a book on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Thankfully we do not have to imagine this; we have

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