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« Previous EntriesBook Review: Justification and Regeneration, by Charles Leiter
Monday, May 12th, 2008Synopsis: Dealing with the two major aspects of man’s sin problem before God – objective guilt and moral corruption – and the two major aspects of the redemptive work of Christ that overcome these problems, Justification and Regeneration, by Charles Leiter, is a book that explains in clear, simple, and eminently biblical terms the very […]
Book Review: Grandpa’s Box, by Starr Meade
Monday, February 25th, 2008Synopsis: Set in suburban, twenty-first century America, and yet ambitiously covering all of history in its scope, Grandpa’s Box, by Starr Meade, is a book that speaks to children from a venue that they understand, and tells them what they most urgently need to hear. This is, as the subtitle suggests, simply a retelling of […]
Book Review: The Jesus Storybook Bible, by Sally Lloyd-Jones
Friday, February 8th, 2008Synopsis: “Now, some people think the Bible is a book of rules….Other people think the Bible is a book of heroes…”, begins Sally Lloyd Jones, in The Jesus Storybook Bible; “but the Bible isn’t mainly about you and what you should be doing,” she continues: “It’s about God and what he has done”. This refreshing […]
Book Review: The Big Picture Story Bible, by David Helm
Friday, February 1st, 2008Synopsis: The Big Picture Story Bible, written by a gifted story-teller with an uncanny insight into childhood imagination, and illustrated by a talented child-at-heart, is for all its simplicity a rock-solid explanation of the big-picture message of the bible: the gospel story of Jesus Christ, promised and prepared for in the Old Testament, fulfilling all […]
Book Review: Understanding Dispensationalists, by Vern S. Poythress
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Synopsis: The discussion between dispensationalists, covenant theologians, and others on the wide spectrum in between, has been as energetic and voluminous as just about any other major theological controversy of this generation; and yet much of the time it seems that the two opposing parties are speaking past each other, and that the most watertight […]
Book Review: The Beauty of Holiness, by Philip H. Eveson
Monday, January 14th, 2008Synopsis: Although the book of Leviticus contains the foundational set of instructions – civil, ceremonial, and moral – for the entire Old Testament economy, and although it is an absolutely necessary backdrop for understanding the significance of the work of Christ (and hence it is likewise foundational for the entire New Testament economy); yet it […]
Book Review: “No One…”: When Jesus Says it, He Means it, by J. D. Wetterling
Monday, January 7th, 2008Synopsis: “No One…”: When Jesus Says it, He Means it, is a clear and helpful little book that occupies a unique place in a world of postmodern uncertainty and academic elitism. In a simple, unadorned, and yet heartfelt style, J.D. Wetterling gives a concise presentation of a handful of truths that are both rock-solid in […]
Book Review: Altogether Lovely, by Jonathan Edwards
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Synopsis: The American Puritan Jonathan Edwards is well known for his keen insight into theological matters, his brilliant rational mind and the logical precision with which he explores every question he encounters in the text of scripture, and the flame of soul-deep passion and ardor which those minute biblical explorations fuel. These characteristics are seen […]
Book Review: The Future of Justification, by John Piper
Friday, December 14th, 2007Synopsis: As unpleasant and heart-wrenching as controversy in the Church might be, it may nevertheless be put to very useful ends, when handled appropriately. The new ideas that become the subject of scrutiny may have some elements of truth by which to nuance more accurately the old, beloved doctrines. The refutation of all which rings […]
Book Review: The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification, by Walter Marshall
Thursday, January 11th, 2007Synopsis: Walter Marshall’s classic seventeenth-century treatment of the doctrine of sanctification lays out in clear and simple terms the means by which a Christian might be enabled to grow in holiness. His basic proposition may seem foreign to many modern believers, who are desperately striving to produce in themselves the fruits of obedience, and so […]
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