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Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton

W. Andrew Hoffecker, Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton (P&R Publishing, 2011), 460pp. Introduction One hardly needs to say that having two biographies on the same historical figure published within the same year (2011) invites comparison between the two works. Of…

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The Hunger Games

A Review of The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2010)  The Premise The Hunger Games trilogy (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins is a current publishing phenomenon which is now a cinematic phenomenon as…

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J.V. Fesko, Galatians

J. V. Fesko, Galatians (Tolle Lege Press, 2012), xxvii + 180 pp. In the last few decades, there has been a revival of lectio continua preaching, which is beginning to produce a harvest of expository commentaries. This can only have…

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The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon

Steven J. Lawson, The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon (Orlando, FL: Reformation Trust, 2012). 127 pages.  Introduction Some years ago, Dr. Al Mohler observed that, “We read biographies because worthy portraits of our fellow human beings help us to make…

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The Explicit Gospel

Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson, The Explicit Gospel. Crossway: Wheaton, IL, 2012. 229 pages. Introduction The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler with Jared C. Wilson joins the increasingly fashionable array of books on the gospel. Among several others in that…

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John Piper, Bloodlines

John Piper, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (Crossway 2011, 295 pp.) There are fewer things more distressing than racial division within the Christian church.  Yet racial division has plagued the church from the beginning.  Whether one considers the apparent antagonism…

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How Jesus Runs the Church

Guy Prentiss Waters, How Jesus Runs the Church (Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing, 2011, 178 pp.) The foreword to this very timely and useful book was written by Dr. T. David Gordon. He relates that, for approximately a decade, he taught…

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Union with Christ

Robert Letham, Union with Christ: In Scripture, History, and Theology (P&R Publishing, 2011), xii + 164 pp. In this volume Robert Letham takes up the grandest of all salvation truths, the Christian’s union with Christ. After a short introduction, the…

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The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams

The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams by Heath Lambert (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011)   It may surprise some that the brief history of biblical counseling is a complex one considering its fairly straightforward premise that the Bible is the sufficient…