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Trevin Wax, Counterfeit Gospels

Trevin Wax, Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope, (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2011). Introduction If you asked ten different churchgoers to define the gospel, you may very well receive ten substantially different definitions. Increasingly, churchgoers…

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Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe (Crossway Publishers, 464 p). One of the tricky things with writing book reviews is not repeating what other reviewers have already said. A very fine article has already been published…

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Tullian Tchividjian, Jesus+Nothing=Everything

Even before the book came out, Jesus + Nothing = Everything had the perfect formula for a popular book: a catchy title that “just sounds right” (p. 25), an author with an intriguingly unique name (Tullian Tchividjian, pronounced cha-vi-jin), his…

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K. Scott Oliphint, God With Us

K. Scott Oliphint, God with Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God (Crossway, 2011). 304 pp. $16.50. Professor Scott Oliphint’s book, God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God, is a welcome addition to the Reformed, evangelical, and…

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John MacArthur:

Servant of the Word and Flock, by Iain H. Murray (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2011), HB 246 pages. In the concluding section of his first letter to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul challenges the brothers to “Be watchful, stand firm…

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Against the Tide

Miroslav Volf is a distinguished scholar. He is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and he is the director of the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture. His theological trajectory includes being the son…