There’s nothing like a good debate to stir the juices and make you think! To listen to a bunch of intellectual heavyweights slugging it out verbally is more than just spectator sport, it’s a healthy exercise in personal mind-expansion. The…
Amazing Grace attempts to tell the story of the British MP, William Wilberforce, and his long crusade against the British slave trade. Wilberforce was born in Hull in 1759. The son of a merchant, he inherited his father’s wealth when…
Biographies of William Wilberforce regularly highlight his noble statesmanship and tireless efforts at reform. He is often labeled in those biographies as an activist who knew what he believed in and would not give up till he accomplished all he…
If poetry has any benefit at all for the Christian (and it does), then certainly one of its more valuable functions is to show us that things are not always straightforward and simple; that our lives are both complex and…
In the forward to Dr. Richard Pratt’s first book, Every Thought Captive, John Frame asserts that Reformed people are often strong in setting forth Biblical theories for apologetics but are “generally weak in training one another to do apologetics.” Frame…
C.S. Lewis once wrote that “it is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” This quote from Lewis is no off-handed ditty that…
It might sound strange to suggest that we need a dictionary devoted to the theological interpretation of the Bible, but Kevin J. Vanhoozer wagers that we do with the publication of Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (DTIB). A…
I cannot begin to express how many sympathetic back pats, mildly shaken heads and ever so slightly rolled eyes I have gotten at the news that I was reviewing a book on the apologetics of Francis Schaeffer. I must say…
Calvin’s sermons were delivered extempore, taken down by the remarkable Denis Raguenier, published by the diaconate of Geneva, and the proceeds used to support refugees. Initially, Calvin was not keen on them being published, but when he saw the level…
“Come beloved, listen for a moment to this!” preached Charles Spurgeon. “You have the milk of faith, but God wills that you should have this cream of assurance! He would increase your faith.”[1] The proven pastors and teachers who have…
