My favorite Books of 2024
My Favorite Books of 2024 Daily Doctrine by Kevin DeYoung This is my pick for the Book of the Year. DeYoung has taken a rather unique and refreshing approach to a volume of systematic theology. It is composed as…
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Gentle and Lowly In Light of a Few Years
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (Crossway, 2020), by Dane Ortlund, has been very well received in the broader Reformed and evangelical world. I was asked to review this book years ago, but it seemed that…
Markos Reviews Truth Changes Everything
Truth Changes Everything: How People of Faith Can Transform the World in Times of Crisis by Jeff Myers Baker, 2022 256 pages, paper, $17.99 We have all heard or read the alarming statistics. Children from Christian homes, it seems,…
Another Commentary on Romans?
Expository Outlines & Observations on Romans: Hints and Helps for Preachers and Teachers. Ross-shire: Mentor, 2023 Rob Ventura If you walked into any pastor’s study and started looking through his library, you would find that his section on Paul’s letter…
Review: Crossway’s Owen, vol. 7
Crossway’s newly published Volume 7 of Owen’s Complete Works is made up of two treatises: The Reason of Faith (p.71-208) and The Causes, Ways, and Means of Understanding the Mind of God (p. 209-349).…
The Scandal of Undisciplined Disciples: Making Church Discipline Edifying. James Durham.
The Scandal of Undisciplined Disciples: Making Church Discipline Edifying. James Durham. Reformation Heritage Books, 2022. 165 pp. Softcover. $14. The dying words of Rev. James Durham (1622-1658)[1] was his major writing on the vital need for proper ecclesiastical disciplinary procedures…
The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology
The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology By Paul R. Rovang Lexington Books, 2023 224 pages, hardcover, $100.00 Although many of the great Christian apologists of the twentieth century—Lee Strobel, Josh McDowell, Chuck Colson—converted directly from…
Eros, Anxiety, Narcissism, and Sensus Plenior…
I have been doing a lot of reading over here and very little posting. I’m currently enjoying a lot of research on a new project I am working on, which has taken me from writing much on the blog. But…
Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends Them
Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community’s memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the…
Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends Them
Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community’s memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the…