Archive Spotlight – April 4, 2025

SEX AND VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE: A SURVEY OF EXPLICIT CONTENT IN THE HOLY BOOK, Joseph W. Smith III

About the Author Joseph W. Smith III has been a high school English teacher in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for over twenty years. Before that he worked at Simon & Schuster and has written over a thousand articles for the Williamsport Sun-Gazette…

CHANCE AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD: A GOD-CENTERED APPROACH TO PROBABILITY AND RANDOM EVENTS, by Vern Poythress

Reviewed by Mark Farnham Anyone who has ever contemplated the sovereignty of God and human choice has wrestled with the seeming contradictions of joining these two together. If God knows and ordains all that happens, doesn’t that make the universe…

Interview with James Sire, author of APOLOGETICS BEYOND REASON: WHY SEEING IS REALLY BELIEVING

Jim Sire has been writing on apologetics themes for a long time, and his work has been widely popular. The former senior editor at Intervarsity Press clearly loves his subject, and it is a pleasure to talk with him today…

Book Notice: DIVINE WILL AND HUMAN CHOICE: FREEDOM, CONTINGENCY, AND NECESSITY IN EARLY MODERN REFORMED THOUGHT, by Richard A. Muller

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance The relationship between divine providence and human freedom remains one of the most vexing topics in Christian theology. Many gravitate to extreme ends of the spectrum, with a version of hyper…

Book Notice: BIG PICTURE CRAFTS: 101 SIMPLE AND AMAZING CRAFTS TO HELP TEACH CHILDREN THE BIBLE, by Gail Schoonmaker

Easy-to-Make Crafts to Help Children See the Big Picture of the Bible This book is filled with 101 reproducible crafts suitable for children ages 3–10, each depicting a character, event, or object connected directly to a story in the Bible.…

Kristin Stiles' Review of GOD, YOU ARE: 20 PROMISES FROM THE PSALMS FOR KIDS, by William R. Osborne

A Book Review from Books At a Glance by Kristin Stiles   The Psalms present many attributes of God. Often these are portrayed in vivid imagery, but the meanings and nuances may be missed by children. Since they take things…