Archive Spotlight – January 5, 2024

'RETURN TO ME': A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF REPENTANCE, by Mark J. Boda

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance By Steve West   About the Author Mark J. Boda is Professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College and Professor in the Faculty of Theology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,…

ALL LIFE BELONGS TO GOD by Erkki Koskenniemi

Reviewed by Michael A.G. Haykin This extremely slim book by an adjunct professor of New Testament at the University of Helsinki and at Åbo Akademi University, sheds light on an enormously weighty subject: what does it mean to be human?…

David Murray: Author of JESUS ON EVERY PAGE

Dr. David Murray is professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and Pastor of Grand Rapids Free Reformed Church (Grand Rapids, MI) and author of the new Jesus On Every Page: Ten Simple Ways to…

Book Notice: LOGOS – A HANDBOOK ON THE PSALMS, by Robert G. Bratcher and William D. Reyburn

A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance By Fred Zaspel   If you preach from the Psalms, this is perhaps the best $15.00 you could spend for a close understanding of the biblical text. The print version is…

Book Notice: WHAT IS MAN?: ADAM, ALIEN, OR APE?, by Edgar Andrews

A Brief Book Notice from Books at a Glance   In 1906, American humorist Mark Twain published a sixty-page essay entitled “What is man?” Consisting of an interminable dialogue between a senior citizen (who believes that man is just a…

AMAZING GRACE, by Brian & Sarah Najapfour

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Kristin Stiles   Not only do many hymns of the Christian faith have wonderful theological content, but so many of them have very interesting back stories. Blind Fanny Crosby wrote about…