Archive Spotlight – September 23rd

BORN THIS WAY?, by J. Alan Branch

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance About the Author Alan Branch, Ph.D. (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary), serves as Professor of Christian Ethics at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO, since 2001. He also currently serves…

Interview with Andrew T. Walker, author of GOD AND THE TRANSGENDER DEBATE

It’s a topic relatively few Christians across the centuries have been asked to address, but it’s one of the leading issues of our day. God and the Transgender Debate. I’m Fred Zaspel with Books At a Glance, and we’re talking…

THE BIBLE MADE IMPOSSIBLE: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture, by Christian Smith

Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel   Many Christians have puzzled over the fact that interpretations of Scripture differ so widely among equally devoted Christians, but few have pursued the question with the tenacity of Christian Smith in his The Bible…

WHOMEVER HE WILLS: A SURPRISING DISPLAY OF SOVEREIGN MERCY, edited by Matthew Barrett and Thomas Nettles

This excellent collection of essays is dedicated to the defense of the divine initiative in salvation and many of its attending concerns: The “five points” of Calvinism Monergism Compatibilism (the compatibility of determinism and human freedom) Divine sovereignty and evil…

Kristin Stiles' Review of CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON: WHO IS THE GREATEST?, by Catherine Mackenzie

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Kristin Stiles   The Little Lights series of biographies brings the lives of influential Christians to young readers. In her latest addition to this series, Catherine Mackenzie presents the life and…