Book Notice: SAMUEL DAVIES: APOSTLE TO VIRGINIA, by Dewey Roberts
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance Samuel Davies: Apostle to Virginia by Dewey Roberts is the first full-scale biography ever produced on Samuel Davies, America’s greatest ever preacher. It is a meticulously researched work which presents the story…
Weekly Recap, May 12
Book Notice: IN HIS IMAGE: 10 WAYS GOD CALLS US TO REFLECT HIS CHARACTER, by Jen Wilkin
A Brief Book Notice from Books at a Glance Sometimes we ask What is God’s will for my life? when we should really be asking Who should I be? The Bible has an answer: Be like the very image of God. By exploring ten…
Book Notice: EXODUS (APOLLOS OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY), by T. Desmond Alexander
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance Alexander displays a thorough acquaintance with the text of Exodus itself as well as its theological bearing on the rest of Scripture. Deeply informed yet, despite its size, easily accessible…
Book Notice: FREE IN CHRIST: THE MESSAGE OF GALATIANS FOR TODAY, by Edgar Andrews
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance From the Back Cover Paul’s epistle to the Galatians can be summarized by one simple question: What is the gospel? What is the real gospel, as opposed to false gospels…
Weekly Recap, May 5
This week’s summary is a John Owen classic, and we’ve an excellent interview with T. Desmond Alexander. We also updated the MLK Bibliography we’ve been following and our previous review of Exegetical Guides to the New Testament.
Book Notice: PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD, by Vern S. Poythress
A Brief Book Notice from Books at a Glance This book has been out for a while now, but its topic is important enough that we want to recall your attention to it. We live in an atmosphere in which…
Third Update: MLK50: Thabiti Anyabwile, TGC, and the ERLC of the SBC. A Bibliography.
MLK50: Thabiti Anyabwile, TGC, and the ERLC of the SBC ~ A Bibliography ~ Editor’s Note: Many thanks again to our good friend Jack Jeffery – our favorite bibliographer! – for helping us track yet another online discussion. We hope…
Book Notice: THE LAST ADAM: A THEOLOGY OF THE OBEDIENT LIFE OF JESUS IN THE GOSPELS, by Brandon D. Crowe
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance Adam Christology, the doctrine of imputation, and studies in the active obedience of Christ are generally considered Pauline territory – and they are indeed! But Brandon Crowe doesn’t want you…
Book Notice: UNIVERSE: TIME, SPACE, LIFE, GOD: HOW THINGS FIT TOGETHER, by Nigel T. Faithfull
A New Book Notice from Books At a Glance From the Back Cover We inhabit a divinely created world which has been planned, tested, spoken to and visited by God’s angels—and by God the Son. God designed the universe…
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.…
Weekly Recap, April 28
We had a very exciting week with excellent content!
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: BAPTIST HISTORY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA: PERSONALITIES, POSITIONS, AND PRACTICES, by David Beale
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance We plan to feature this book more fully soon, but we wanted to give our readers a quick heads up on this new resource for Baptist history. David Beale, retired…
EASTER ENIGMA: ARE THE RESURRECTION ACCOUNTS IN CONFLICT?, by John Wenham
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance Five New Testament writers provide details of the narrative of Jesus’ resurrection: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. Harmonizing the various details each provides is enormously challenging, and Wenham gives…
Second Update: MLK50: Thabiti Anyabwile, TGC, and the ERLC of the SBC. A Bibliography.
MLK50: Thabiti Anyabwile, TGC, and the ERLC of the SBC ~ A Bibliography ~ Editor’s Note: Many thanks again to our good friend Jack Jeffery – our favorite bibliographer! – for helping us track yet another online discussion. We hope…
Weekly Recap, April 21
This week’s summary is of an excellent Biblical Theology of Jeremiah by Andrew Shead, and we’ve also updated all of the bibliographies we’re following.
Book Notice: THEOPHANY: A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF GOD’S APPEARING, by Vern S. Poythress
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance Each time God appears to his people throughout the Bible—in the form of a thunderstorm, a man, a warrior, a chariot, etc.—he comes to a specific person for a specific…