Board Books for Children by Rebecca VanDoodewaard
Board Books for Children Reviewed by Kristin Stiles Rebecca VanDoodewaard’s new set of board books based on the lives of men and women of the faith is such a refreshing offering in the area of children’s Christian literature. Her…
Weekly Recap, April 7
This week, in an extensive review by Professor Tim Miller of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, we compare and contrast several exegetical guides on the New Testament. We’ve also an excellent interview with Joel Beeke on Christian assurance.
Book Notice: SPURGEON ON THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: ALIVE IN CHRIST, by Michael Reeves
Charles Spurgeon, widely hailed as the “Prince of Preachers,” is well known for his powerful preaching, gifted mind, and compelling personality. Over the course of nearly four decades at London’s famous New Park Street Chapel and Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon preached…
Book Notice: ONLY ONE WAY: CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN AN AGE OF INCLUSION (BEST OF PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE ON REFORMED THEOLOGY), edited by Richard D. Phillips and Michael L. Johnson
In our increasingly rootless culture, many people prefer questions over answers, hazy spirituality over concrete belief, and pluralism over the ultimate truth. Even some believers express this uncertainty—hesitant to assert that the gospel of Christ is the only true Good…
Book Notice: CHRIST FROM BEGINNING TO END: HOW THE FULL STORY OF SCRIPTURE REVEALS THE FULL GLORY OF CHRIST, by Stephen Wellum and Trent Hunter
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance By Fred Zaspel Steve Wellum has for some time been endeavoring to show us how the Bible hangs together – that it is a story about Jesus driven by the…
Crossway on Proverbs
Crossway Publishers wants you to become wise. And they want the book of Proverbs to get you there. Below are the excellent resources they provide. ESV Proverbs: Daily Wisdom TruTone Imitation Leather Proverbs are meant to be read slowly…
Weekly Recap March 31
Praying you all enjoy a blessed and happy Easter. He is risen!
Book Notice: GOD’S GRACE IN YOUR SUFFERING, by David Powlison
Where Is God? There are never quick fixes or easy answers when it comes to suffering. But even when we can’t immediately see God’s hand—when the struggle is hard and painful—he is working. Weaving together Scripture, personal stories, and the…
UNDERSTANDING THE TIMES: NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF D.A. CARSON, edited by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Robert W. Yarbrough
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance Okay, this goes back a few years, but somehow we have not yet noted it here on Books At a Glance, and we wanted to point our readers to it for…
My Coffee-Cup Meditations…
“My Coffee Cup Meditations are short, easy-to-read, Bible-based devotions to help you consider God’s greatness, the wonderful gospel of Jesus, and be better equipped for life here and hereafter.” That’s the short mission statement for these 144pp, 31-day devotional books by Roger…
Weekly Recap March 24
This week we took a deeper look at THE LAST ADAM: A THEOLOGY OF THE OBEDIENT LIFE OF JESUS IN THE GOSPELS by Brandon Crowe. We also updated our bibliography of the current discussion on Divine Simplicity, plus more!
Second Update to Divine Simplicity: A Bibliography of Reviews of and Responses to Reviews of James Dolezal’s ALL THAT IS IN GOD: EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN THEISM
Introduction James Dolezal, Assistant Professor in Cairn University’s School of Divinity, published a previous work on this area of theology, God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011), his 2011 Ph.D. dissertation at…
A Brief Book Notice: JESUS AND THE FUTURE: UNDERSTANDING WHAT HE TAUGHT ABOUT THE END TIMES, by Andreas J. Köstenberger, Alexander E. Stewart, and Apollo Makara
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance By Fred Zaspel Biblical eschatology is a notoriously thorny study, but it is surely a right-minded approach to allow the major, extensive biblical passages that are explicitly given to the…
LifeLine Mini-books: Real Help for Real People …
LifeLine Mini-books: Real Help for Real People … That’s how Shepherd Press describes the unique LifeLine mini-book series, a range of (so far) thirty little pocket- or purse-sized books, 6x4 inches, 64 pages, each with around 10,000 words of easy-to-read…
Weekly Recap, March 17
More daylight = more time to read books! Grab one of these and a good patio table this afternoon.
Two New Booklets from Reformation Heritage Books
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance How Should We Pray at Prayer Meeting? Here’s a little booklet that needed to be written – helpful, informed direction for making our corporate prayer meetings meaningful and rightly focused.…
Book Notice: DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE: BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ULTIMATE QUESTIONS, by Paul R. Williamson
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance We hope to follow up with more on this soon, but we wanted to give our readers a heads up on the newest addition to D.A. Carson’s (ed.) popular series, New…
Weekly Recap, March 10
This week’s summary is of George Eldon Ladd’s classic THE PRESENCE OF THE FUTURE; if it’s been on your to-read list for a while, get a head start with our summary.