Book Notice: CATCHING FOXES: A GOSPEL-GUIDED JOURNEY TO MARRIAGE, by John Henderson
In this interactive study, biblical counselor John Henderson uses a workbook approach to guide you through your marriage preparation—helping you to understand the purpose of marriage, to handle conflict, to glorify Christ in your union and finances, and to get…
Book Notice: TEACHING TRUTH, TRAINING HEARTS: THE STUDY OF CATECHISMS IN BAPTIST LIFE (REVISED EDITION), by Thomas J. Nettles
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance By Fred Zaspel It would be impossible to calculate the massively wonderful impact of the catechism in the church throughout its centuries, and it is surely the loss of our…
Book Notice: JOHN OWEN: THE MAN AND HIS THEOLOGY, by Sinclair Ferguson, Robert Oliver, Graham Harrison (eds.)
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance John Owen (1616-1683) is recognized as the Prince of the Puritans, and his great collection of works demonstrate that the title is well-earned. It is truly remarkable that after these nearly…
Weekly Recap, March 3
Spring is right around the corner. . .why not use one of these books to pass your time indoors until it gets here?
Book Notice: PRODIGAL CHILDREN, by Robert D. Jones
If your adult child has embraced an ungodly lifestyle, you may be experiencing shock, confusion, anger, guilt, shame, loneliness—even despair. Biblical counselor Robert Jones brings the comfort of the gospel to this difficult situation, sympathetically providing biblical advice for this…
Bitesize Biographies from Evangelical Press
Bitesize Biographies from Evangelical Press Christian biography is famously wonderful food for the soul. But if you are one of the many who share the interest but can’t take the time for the 600 page studies, Bitesize Biographies from Evangelical…
Book Notice: THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT AND HUMAN FLOURISHING: A THEOLOGICAL COMMENTARY, by Jonathan T. Pennington
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance By Fred Zaspel Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) is widely recognized as of central importance for defining life in the Kingdom. It is a passage that has received…
Weekly Recap, Feb. 24
This week we began a two-week series summarizing Matthew Barrett’s REFORMATION THEOLOGY. Be sure to check it out!
Book Notice: THE CITY OF GOD AND THE GOAL OF CREATION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF THE CITY OF GOD, by T. Desmond Alexander
“For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.” –Hebrews 13:14 At the very heart of God’s plan for the world stands an extraordinary city. Beginning with the garden of Eden in Genesis…
Book Notice: REFORMATION THEOLOGY: A SYSTEMATIC SUMMARY, by Matthew Barrett
The year 2017 was marked by all things Reformation. Conferences, interviews, podcasts, and publications of all kinds commemorated the five hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s famous ninety-five theses and the birth of the great movement to recover the Christian gospel.…
Weekly Recap, Feb. 16
Don’t miss this week’s book notice, LOVE THY BODY by Nancy Pearcy, whom The Economist has hailed “America’s preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.”
Book Notice: LOVE THY BODY: ANSWERING HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT LIFE AND SEXUALITY, by Nancy R. Pearcey
Why the Call to Love Thy Body? To counter the hostility toward the human body and biological facts of life driving many of today's headline stories. Many people absorb pre-packaged media mantras on watershed moral issues without being aware of their hurtful…
Two New Booklets from P&R
Two practical and very helpful works on two very common areas of concern, each in bitesize length. In Prodigal Children Jones addresses Christian parents who grieve with concern over their wayward children who have left the faith. He offers specific…
Book Notice: KISS THE WAVE, by Dave Furman
“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” What does it mean to “kiss the wave?” These words, attributed to nineteenth-century British preacher Charles Spurgeon, speak to the Christian’s only hope for perseverance…
Weekly Recap, Feb. 10
This week: theology from a former slave, an excellent interview with Fred Sanders and Scott Swain, and a summary of sanctification and holiness.
First 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…
Book Notice: THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: THE 19TH CENTURY DEBATE OVER THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION, by J.V. Fesko
A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance Presbyterians at the turn of the twentieth century, both in American and abroad, were in theological turmoil, and demands for revision of the Westminster Confession were increasing. Voices such as…
Weekly Recap Feb. 3
Biblical theologies, a lesson in graciousness, and being an adult in America today. . .all this week from Books at a Glance.