UNDERSTANDING BAPTISM, by Bobby Jamieson
In this latest book in B&H’s Church Basics series (Jonathan Leeman, ed.) Bobby Jamieson presents the biblical teaching about baptism in brief, crisp overview. Chapter 1 What Is Baptism? Baptism is a church’s act of affirming and portraying a…
Weekly Recap March 12, 2016
This week’s summary was Grudem’s Business for the Glory of God, a crucial topic for everyone in the marketplace. We reviewed an important book on Catholic doctrine of Scripture, interviewed Kostenberger on his Women in the Church, and much more. Check…
PSALMS BY THE DAY: A NEW DEVOTIONAL TRANSLATION, by Alec Motyer
This wonderful new book from renowned Old Testament scholar – preacher Alec Motyer is sure to become your first “go-to” book on the Psalms! Foreword By Mark Dever One of the first – and still perhaps the best –…
Weekly Recap March 5, 2016
This week we summarized Daniel Strange’s Their Rock is Not Like Our Rock, which focuses on the variety of religions in the world from an OT perspective. It is truly an important book for thinking through the similarities between Israel’s religion…
IN MY PLACE CONDEMNED HE STOOD: CELEBRATING THE GLORY OF THE ATONEMENT, by J. I. Packer and Mark Dever
The following is taken from the Introduction by J.I. Packer, “Penal Substitution Revisited.” As Galatians 2:20 declares, his life of responsive faith was wholly formed and driven by the knowledge that his Savior had revealed divine love to him by…
THE ENDURING AUTHORITY OF THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES, edited by D. A. Carson
Check out this new standard work on the authority of Scripture from D.A. Carson & Co.! Table of Contents INTRODUCTION The Many Facets of the Current Discussion D. A. Carson HISTORICAL TOPICS “The Truth Above All Demonstration”: Scripture in the…
FOR A CONTINUING CHURCH: THE ROOTS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA, by Sean Lucas
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) wields an influence that is disproportionate to its age (formed December, 1973), and its story of rising Southern conservative concerns deserves telling. Its story is an important chapter in the history of American evangelicalism,…
Two Classic Works on Soteriology from Richard Gaffin
I have just again read through these two Gaffin classics and was reminded how valuable and important they are. Resurrection and Redemption is the reprint of Gaffin’s 1978 The Centrality of the Resurrection (Baker) which, if I understand correctly, was…
UNCHANGING WITNESS: THE CONSISTENT CHRISTIAN TEACHING ON HOMOSEXUALITY IN SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION, by S. Donald Fortson III and Rollin G. Grams
Among the many new books on the Bible and homosexuality this new volume makes a distinct contribution: it demonstrates in detail that the from the Old Testament to the first-century Jews to the New Testament to the early centuries of…
PREPOSITIONS AND THEOLOGY IN THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, by Murray Harris
All Greek students remember that prepositions can be a bit slippery, used as they are with varying nuances. And they have been cautioned against “theology by preposition.” Yet with all this duly noted, an understanding of prepositions remains very important…
BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF EVANGELICAL THEOLOGY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN S. FEINBERG, edited by Gregg R. Allison and Stephen J. Wellum
It’s a joy to make mention of this new festschrift in honor of the well-deserving John Feinberg, whose notable career – with its years of teaching and scores of publications along the way – has been marked by faithful theological…
GOD’S INERRANT WORD: AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SCRIPTURE, edited by John Warwick Montgomery
The question of authority is ever the ultimate question. Yet authority is precisely what our generation despises, and in such an atmosphere the claims of Scripture inevitably fall on bad times. But Scripture claims divine authority nonetheless, and as the…
THE LAW ABOVE THE LAW, by John Warwick Montgomery
Over one hundred years ago – before Watergate, junk bonds, Enron, or the Great Financial Crisis – the Supreme Court of the United States declared, “The foundation of a republic is the virtue of its citizens. As the foundation is…
JESUS, THE TEMPLE, AND THE COMING SON OF MAN: A COMMENTARY ON MARK 13, by Robert H. Stein
Despite the pivotal importance of Mark 13 in discussions of eschatology, Jesus’ famous discourse continues to puzzle us. Is he talking about the events of AD 70? Is he talking about the time of his second coming? Is he talking…
Announcing DO MORE BETTER: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRODUCTIVITY by Tim Challies
Tim Challies wants to improve your life. We all wish we could have another day or two in our week, or a few more hours in our day, but what we want is to be more productive. And in his…
14 Quotes from Brian Vickers’ JESUS’ BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS: PAUL’S THEOLOGY OF IMPUTATION
The doctrine of justification, so central to the gospel, has in our day become the focus of much debate and, with it, the still more central doctrine of imputation. In his Jesus’ Blood and Righteousness Brian Vickers vindicates the traditional…
THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: THE GOSPEL IN THE STORYLINE OF THE BIBLE, by Iain D. Campbell
For all the “little stories” you’ve heard from the Bible, do you understand its “big story”? Just what is the big story that ties all the little stories together? And how does that larger story inform the various episodes that…
Ten Quotes from Brian Vickers’ Justification By Grace
Ten Quotes God says to his creatures, “Have children, tame the earth, and rule over it.” There is work to be done in this good creation. It appears from the outset that there is a goal to reach. Presumably the…