Weekly Recap Books At a Glance — 7.19.14

CAN WE STILL BELIEVE THE BIBLE? AN EVANGELICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH CONTEMPORARY QUESTIONS

About the Author Craig L. Blomberg (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary and the author or editor of numerous books, including A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, Jesus and the Gospels, and The…

GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN: A RESPONSE TO MATTHEW VINES, Albert Mohler, ed.

     This is a Bonus Summary for Members at Books At a Glance Chapter 1 God, the Gospel, and the Gay Challenge: A Response to Matthew Vines (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.) The issue of homosexuality is pressuring the church to…

BLOODLINES: RACE, CROSS, AND THE CHRISTIAN, by John Piper

Reviewed by Carl Muller John Piper is a man who has been wonderfully used of God to bless our generation. Even if you are not comfortable with the phrase “Christian hedonism” and find its mantra reductionistic (“God is most glorified…

WOMEN OF THE WORD: HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE WITH BOTH OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS, by Jen Wilkin

Reviewed by Aimee Byrd “The Bible does not want to be neatly packaged into three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day-increments” (75). No, no it doesn’t. But too often we think this is the only way to spending personal time in God’s Word. While we all…

Michael Bird, ed., HOW GOD BECAME JESUS: THE REAL ORIGINS OF BELIEF IN JESUS' DIVINE NATURE - A RESPONSE TO BART EHRMAN

It is not often that a book appears on the very same day as the book to which it is responding, but such is the case with Michael Bird’s (ed.) new How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief…

JOB: THE WISDOM OF THE CROSS, by Christopher Ash

First Impressions It’s not every day we see a new commentary on Job, and to see one released with the glowing endorsements that accompany Crossway’s newest addition to their Preaching the Word series is rare indeed. So I was eager…