Weekly Recap, June 17

LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS: CALVIN: INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, VOLUMES 1 & 2

  A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance – Part 5 Editor’s Note:  This is Part 5 of our six-part summary of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. To catch up see Part 1, Part 2, Part…

Interview with Stephen J. Nichols, President of Reformation Bible College, concerning an Overview of the Reformation

Greetings! And welcome to Books At a Glance. I’m Fred Zaspel, and in honor of this 500th anniversary year of the Protestant Reformation we’re interviewing various church historians to track out the story for us in broad strokes and in…

Interview with Peter J. Gentry, author of HOW TO READ AND UNDERSTAND THE BIBLICAL PROPHETS

The Old Testament Prophets are perhaps not quite foreign to most Christians, but they are not usually the most familiar parts of the Bible to us either. And so it’s a happy occasion when a little book like this comes…

Interview with Tom Nettles: Forerunners of the Reformation  

Unless you’ve had no contact at all with the Christian blogosphere, you’re aware that this year, 2017, marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Hi, I’m Fred Zaspel, editor here at Books At a Glance, and we want take…

MEET MARTIN LUTHER: A SKETCH OF THE REFORMER'S LIFE, by Anthony T. Selvaggio

Review by Justin Pickup   “Your project must make an original contribution to the field of research.” Reading those words dramatically altered my plans during my first year of doctoral studies, and I had a moment of panic. The source…

THE GOSPEL: HOW THE CHURCH PORTRAYS THE BEAUTY OF CHRIST, by Raymond C. Ortlund, Jr.

Our generation is blessed to experience an increased desire to learn the Word of God in depth and specifically to see a large-scale return to gospel-centeredness in our churches. But this growing interest in understanding the gospel inevitably forces the…