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Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel At this late point in history we might think that a matter as fundamental as the character of Scripture has so long been settled that unanimous agreement is shared by all who call themselves Christian.…
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Reviewed by Jesse Scheumann Youngblood has written an excellent commentary on Jonah, entitled Jonah: God’s Scandalous Mercy in Zondervan’s new Old Testament (OT) commentary series, Hearing the Message of Scripture (HMS). Since this volume is one of the first two…
Reviewed by Michael Plato The British theorist and critic Raymond Williams once wrote a book titled simply Culture. What made it a remarkable read was, though he spent several hundred pages using the term, he never actually got around to…
Reviewed by Dr. Stephen Yuille The purpose of Zondervan’s Counterpoints series is to provide a forum for comparing different views on issues deemed important to Christians. Recognizing the recent surge of interest in the topic of spirituality, Counterpoints has produced…
Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel We in the older generation are still sometimes stunned at the advance of “Calvinism” witnessed in the last 30 or 35 years. That being “Reformed” should be considered cool is something most of us could…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd One of my Facebook friends, Janelle, was not looking forward to attending her district PTA meeting, but it wasn’t because of anything related to school issues. She lamented: I can’t say “District” anymore without thinking about…
Reviewed by Patrick Schreiner Summary Acting the Miracle had its start in the Desiring God 2012 National Conference. John Piper and company present five different chapters on the reformed view of sanctification. Mathis asserts the book is about what theologians…
Review by Jacob Shatzer Wheaton College’s Mark Amstutz provides a helpful angle for considering the interaction of evangelicals and politics. While there is no shortage of attention for evangelicals in relation to hot-button social issues such as abortion, less attention…
Reviewed by J. Stephen Yuille Referring to the doctrine of union with Christ, Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes, “If you have got hold of this idea you will have discovered the most glorious truth you will ever know in your life” (Romans:…
This book was a good idea. I’m not aware of another book that brings together daily meditations from the early church. The “church fathers” are largely unknown to most contemporary Christians, and when I saw this new book I was…
Review by Dr. Jon Pratt With this most recent addition to his list of books on the NT canon (see Canon Revisited [Crossway, 2012] and The Heresy of Orthodoxy [Crossway, 2012] coauthored with Andreas Köstenberger), Michael Kruger, professor of NT…
Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel John Frame has such a proven track record in matters of theology that when Reformed types see that he has at last produced a comprehensive textbook on systematic theology, it immediately makes its way onto…
Reviewed by Micah McCormick Bryan Chapell, long time pastor and seminary professor, writes Christ-Centered Sermons in order to provide examples of the principles he wrote about in his book, Christ-Centered Preaching. As such, Christ-Centered Sermons is essentially a collection of…
About the Author Trevin Wax is managing editor of The Gospel Project at LifeWay Christian Resources. Reviewed by John T. Jeffery This small and very readable work may be considered as an entry level introduction to an issue addressed by…
Review by Jacob Shatzer In these two new edited volumes, Joel Green and Jacqueline Lapsley have taken various essays from the large Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011) to make them more easily accessible for classroom or…
Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel For virtually all of its history until the most recent generations no one could have questioned that America was a Christian nation. Just how “Christian” it actually was is another question, of course, but religiously…
