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THE SCRIPTURE CANNOT BE BROKEN: TWENTIETH CENTURY WRITINGS ON THE DOCTRINE OF INERRANCY, edited by John MacArthur

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction – John MacArthur 1 An Historian Looks at Inerrancy – Harold Lindsell 2 Apeitheo: Current Resistance to Biblical Inerrancy – J. Barton Payne…

GOOD & ANGRY: REDEEMING ANGER, IRRITATION, COMPLAINING, AND BITTERNESS, by David Powlison

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction Section 1: Our Experience 1. Angry People 2. Do You Have a Serious Problem with Anger? 3. How Does That Shoe Fit? Section…

THE BEGINNING AND END OF ALL THINGS: A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF CREATION AND NEW CREATION, by Edward W. Klink III

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction: God’s Creation Project 1 Creation’s Covenant 2 Creation’s Curse 3 Creation’s Confusion 4 Creation’s Country 5 Creation’s Cry 6 Creation’s Christ 7 Creation’s…

BEHOLD MY SERVANT: THE SERVANT SONGS OF ISAIAH, by Brian A. Russell

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction The First Servant Song: Jehovah introduces His messianic Servant (Isa. 42:1-9) The Second Servant Song: The Servant’s calling and work (Isa. 49:1-7) The…

THE CHURCH: AN INTRODUCTION, by Gregg Allison

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: Foundational Issues 1 The Triune God and the Church 2 The Church according to Scripture Part 2: Mere Ecclesiology and More…

THE GOD-BREATHED SCRIPTURE, by Edward J. Young

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   It is natural for Christians to turn to 2 Timothy 3:16 for their doctrine of the Divine authorship of Scripture, but this practice is often met with…

THE ATONEMENT: AN INTRODUCTION, by Jeremy Treat

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction: The Foolishness of the Gospel 1 The Story of Atonement: From a Garden to a Kingdom 2 The Heart of Atonement: The Great…

WONDERFULLY MADE: A PROTESTANT THEOLOGY OF THE BODY, by John W. Kleinig

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Flynn Evans   About the Author John W. Kleinig (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a retired lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, having served there from 1982 to 2009, and is…

CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (SECOND EDITION): A COMPREHENSIVE CASE FOR BIBLICAL FAITH, by Douglas Groothuis

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Editor’s Note: Doug Groothuis’s Christian Apologetics has seen wide use for some years, and now it is available in its second edition. We offer here a summary…

THE CASE FOR LIFE: EQUIPPING CHRISTIANS TO ENGAGE THE CULTURE, by Scott Klusendorf (Smith)

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Joshua K. Smith    Overview “The Case for Life” is a comprehensive guide designed to equip Christians with the knowledge and skills to effectively engage the culture on the issue…

THE GOSPEL AND THE MIND: RECOVERING AND SHAPING THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, by Bradley G. Green

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction 1 Creation and the Importance of the Past 2 The Centrality of a Telos to All Things 3 Understanding and the Cross 4…

A PRAYING CHURCH: BECOMING A PEOPLE OF HOPE IN A DISCOURAGING WORLD, by Paul E. Miller (West)

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Part 1: Why Pray Together? 1 A Glimpse of a Praying Community 2 Who Killed the Prayer Meeting? 3 The Missing Spirit of Jesus…

IT’S NOT LIKE BEING BLACK: HOW SEXUAL ACTIVISTS HIJACKED THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction: The Key to Pandora’s Box Section One: The Myth of the “Sexual Minority” 1 The Making of the Myth 2 Loving v. Virginia…

TURNING POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM, edited by Heath W. Carter and Laura Rominger Porter

A “Bonus” Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance    Overview of the Book Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism consists of a collection of twelve essays by prominent historians, spotlighting the major “turning points” that shaped…

CULTURAL COUNTERFEITS: CONFRONTING FIVE EMPTY PROMISES OF OUR AGE AND HOW WE WERE MADE FOR SO MUCH MORE, by Jen Oshman

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance  by Kirsten Birkett    About the Author  Jen Oshman is an author, missionary, pastor’s wife, blogger, and podcaster. She served as a missionary with Cadence International in Okinawa, Japan, and with…

THE DOMINANCE OF EVANGELICALISM: THE AGE OF SPURGEON AND MOODY, by David W. Bebbington

A “Bonus” Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance    Overview and Thesis Bebbington, expanding his influential History of Evangelicalism series, profiles the mid- to late-19th-century era—spanning roughly 1850 to 1900—as a period when evangelicalism became a dominant religious…