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ESV Reader’s Bible Sample PDF
Crossway has finally put out a sample PDF of their upcoming Reader's Bible. I've been checking the page compulsively for some months, but I can't say how long the PDF has been up. I'm also not quite sure what to think, because the PDF includes enough of Genesis to...
Review: Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief by John M. Frame My rating: 4 of 5 stars When a systematic theology begins with a series of endorsements that are longer than certain other systematics, you know you’ve got either a goldmine or a naked emperor....
Review: Christ and Culture Revisited
Christ and Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Carson serves up reminder after reminder that the question of context is all-important both in the interpretation of scripture and in its application to our current situation(s). Where Niebuhr is a...
Review: Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power
Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power by Andy Crouch My rating: 4 of 5 stars Andy Crouch’s title Playing God has a double meaning. 1) Idols play God by lording it over and ultimately enslaving those underneath their sway. 2) But this doesn’t mean playing God is...
Kidner
I just love Derek Kidner. This morning I was reading Psalm 89—the great psalm affirming the Davidic covenant—and I wanted some insight, so I sought him out. I wasn't disappointed: The foundation to this psalm is the great prophecy of 2 Samuel 7:4–17, at the heart of...
Alan Jacobs: The Hermeneutics of Love
Anything combining love and epistemology fascinates me, so I've thought of the following excerpt from Alan Jacobs' challenging book A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love many times. If he or his publisher believes that including an excerpt of this length (I...
ESV Study Bible Online—FREE for Limited Time
I use the ESV website 15-50 times a day, and having the ESV Study Bible as part of it is regularly valuable. Click here to get it for free as part of Crossway's 75th anniversary celebration.
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ESV Reader’s Bible
Manifesto signatories, our voice has been heard! I'm super excited for the May, 2014 release! Crossway even used the title we suggested: "Reader's Bible." I'm going to try to figure out how this came about and whether our manifesto made any difference or was just...
Review: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B.R. Myers My rating: 3 of 5 stars I'm not qualified to offer an evaluation of the book, per se; I've never read a contrary viewpoint (unless you count Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy—but...
Review: Crazy Busy, by Kevin DeYoung
What do you get when you put together a gifted, kind of techie young communicator from the culturally conservative end of the neo-Reformed spectrum with a contemporary topic like our culture's crazy busyness? This book had the feel of one that wrote itself—to take...