For one week, all of Crossway's e-books are $5.99. Even the massive Kingdom Through Covenant, normally $31 even as an e-book, is just six bucks. (I also elected to pick up Sojourners and Strangers.) I recommend spending some time looking through the long list of...
Books
Review: Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry by Paul David Tripp My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked this book for pastors (I'm sort of a pastor). I really did. It's an excellent book. But it gets three stars because, searching my heart of...
Review: Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism
Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism by R.C. Sproul Sproul begins his book with utter clarity: in the debate between Roman Catholicism and evangelical, Reformation Protestantism, the gospel itself is at stake. It takes him just a page and half to...
Review: A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts
A Brighter Witness: Conversations on the Christian and the Arts by Dwight Gustafson My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love Dr. Gustafson's choral (and other) compositions. I've sung them in German in Germany and in Polish in Poland. I've sung under Dr. Gus' baton as the great...
Review: Why Do We Baptize Infants?
Why Do We Baptize Infants? by Bryan Chapell My rating: 2 of 5 stars A Baptist can't give three stars to a book, even a good one, arguing for infant baptism. But if all I were evaluating was clarity and brevity, Chapell might actually get four stars. His thesis is...
Materialist Dogma
Alvin Plantinga on the new iconoclastic book by philosopher Thomas F. Nagel: [Nagel has] performed an important service with his withering critical examination of some of the most common and oppressive dogmas of our age. Read the whole review.
Review: Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission
Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission by Tim Chester My rating: 4 of 5 stars The times they are a changin’. If America ever was a Christian nation, it certainly isn’t one now. It would do us good, therefore, to listen to conservative Christians whose nation...
Review: Charles Hodge: New Sideold School Presbyterian
Charles Hodge: New Sideold School Presbyterian by Andrew W. Hoffecker My rating: 4 of 5 stars Author Andrew Hoffecker said in an interview that his study of Charles Hodge actually arose from reading about fundamentalism. While Hoffecker was a PhD student at Brown...
Announcing Bible Truths B: The Story of the Old Testament
A Christ-Centered Bible Bryan Chapell helped revolutionize my thinking about the Old Testament when I read his Christ-Centered Preaching for a required expository preaching course in seminary. He came up with a great way to name—and spot—the problem of moralism in...
New International Reader’s Version and Evangelism
I run a weekly outreach ministry mainly attended by lower-income adults with low educational and reading levels. The KJVs they got who-knows-where are often unintelligible to them, but they seem to truly want to learn and understand. (They listen so much better than...
Review: The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness
The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness by Kevin DeYoung My rating: 4 of 5 stars J. I. Packer recently said in an interview with Desiring God, There are writers who think that simply by crisp, orthodox formulations...
Review: The Shepherd Leader at Home: Knowing, Leading, Protecting, and Providing for Your Family
The Shepherd Leader at Home: Knowing, Leading, Protecting, and Providing for Your Family by Timothy Z. Witmer My rating: 3 of 5 stars Timothy Witmer, professor of practical theology at Westminster Seminary, is best known for his book The Shepherd Leader: Achieving...