Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. By David Platt. Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah Books, 2010. 230 pp. Paper, $14.99. “A New York Times Bestseller” proclaims a banner at the top of the book. Here is a book that is hard to categorize. Imagine a cross between The Gospel According to Jesus and […]
The Chronological Study Bible: New King James Version
The Chronological Study Bible: New King James Version. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2008. 1696 pp. Hardcover, $44.99. Fans of the New King James Version will be pleased with this new and innovative study Bible from Thomas Nelson. Students of the Word have often sought to understand when events occurred as they unfolded within the […]
Acts 1:8 Reconsidered: A Stub Track, a Siding, or a Main Track?
Politics According to the Bible
Politics According to the Bible. By Wayne Grudem. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010. 624 pp. Cloth, $39.99. In this book, Wayne Grudem seeks to answer the question, “what does the Bible say about politics?” More specifically, Grudem is primarily dealing not with basic political philosophies but specific issues in the modern American political scene (his […]
Degrees of Rewards in Eternity: Sanctification by Works?
Refuting Compromise: A Biblical and Scientific Refutation of “Progressive Creationism” (Billions of Years), As Popularized by Astronomer Hugh Ross
Refuting Compromise: A Biblical and Scientific Refutation of “Progressive Creationism” (Billions of Years), As Popularized by Astronomer Hugh Ross. By Jonathan Sarfati. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2004. 411 pp. Paper, $14.99. Genesis 1 states that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days. In recent years the length of the days has […]
A Review of Christopher D. Bass’s That You May Know: Assurance of Salvation in 1 John
Certainty—A Place to Stand: Critique of the Emergent Church of Postevangelicals
Certainty—A Place to Stand: Critique of the Emergent Church of Postevangelicals. By Grant Richison. Pickering, Ontario: Castle Quay Books, 2010. 320 pp. Paper, $27.95. Rarely have I read a book that moved me as much as this one. The title itself is moving: Certainty—A Place to Stand. In our postmodern culture nothing is certain, especially […]
Dispensationalism and Free Grace: Intimately Linked – Part 2
James, The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
James, The IVP New Testament Commentary Series. By George M. Stulac. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993. 206 pp. Paperback, $17.00. Though this book was originally published nearly twenty years ago, it is still being marketed to schools and scholars. I just became aware of it. And I’m glad I did. Stulac takes the normal […]