Book Review: The Story of the Church (A. M. Renwick)
London: IVP, Fourth Edition, 2020. The Preface to this fourth edition of The Story of the Church contains a short biography of A. M. Renwick, who wrote the first edition […]
Three Lessons from John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl
New York: HarperCollins, 2002 This would qualify as one of the saddest, most appalling stories I have ever come across concerning the whole issue of transgenderism. It tells of twin […]
Book Review: Lead (Paul David Tripp)
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020 I was given this book recently for Christmas, but wasn’t really looking forward to reading it. ‘Not another book on leadership!’ I cynically thought to myself. […]
Book Review: Sermons on Second Timothy (John Calvin)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2018 Throughout much of 1554 and 1555 Calvin was preaching on the Pastoral Epistles, and so preached 31 sermons on 2 Timothy. Alas, the sermon on […]
Book Review: Fire Road (Kim Phuc Phan Thi)
Illinois: Tyndale Momentum, 2017 On 8 June 1972 Kim’s life changed when South Vietnamese planes dropped napalm on fleeing villagers. Kim was nine years when she endured the terrible burning […]
Book Review: Gracious Survival (Emily C. Ward)
Stanhope Gardens: Eider Books, 2020 Born in 1933, Emily Ward has seen much over her long life. She was not born into a Christian family, but a diligent assistant minister, […]
Book Review: Renaissance (Os Guiness)
Inter-Varsity Press, 2014 This is a book I only discovered recently—based on the recommendation of a friend—who suggested that I’d really like it. He was not wrong. But it also […]
Book Review: Ecclesiastes: Life in a Fallen World (Benjamin Shaw)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 This is a helpful work on that most intriguing work, the book of Ecclesiastes, although it is neither a commentary nor a series of sermons. […]
Book Review: Ever in Thy Sight (Abraham Kuyper)
Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2020 Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) is known as a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, one who encouraged the growth of Christian schools, and who developed views on […]
Book Review: Preacher, Pastor and Evangelist (Edited by Gerard O’Brien)
Sydney: Matthias Media, 2019 Ten essayists have put together this most engaging tribute to the preaching, pastoring, and evangelistic work of Simon Manchester, who served as the senior minister at […]
Through All the Changing Scenes
“The providence of God is like Hebrew words – it can be read only backwards.” So wrote John Flavel. “Of making many books there is no end and much study […]
Book Review: Come Let Us Sing (Robert S. Smith)
Latimer Publications, 2020 Rob Smith is something of a Christian polymath: singer, songwriter, musician, theologian, author, and pastor. And as such, his book, Come, Let Us Sing is rather like […]
Book Review: en.courage.ment (Charles H. Spurgeon)
Pennsylvania: R. P. B. Northern Publishing Company, 2019 Many readers will know Spurgeon’s devotional work, Morning and Evening, from which these forty daily readings are taken. The language is more […]
Book Review: Psalms by the Day (Alec Motyer)
Fearn: Christian Focus, 2016 This volume is designed to take the reader through the whole Psalter in 73 days. Dr Motyer has provided his own translation, has added some analysis […]
Book Review: God and the Pandemic (N. T. Wright)
London: SPCK, 2020 Having just read a collection mainly of Puritan sermons from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on Godly Directions in a Time of Plague (Crossville: Puritan Publications, 2020), […]
Book Review: Exegetical Letters and Sermons on Hebrews (Charles Hodge)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 Those readers who have appreciated Charles Hodge’s commentaries on Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians will welcome this shorter work on Hebrews. It is […]