Book Review: John Newton’s Diary, 1764 (Edited by Marylynn Rouse)
The John Newton Project, 2020 1764 was the year in which John Newton took up his ministry at Olney, and this is his diary. Those who have appreciated the earlier […]
Reformers Recommends: Books About God
What will you be doing in the new heavens and new earth? You won’t be fighting sin. You won’t be trying to work out how to relate to other people. […]
Book Review: Meeting Jesus (R. C. Sproul)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 With the death of R. C. Sproul in 2017, the Reformed world lost one of its most articulate apologists and evangelists. His gifts come to […]
Book Review: Redemptive Reversals (G. K. Beale)
Wheaton, IL: Crossway 2019 Biblical Theology has been one of the great re-discoveries within the reformed-evangelical church over the past one hundred years or so. This approach views the Bible […]
Book Review: Safe and Sound (David Powlison)
Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2019 David Powlison died of cancer soon after this, his last book, was published. It is a short but worthwhile treatment of spiritual warfare. Powlison […]
Book Review: The Other Worldview (Dr. Peter Jones)
Bellingham, WA: Kirkdale Press, 2015 Every now and again a book comes along that you cannot put down. And what can be even more surprising is that when you first picked up the book you didn’t think you would be captivated by it at all. For me, Peter Jones’ The Other Worldview, was just such a book. I was initially […]
Book Review: Saved by Grace Alone (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2016 Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones remains the most pre-eminent preacher in the English language from the twentieth century. Having said that, it is not unfair to say […]
Book Review: Voices from the Past Volume 2 (Richard Rushing [ed.])
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2016 This is the second volume of Puritan daily readings to have been compiled by Richard Rushing, and it is as welcome as the first. For […]
Book Review: Not Home Yet (Dr Ian Smith)
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019 In our worship and devotions, our focus has often been heavenly minded, yet in Revelation 21, the apostle John’s vision of the future consists “a new […]
Book Review: Let’s Study James (Sinclair B. Ferguson)
Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth, 2018 The Let’s Study series published by the Banner of Truth has been a most helpful one for pastors, Bible study leaders, and Christians seeking […]
Book Review: Cremation, Embalmment, or Neither? (Alvin J. Schmidt)
Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2015 Even a century ago, the issue of the advisability and appropriateness of cremation was still being discussed in mainstream Protestant Churches. For centuries, the view had […]
Book Review: In Their Own Words (David Calhoun)
Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth, 2018 David Calhoun had a wonderful idea in putting this book together, and the result is most encouraging and refreshing. In Acts 9 we read […]
Book Review: Competing Spectacles (Tony Reinke)
Wheaton, Illonios: Crossway, 2019 Competing Spectacles is a new book by Tony Reinke (author of 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You and Newton on the Christian Life). In this […]
Book Review: That Hideous Strength: How the West Was Lost (Melvin Tinker)
Welwyn: Evangelical Press, 2018 Drawing on the title of a C. S. Lewis novel – which is itself derived from Sir David Lyndsay – Tinker offers a searching critique of […]
Book Review: How We Got the Bible (Greg Lanier)
Fearn: Christian Focus, 2018 Fearn: Christian Focus, 2018 This short little work deals with the text and canon of the Old Testament, and of the New. Although it is short […]
Book Review: Duties of Christian Fellowship (John Owen)
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2017 John Owen became a Congregationalist (or Independent) by conviction, and so published this little work in 1647, although it is suitable for Christians of every […]