UNDERSTANDING FAMILY WORSHIP
Understanding Family Worship Author: Terry L. Johnson Publisher: Christian Focus Year: 2022 All Christian parents want to raise their children to know the Lord Jesus Christ. The main challenge concerns […]
Review of Bradley G. Green, Augustine of Hippo: His Life and Impact, Fearn: Christian Focus, 2020.
Christian Focus has ventured into the area of the Early Church Fathers, and this is to be welcomed. One who did so much earlier was B. B. Warfield who famously […]
Review of Sinclair Ferguson, Lessons From the Upper Room, Sanford: Ligonier Ministries, 2021.
But this dedication is for others to read: These are private words addressed to you in public (T. S. Eliot, A Dedication to my Wife) These poetic lines capture the essence […]
Review of J. C. Ryle, HOW DO YOU READ THE BIBLE? (Edinburgh: Banner Of Truth Trust, 2021).
TOO much is never enough when it comes to reading, marking, learning and inwardly digesting the Word of God, for it is in His Word, the Bible, that God reveals […]
Review: Gospel Evidences of Saving Faith by John Owen
Reviewer: James Jeffery Author: John Owen (edited by Brian G. Hedges) Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books Year: 2016 Whether you are someone who has walked with Jesus for many years or you are new […]
Review of Rhett P. Dodson, With a Mighty Triumph!: Christ’s Resurrection and Ours, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2021.
The title of this work comes from Robert Lowry’s hymn Low in the Grave He Lay (the lyrics are better than the grammar), and the content is an exposition of 1 Corinthians […]
Book Review: C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life
C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life, edited by David C. Downing and Michael G. Maudlin, London: William Collins, 2019. By the age of ten, C. S. Lewis had read Milton’s […]
Review of Jonathan Gibson, The Moon is Always Round, Canada: New Growth Press, 2019
There are fewer sadder events in life than a stillbirth. This is a book designed to convey to children that God is always good in every situation (Psalm 100:5). Jonathan […]
Book Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (Carl R. Trueman)
Wheaton: Crossway, 2020 In recent years, there have been sweeping changes in the way personal identity, sexuality and politics have been thought about in Western culture. What was considered common […]
Book Review: A Spectacle of Glory (Joni Eareckson Tada with Larry Libby)
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016 John Newton once commented: ‘Some Christians are called upon to endure a disproportionate amount of suffering.’ Joni is one such Christian, as a quadriplegic with cancer […]
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, […]