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 This short little work deals with the text and canon of the Old Testament, and of the New. Although it is short – and in my […]
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 […]
Book Review: Can Science Explain Everything (John C. Lennox)
The Good Book Company, 2019 In recent years, a significant attack on Christianity in the Western world and especially among the educated classes, can come from so-called “New Atheism”. Its […]
Book Review: The Ten Commandments (Kevin DeYoung)
Wheaton, Crossway, 2018 This is a book many will deeply appreciate. Recent years have seen the fear of legalism swing the pendulum too far the other way, as antinomianism casts […]
Book Review: Can We Trust the Gospels? (Peter J. Williams)
Wheaton, Crossway, 2018 If you have come across the writings of Bart Ehrman, Peter Williams’ little book is the antidote you may need. Bart Ehrman mocks the notion that the […]
Book Review: The Westminster Confession
Edinburgh, The Banner of Truth, 2018 The Westminster Confession of Faith was produced over a number of years, from 1643 to 1647. It derived from meetings (1,163 of them!) in […]
Book Review: Being Sam (Morag Zwartz)
Melbourne: Parenesis Publishing, 2018 Being Sam tells of an experience for which, in Morag Zwartz’s own words, “there were no made-roads” (p. 63). In his short life, her son Samuel […]
Book Review: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (John Bunyan)
Review of John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1666, reprinted 2018. In 1666 Bunyan, who was to spend twelve years in prison for […]