Book Review: Beyond the Fish Sticker (Ben Swift)
Sydney: Morning Star Publishing, 2019 Benjamin Swift is a Presbyterian freelance writer from Brisbane, who has written a short but wide-ranging book on seeking a deeper knowledge of God and […]
Book Review: Truth We Can Touch (Tim Chester)
Wheaton: IL, Crossway, 2020 The great desire of every human heart is to have true communion with God, and communion with one another, and this is why Tim Chester’s Truth […]
Book Review: If I Could Speak (Mark Jones)
Fearn: UK, Christian Focus, 2019 Mark Jones has adopted an imaginative way to approach the abortion issue by calling himself Zoe who is an unborn girl and who writes fourteen […]
Book Review: The Bible in Australia (Meredith Lake)
Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2018 Meredith Lake has produced an intriguing and wonderfully-written work on a most significant subject. Her thesis is that the Bible is under Australian skin – quite […]
Book Review: Journeying with Bonhoeffer (Andreas Loewe & Katherine Firth)
Six Steps on the Path of DiscipleshipSydney: Morning Star Publishing, 2019 The martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged by the Nazis in 1945, is often portrayed in political terms, but he was […]
Book Review: Is Jesus History? (John Dickson)
United Kingdom: The Good Book Company, 2019 In an age when supposedly intelligent pundits can openly question whether Jesus even existed, this is a work to be welcomed and studied. […]
Book Review: Where to Start with Islam (Samuel Green)
Sydney: Matthias Media, 2019 In learning of their own faith, Muslims learn something of Christianity – however erroneous that turns out to be – but Christians are not necessarily raised […]
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 […]
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 […]