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 […]
Book Review: Christian Ethics (Wayne Grudem)
Wheaton: IL, Crossway, 2018 Wayne Grudem’s work on Christian Ethics looks set to become the standard in its field for some time to come. There is a wealth of pastoral, […]
Book Review: Post-Christian (Gene Edward Veith Jr.)
Wheaton: IL, Crossway, 2020 Every now and again you read a book that you just can’t put down. For me, Veith’s latest work was one such book. In the space […]
Book Review: Boy Swallows Universe (Trent Dalton)
Sydney: Harper Collins, 2018 I’ve been trying to put my finger on the reason why Trent Dalton’s book Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins, 2018) is so popular. For the first time […]
Book Review: Let’s Study Mark (Sinclair B. Ferguson)
Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth, 1999 Let’s Study Mark was first published in 1999, but I have only recently been reading it. I know, I’m a bit behind the times […]
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. […]