Category Archives: book reviews
The Essential Edwards Collection: $17 on Kindle (!)
I recently heard from Moody Publishers that the Essential Edwards Collection is being sold on Kindle right now for $17–or $16.48, to be exact. If you’ve sat on the fence since 2010–a long time to sit on the fence–now may … Continue reading
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Notable Books: Help! I Can’t Get Motivated
My friend Adam Embry, an assistant pastor at Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville, has just published a helpful booklet with DayOne Publications. It’s called Help! I Can’t Get Motivated (DayOne, 2011) and it tackles the widespread problem of sloth (to … Continue reading
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One of the Most Helpful Books You’ll Find: Gregg Allison’s Historical Theology
Having recently begun reading and using Southern Seminary theology professor Gregg Allison’s Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine (Zondervan, 2011), I can say that it is easily one of the most helpful books on my shelf. If you are … Continue reading
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Great Books: Josh Moody’s “No Other Gospel”
Without a doubt, one of the preachers I most look up to and learn from is Josh Moody of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois. Josh is a humble man with an outsize résumé–BA from Cambridge, PhD from Cambridge (in none … Continue reading
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Greg Thornbury of BibleMesh on Todd Burpo’s “Heaven Is for Real”
I am very privileged to be part of a group of writers at Thesis, the BibleMesh blog. I don’t know if you’ve been following our work there, but we’ve been pumping out content for several weeks now. We’ve got Greg … Continue reading
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Mike Wittmer Tackles Rob Bell, Gospel-Centered Death, Thorn on Self-Preaching
Mike Wittmer of Grand Rapids Theological Seminary has recently released Christ Alone: An Evangelical Response to Rob Bell’s Love Wins (Edenridge, 2011, lively foreword by Michael Horton). I commend it to you. This is the only book-length treatment of Bell’s … Continue reading
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The Man Who Stole Hitler’s Pistol
John Woodbridge of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School has just published a book with Pulitzer-prize winning journal Maurice Possley that tells a fascinating story: how a gun owned by Adolf Hitler ended up in the possession of his family. That is … Continue reading
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Mike McKinley and the Wimps of Church Planting
You might have heard about Mike McKinley’s recent book on church planting: Church Planting Is for Wimps (Crossway, 2010). If you haven’t, it’s a great read. Mike is the senior pastor of Guilford Baptist Church in Sterling, Virginia. In God’s … Continue reading
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The Power and Peril of Journalism: Pulitzer’s “World” and Luce’s “Time”
I recently had the chance to dig into a couple of good books: Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power (Harper, 2010) by James McGrath Morris and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Knopf, 2010) by Alan … Continue reading
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