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Feminine Threads
from Starr Meade Sep 16, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
“Christianity is a religion of history.” With these words, Diana Lynn Severance launches into a comprehensive survey of church history from the New Testament to the present day. As is obvious by the book’s title, Feminine Threads: Women in the Tapestry of Christian History is a survey intended to be selective. Severance brings two particular aspects of church history into sharp focus: the roles of individual women in that history and the way the church has thought about women through the centuries.
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Saving Leonardo
from Terry Yount Sep 05, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
Nancy Pearcey’s second book about culture in 5 years, Saving Leonardo is subtitled A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, & Meaning. Refined through lectures at Philadelphia Biblical University, Saving Leonardo complements her earlier book, Total Truth (2005). According to jacket notes, Saving Leonardo addresses the student of culture, with the goal of exposing secularism’s destructive and dehumanizing forces. Readers are left with one caveat: what you see and hear in the arts and popular media is not the innocent expression of personal opinion, but often deliberate antagonism toward a Judeo-Christian world and life view.
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Ideas Have Consequences
from Carl Robbins Jun 27, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
In 1948 the brilliant Richard Weaver penned his important book Ideas have consequences. In this book Weaver demonstrated the moving worldviews of the day and showed where they were taking us. Weaver was trying to articulate the big ideas that shape our culture. In the last 25 years several Christian thinkers have focused on different angles of this issue.
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The God Who Is There
from Starr Meade Jun 20, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
She was understandably frustrated. She had called from another state to learn how she could remedy the educational program for home school families she had been hired to direct. She complained that, though the program claimed it was making Christ known to students, it provided no specific teaching either in Bible or in Christian doctrine. As we talked, I realized her frustration was only going to increase when she tried to fix the problem.
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Esther & Ruth
from Lane Keister Jun 13, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
It is a privilege to review Esther & Ruth, coming as it does from one of this reviewer's favorite series, and written by one of this reviewer's four favorite living Old Testament commentators (the other three being John Currid, John Mackay, and Dale Ralph Davis). I tend to purchase everything written by these four authors, and I would heartily recommend that Reformed pastors do the same. It will never be money wasted.
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Reverberation
from Eric Watkins Jun 03, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
This is a fine little book. I would happily recommend it to lay people, pastors and elders. It is written with both ordained and lay people in view. The style of the book is conversational rather than academic. The book communicates well and includes a number of catchy phrases and memorable anecdotes. Leeman is clearly a good story-teller. He writes from a Reformed-Baptist perspective, as is evidenced by the majority of the book’s endorsers, citations, and especially his doctrine of the church.
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TrueU: Is the Bible Reliable? DVD Set
from Keith Mathison May 30, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
In 2009, Focus on the Family produced the TrueU: Does God Exist DVD set with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer of the Discovery Institute. In this first series of ten lectures, Dr. Meyer examined the abundant evidence in nature for the existence of God. In this second series of lectures, Dr. Meyer examines the claims of the Bible to be the revelation of the God, whose existence is clearly revealed in nature. Keep Reading -
The Secret of Contentment
from Carl Robbins May 25, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
After 24 years in pastoral ministry I’ve realized there are some constant issues with God’s people. I’m going to have a certain percentage of people who seem to struggle with the assurance of salvation over and over again (I’ve seen some people agonize for decades).
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Christians Get Depressed Too
from Guy Waters May 18, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 1 out of every 10 adult Americans currently suffers from depression. Depression is not confined to the United States. The World Health Organization describes depression as “common” in the world today, affecting an estimated 121 million persons. If we were to consider those who have not been clinically diagnosed with depression, but who suffer periodically from mild forms of depression, these figures would undoubtedly swell.
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Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy
from Keith Mathison May 11, 2011 Category: Book Reviews
Charles Hodge stands as one of the most influential giants of American Reformed theology. In his fifty-five years at Princeton Theological Seminary (1822–1878), he taught over three thousand students. Through his magnum opus, his three-volume Systematic Theology, he has taught countless thousands more. Many of today’s leading Reformed theologians count Hodge as one of their major influences. It is surprising therefore, that Paul Gutjahr’s biography is the first modern critical biography of Hodge to appear in print. A work of this kind is long overdue.
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