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  • Jesus and Israel: One Covenant or Two?

    from Keith Mathison Feb 28, 2015 Category: Book Reviews

    Every year, thousands of Christian books are published worldwide. Of those thousands, there are usually only a small handful that are worth reading. Of those that are worth reading, there are only a few that are worth reading repeatedly. David Holwerda's Jesus & Israel: One Covenant or Two? is one of those rare few. Keep Reading

  • Augustine of Hippo

    from Keith Mathison Nov 01, 2014 Category: Book Reviews

    St. Augustine was born in A.D. 354 in the town of Thagaste in North Africa to a pagan father and a Christian mother.  From these inauspicious beginnings, he would eventually become one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the Church and Western civilization.  The ramifications of his debates with the Donatists and the Pelagians are still felt to this day in the Church.  His Confessions remains a spiritual classic among Christians of widely varying traditions.  His magnum opus, The City of God laid down the political and religious foundations for the following 1000 years of medieval history.  Those involved in serious theological debate continue to appeal to the writings of Augustine for support. Keep Reading

  • Deserted by God?

    from Starr Meade May 29, 2013 Category: Book Reviews

    Ever have the nagging worry that maybe God has turned His back on you? Or perhaps, less dramatically, do you sometimes feel numb toward the spiritual things that used to be so exciting? Does the Christian life seem to give less than it promised when you began it? Sinclair Ferguson's experience as a pastor tells him that many more Christians feel these things than will admit to it. If you ever feel this way, or if you work with others who sometimes do, you will find Deserted By God? to be an invaluable resource. Keep Reading

  • Review: So What? Youth Bible Studies

    from Keith Mathison May 04, 2013 Category: Book Reviews

    I had the opportunity to review three separate studies: Treasuring God's Word, A Study of Romans, and Worshiping God. Each study comes with materials for the students as well as an extensive leader guide. The student materials and the leader guide are attractively put together. The graphics are obviously designed to appeal to the audience, and the content is well organized. Teachers will find these studies very "teacher-friendly." Keep Reading

  • The Intolerance of Tolerance and A Queer Thing Happened to America

    from Starr Meade Feb 08, 2013 Category: Book Reviews

    Eye-openers. Startling, even shocking eye-openers. Both books reviewed in this article proved to be that for me, as they demonstrated where the culture I live in has been, where it is now, and where it seems to be going. Keep Reading

  • Lady Jane Grey

    from Starr Meade Oct 17, 2012 Category: Book Reviews

    We raise our children in a culture where many contemporary celebrities are famous simply for being famous. There are few celebrities to whom we can point our children as models of what we would like them to emulate. Keep Reading

  • Proverbs: Wisdom that Works

    from Starr Meade Aug 31, 2012 Category: Book Reviews

    Time and again, I found myself convicted of my lack of seriousness in my pursuit of Christ as I read Proverbs: Wisdom that Works. Each day, we must begin anew in our pursuit of wisdom, in our attachment to Christ. "We feel disqualified," Ortlund writes, "and we are. But that is not a deal-breaker for God. With him, there is only one deal-breaker: 'The complacency of fools destroys them' (Proverbs 1:32). You do not need to hate Jesus to waste your life. You only need to be okay with how you are."   Keep Reading

  • Practicing Affirmation

    from David Murray Jul 04, 2012 Category: Book Reviews

    I'm amazed that Sam Crabtree's Practicing Affirmation has not had much wider "affirmation." As John Piper says in the foreword, it's a "one-of-a-kind book." Do you know any other book that deals with the subject of how to praise others and to do so as a habit of life? No, neither do I; and yet, as Sam demonstrates, it's a topic with lots of Scriptural support and explanation, together with huge consequences for our families, friendships, and fellowships. Keep Reading

  • These Last Days: A Christian View of History

    from Starr Meade May 30, 2012 Category: Book Reviews

    The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals chose "These Last Days" as the topic for their 2010 Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology. The book These Last Days is a written collection of the conference's main addresses and of several of the seminars, provided by nine different Reformed theologians. It is so other-than typical "end times" material! Keep Reading

  • The Quest for Comfort: The Story of the Heidelberg Catechism

    from Guy Waters Feb 24, 2012 Category: Book Reviews

    Since my son is now only a year or two from entering elementary school, I look forward to sharing with him the historical treasures of the Reformed faith. In a culture that pants after the new and that wearies of the old, the church ought to be one place that prizes her own history. We prize history not because we are arcane antiquarians but because we are called to run our race "surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses." God has something to teach both our children and us from the halls of history. Keep Reading
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