Books A Review of “Spiritual Friendship” by Welsey Hill 3 Aug 2015 How should we think about friendship? By in large, the present culture we live in - even within the church - views friendship as a nice, but optional benefit. It…
Books A Review of “You Can Change” by Tim Chester 27 Jul 2015 Writing with a very sensitive tone, Tim Chester has, nonetheless, a very positive message for those stuck in life-dominating sins: you can change. It’s possible. Not on your own, of…
Books A Review of “Same-Sex Attraction and the Church” by Ed Shaw 24 Jul 201524 Jul 2015 “We have a plausibility issue,” says Ed Shaw (21). The shift in opinions on gay marriage is not fundamentally an issue of Biblical exegesis; it’s an issue of practical plausibility.…
Books A Review of “God Dwells Among Us” by G.K. Beale and Mitchell Kim 13 Jul 2015 The temple is undervalued by modern protestants. We tend to look at it as the arcane location of ancient Israelite worship. In their short Biblical theological work, however, Beale and…
Books A Review of “Depression” by Ed Welch 6 Jul 2015 When you are emotionally exhausted even a simple task, like reading, can feel like an impossible chore. Experienced counselor Edward T. Welch knows this, and that's why he has written…
Books Best Books of 2015…So Far 3 Jul 2015 I've had the joy of reading a great number of books this year. Some are older publications that I am just now getting around too, others are brand new. In…
Books A Review of “Mindscape” by Timothy Witmer 29 Jun 2015 "Human behavior doesn't just come out of nowhere but is the result of a thoughtful process" (1), says Timothy Witmer, Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. It is…
Books A Review of “Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life” by Stephen Nichols 22 Jun 2015 Theologians of the past have much to teach us. Many of the contemporary theological and practical questions that Christians wrestle with are not new. Crossway’s Theologians of the Christian Life…
Books A Review of “Theology as Retrieval” by Buschart and Eilers 10 Jun 2015 There is always a temptation in theological development to either revile or relive the past. Both approaches will give us a very deficient theology for the present. There is a…
Books A Review of “The Meaning of the Pentateuch” by John Sailhamer 27 May 2015 Evangelicals are desperately in need of a deeper, richer understanding of the Old Testament as a whole and the Pentateuch in a particular. For many, the Pentateuch is either irrelevant…
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