Books… Creative and Conservative is the Ideal: A Review of “Original Sin” by Jonathan Edwards 5 Aug 2013 Creative and conservative theology is the ideal, and yet it is a hard balance to retain. Often the most creative theologians drift off into such ungrounded speculation that they end…
Books A Review of “Who Do You Think Your Are?” by Mark Driscoll 22 Jul 2013 Who you believe you are defines how you live. I am convinced that most of the struggles that Christians experience in their sanctification stem from a deficient knowledge of their…
Books A Review of “In The Beginning Was The Word” by Vern Poythress 15 Jul 2013 Who knew that a book on language was going to contain such a variety of content? Vern Poythress’s In The Beginning Was The Word the author writes about a host…
Books The Best Books of the Year (So Far) 8 Jul 2013 I love to read and every year I read around 100 books. Many of them are older works that I am just catching up to. Some are related to the…
Books… A Review of “Jonathan Edwards: A Mini Theology” by John Gerstner 1 Jul 2013 Every year I pick a subject that I am going to study for the year. This year that subject is Jonathan Edwards. Thus far I have read a handful of…
Books… A Review of “Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell” by Strachan and Sweeney 24 Jun 2013 Our modernist sensibilities have taught us to think little of the doctrines of heaven and hell. We are too enlightened for such beliefs, we say. We either diminish their importance or we…
Books… A Review of “Date Your Wife” by Justin Buzzard 17 Jun 201317 Jun 2013 It’s amazing how quickly a husband and wife can lose touch with each other. This week my wife and I will celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. I love her dearly,…
Books… A Review of “Redemption” by Mike Wilkerson 10 Jun 201310 Jun 2013 Serving as a pastor of a church composed largely of recovering addicts and alcoholics introduced me to a world of suffering that I had only known about in theory. When…
Books A Review of “Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity” by Owen Strachan and Douglas Sweeney 3 Jun 20133 Jun 2013 Self-deception about salvation is one of the greatest lies of Satan. At least that’s how the Puritans felt, and Jonathan Edwards, having struggled with his own conversion, certainly affirmed that…
Books A Review of “Bound Together” by Chris Brauns 27 May 201328 May 2013 Giving fresh communication to old theological concepts is no easy task. Some who do "fresh theology" end up going too far and falling prey to their own creativity. Heresy is…
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