My Review of ‘Defending Inerrancy’ by Norman Geisler and William Roach at the Gospel Coalition
I recently reviewed Norman Geisler’s new book, Defending Inerrancy: Affirming the Accuracy of Scripture for a New Generation, for the The Gospel Coalition. Below is an excerpt and link to the review. In the fall of 1978, in response to a controversy that had been mounting among evangelicals over the previous 25 years, a group of about [...]
Book Review: ‘The Deity of Christ’ edited by Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson
Summary* This volume, as the title clearly indicates, is a collection of essays on the deity of Jesus Christ. The book begins with a brief introduction the editors, Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, in which they discuss the vital importance of this topic and the need for fresh discussion. Morgan and Peterson cite with approval [...]
Summary of ‘The Deity of Christ’ edited by Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson
This volume, as the title clearly indicates, is a collection of essays on the deity of Jesus Christ. The book begins with a brief introduction the editors, Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, in which they discuss the vital importance of this topic and the need for fresh discussion. Morgan and Peterson cite with approval Peter [...]
Book Review – ‘How to Give Away Your Faith’ by Paul Little (2)
Weaknesses Although there are many commendable aspects to this book, there were a few notable weaknesses as well. First, despite the recent updates by Little’s wife, Marie, the book simply does not resonate with a contemporary sound. The book provides solid, timeless principles to be sure, but in many places, the language betrays its age. [...]
Book Review – ‘How to Give Away Your Faith’ by Paul Little (1)
Introduction Paul Little, prior to his death in 1975, was devoted disciple of Jesus Christ a committed evangelist of His gospel. Little and his wife worked for twenty-five years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship—a ministry dedicated to serving Christian college students and bringing the gospel to unbelievers in a university context. Little also served as an [...]
Personal and Pastoral Reflections on ‘Brothers We Are Not Professionals’ by John Piper
John Piper’s Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, was a challenging, encouraging, and harrowing read. In many places I found myself convicted by my lack of a particular quality or practice, while simultaneously exhorted to pursue, with more vigor, that missing element in my life and ministry. But reading this book was also a sobering experience. [...]
Reflections on ‘Teaching to Observe’ by Jay E. Adams
In Teaching to Observe, Jay Adams helps counselors to see teaching as an essential and indispensable aspect of counseling. The counselor is not a professional “listener,” who merely draws out solutions to the counselee’s problem from the counselee himself. Rather, the counselor is one who seeks to impart genuine spiritual knowledge to the counselee with [...]
Reflections on ‘Seeing with New Eyes’ by David Powlison
Although the chapters in the book Seeing with New Eyes were written as separate articles, the unifying theme of Scripture’s sufficiency for counseling was clear and unmistakable. Whether it was a chapter which unearthed the truths of Scripture by thoughtful exposition and application of particular passages, or a chapter with a series of heart-searching, sin-exposing [...]
Book Review – Preach and Heal by Charles Fielding
There is much in Fielding’s work, Preach and Heal: A Biblical Model for Missions, to commend it as a helpful resource for missionary work. Fielding’s observations on the differing opinions between the “Preachers,” and the “Healers,” was clever, insightful, and at times stinging. Yet this sting grew into conviction and then hearty agreement as Fielding [...]
Book Review – ‘A Quest for Godliness’ by J.I. Packer
In 336 densely packed pages and over several chapters, Packer, in his book, A Quest for Godliness, brings the reader face to face with many different facets of Puritan life and ministry with historical precision and keen theological insight. Packer insists that an encounter like this with the Puritans is essential for Christians today who [...]
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