Book Review: ‘The Great Exchange’ by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington
I have been a fan of Jerry Bridges for several years. I was first introduced to Bridges when I picked up Transforming Grace—a warm and refreshing treatment of the grace of God and how we can practically apply the liberating truth of God’s grace to our daily lives. Then I read The Pursuit of Holiness, [...]
Book Review: God’s Greater Glory by Bruce A. Ware
God’s people throughout the centuries have struggled to understand the relationship between God’s sovereignty and our human responsibility. Recently, some theologians have developed a theological framework most commonly referred to as “Open Theism,” in order explain the apparent paradox that exists between the twin realities of God’s divine rule and our human freedom. This framework [...]
Book Review: The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin; edited by Tony Lane
When John Calvin wrote the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion, it was intended to be a “simple handbook of Christian doctrine” (14). Just prior the time it was to be published, however, Francis I, the king of France, unleashed a “fierce campaign of repression” (14) against French Protestantism. In light of [...]
Book Review: Evangelical Ethics by John Jefferson Davis
It has been easy for me to slip into the mentality that engagement in ethical issues is not the priority of the Christian individually or the Church as a whole. To be honest, as I consider the past eight years of my Christian life, I can say that most of the time I have spent [...]
Book Review – ‘Misquoting Truth’ by Timothy Paul Jones
The question of whether or not we can trust the textual accuracy of our Bibles is an essential question for our spiritual lives. Unattended doubts regarding the certainty of the Bible’s textual integrity will greatly hinder spiritual growth and rob one of joy, assurance, and moral decisiveness. If we are not sure that God’s Word [...]
Book Review – The Journey from Texts to Translations, by Paul D. Wegner
God’s promise to uphold and protect His Word is a precious and reassuring promise. To observe how God has accomplished this throughout the ages is edifying and faith strengthening. The Journey from Texts to Translations by Paul D. Wegner is a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of the Bible’s transmission and translation, from ancient [...]
Review: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, Part III
Part I – Introduction and Summary of the Book Part II – Strengths and Weaknesses Yet, we must not fault him too much here. Despite this weakness, Machen’s book remains a helpful tool in understanding not only the reality of liberalism and its inherent dangers, but also in training our minds to clearly see the [...]
Review: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, Part II
On the whole, Machen’s work is commendable and worthy of emulation in several respects. The first area of strength in this treatise that perhaps could go unnoticed in light of more explicit strengths, is Machen’s courage to deal with this particular issue. It is rarely ever easy to approach controversy and deal with important theological [...]
Review: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, Part I
J. Gresham Machen’s main burden in his book, Christianity and Liberalism, is to make a clear distinction between true Christianity and what had, by that time, been termed as liberalism. It was primarily within the context of the unparalleled advances in industry, technology, and science of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that liberalism [...]
Book Review – ‘The Expository Genius of John Calvin’ by Steven J. Lawson
Steve Lawson, senior pastor at Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, has started a project – a big project. The project, A Long Line of Godly Men is a book series that will survey the doctrines of grace as they have been taught and defended from the time of Moses, to the apostle John, to Augustine, [...]
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