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  • Finally Free: Fighting For Purity With The Power of Grace

    Heath Lambert is the executive director of the National Association of Nouthetic Counselors (soon to be re-named). He also serves as associate professor of Biblical Counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as associate dean of applied studies and chairman of the department of biblical counseling at their undergrad institution (Boyce). He is…

  • A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in The Christian Home

    Jason Helopoulos is Assistant Pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s Kevin DeYoung’s church, and he and Jason are good friends. Jason is also a graduate of Dallas Seminary (finishing the same year I started college), so we probably have some mutual professor friends. What I’m…

  • Is God Anti-Gay?

    I’m not sure whether more people ask “Is God anti-gay?” or “Isn’t God anti-gay?” A lot may depend on the inflection in the question, but certainly the perception in popular culture is that God is probably anti-gay, or if nothing else his most zealous followers certainly are. To help cut through the tangle of questions…

  • Prepared By Grace, For Grace

    Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and also a pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation. Oh, and also he writes books in his spare time, which is facilitated in no small measure by his teacher’s assistant Paul Smalley. Together, they’ve put together Prepared By…

  • Sex & Money: Pleasures That Leave You Empty and Grace That Satisfies

    For a while now, I’ve been a big fan of Paul Tripp’s books. Back in the fall I was able to read through his Dangerous Calling. Though I didn’t do a formal review, I did offer some extended thoughts on the book here and here. It is a book I think every pastor or potential…

  • Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling

    Though it doesn’t dominate my blogging conversations, I’ve been interested in counseling in the church since the end of my time at Word of Life. It was for my last intensive class that I was introduced to Ed Welch’s When People Are Big and God Is Small, and it was long after before I was…

  • Mini-Reviews: Center Church and Gospel Treason

    If you haven’t heard yet, Tim Keller published a book back in the fall that is basically a synopsis of his approach to ministry. I was able to get a hold of a NetGalley copy, which was a nightmare to read, but I also picked up the eBook when it was on sale. I have…

  • 8 Resources For Changing Lives

      Some of the most influential books I’ve read are pictured in the stack above. I was first introduced to Ed Welch during the last class in my second year at Word of Life Bible Institute. His book, When People Are Big and God Is Small, is not only in the top of the stack…

  • 6 Big Books I’m Plodding Through This Year

    I learned my lesson from last year. Instead of 13 books I’m planning to read through, here are 6 books on the larger side that I’m “plodding” through: Foundations of Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal by Eric L. Johnson A Puritan Theology and Meet the Puritans Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith…

  • 4 Online Journals You Should Know About

    Yesterday, the latest issue of Themelios was published and there’s some good reading to be had in there. Andreas Kostenberger’s The Present and Future of Biblical Theology stands out for one, but there’s also 68 book reviews! Themelios is a great catch-all online journal (especially when it comes book reviews) but it’s not the only journal you can…