Category: Book Reviews
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Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches About the Unseen World – and Why It Matters
Every now and then a book comes along that blows your mind. I feel pretty comfortable saying that this is one of those books. I was somewhat prepared for the ideas that Michael Heiser unpacks in Supernatural: What the Bible Teaches About the Unseen World – and Why It Matters but it was still a game changer.…
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We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking truth to a culture redefining sex, marriage, & the very meaning of right and wrong
Since its inception, I’ve listened to Al Mohler’s daily news podcast The Briefing. Because of that, I felt like I heard much of the material before as I was reading his latest book We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking truth to a culture redefining sex, marriage, & the very meaning of right and wrong. Besides a long…
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Mapping Apologetics: Comparing Contemporary Approaches
My fandom for multiview books knows no ends. However, they are usually authored by individuals holding those divergent views. In this case, a single author has done, in some ways, what many multi-view books fail to achieve. In short, Brian Morley has actually offered a coherent map of contemporary approaches in Christian apologetics. Probably because…
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Gospel Conversations: How to Care Like Christ
About a year ago, I was able to get the first volume in Bob Kellemen’s Equipping Biblical Counselors series. That volume, Gospel-Centered Counseling: How Christ Changes Lives, was a kind of systematic theology of counseling. In that book, he mentions an additional volume, which has thankfully just been released. While the previous volume was more…
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3 Reasons I Want to Review Books (And You Might Too)
You may remember a blog series I claimed to be starting last fall. I’ve long thought it worth putting some organized thoughts down on how to go about being a book reviewer. For reasons I can’t remember, I was sidetracked last fall and so the series never really got off the ground. As I’m getting…
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Advances in The Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading The New Testament
It is perhaps no surprise that my Greek is much rustier now than it was 4 years ago when I had freshly graduated from seminary. I’m still able to make use of it, and did some tutoring over the summer, which refreshed me on the basics. Over the next year, and especially as I start…
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Writers to Read: Nine Names That Belong on Your Bookshelf
Every now and then I’ll read about book about reading other books. It’s kind of weird when you think about it like that, but some books are more about other books than they are about themselves. My favorite in this category is probably Tony Reinke’s Lit. While that’s a more comprehensive theology of reading with…
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Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification (The 5 Solas Series)
Going back to my time at Dallas, I’ve been interested in the discussion about the doctrine of justification. It was at that time that John Piper’s The Future of Justification came out, as well as N. T. Wright’s response Justification: God’s Plan, Paul’s Vision (which if you’re keeping score, is a response book to a…
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Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor’s Life
It’s a bit of a stretch to think of myself as a professor. I am a teacher, and while I do have graduate education in my field, I don’t have a terminal degree yet. I’m actually kind of in limbo while I’m getting experience teaching and thinking about dissertation ideas. Although I don’t have concrete…
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3 Books on Pastors In The Public Square
Every now and then, my reading choices coincide on certain topics. Recently, thanks to three different publishers, I had review copies of books about pastors in the public square. The first was The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision by Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson (thanks Zondervan!)[ref]Grand Rapids: Zondervan, June 2015. 192 pp. Paperback, $18.99. Visit…