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  • Keeping the UPS and USPS Guys Busy

    It has been quite a while since I alerted you to any books I’ve received. Part of that was because there was a lull in shipments, and part of that is because I stopped doing a weekly update post. However, the time has come to rectify the situation and let you see what’s in the…

  • The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments

    Last week, we looked into Walt Kaiser’s Recovering The Unity of The Bible. Today, we’ve got his older and more comprehensive work The Promise-Plan of God. The first part of this book is comes from Kaiser’s older book Toward an Old Testament Theology and presents a biblical theology of the Old Testament books. The second part then…

  • Recovering The Unity of The Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose

    I’ve been familiar with the name Walt Kaiser since early on in college. One of my first professors used several of his sources, but I hadn’t personally read anything by him until now. Originally delivered as a set of 16 lectures at Cambridge Summer School of Theology, Recovering the Unity of the Bible is a very reader-friendly…

  • The Drama of Doctrine: The Dramaturge

    [This post is part of The Drama of Doctrine review series] Three weeks ago, we started our way through Kevin Vanhoozer’s The Drama of Doctrine. As Vanhoozer himself recaps for us: Part 1 presented the subject matter and subsequent form of theology in terms of a triune theo-drama of redemption. Theology is evangelical to the extent that…

  • God is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology

    Few Christians will ever read a systematic theology cover to cover. Part of this, no doubt, is because some of those same Christians don’t really do much reading at all. Why change that for such an acquired taste as systematic theology? Others are avid readers but are intimidated by either the size and scope of…

  • Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Conclusion

    [You’re finishing this review series because Bob Kellemen at RPM Ministries sent me a review copy of Equipping Counselors For Your Church!] Wednesday, we looked at the first two “laps” in Bob’s book, Envisioning and Enlisting. Yesterday, we covered laps 3 and 4, Equipping and Empowering. Today, I just have some summary thoughts on the book as a whole.…

  • Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Equipping and Empowering

    Yesterday, we started into Equipping Counselors For Your Church by looking at the opening two sections, Envisioning and Enlisting. In Bob’s race metaphor, those are the first two laps, so today we’ll look at the final two: Equipping and Empowering. This is more my particular niche, so after the good reminders from Bob about the need to develop…

  • Equipping Counselors For Your Church: Envisioning and Enlisting

    A while back, Bob Kellemen, who heads up RPM Ministries, sent me a copy of his latest book Equipping Counselors For Your Church. Monday’s review of The Biblical Counseling Movement was a kind of setup for this mini-series since Bob stands in line with the biblical counseling movement and is the Executive Director for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. This…

  • RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith

    Before even getting into this review, I need to let you know the bargain you’re getting if you get this book. For less than $10 (a mere $8.90) you are getting content that I had to pay over $1000 to receive. Granted, I received the review copy of the book for free. But while I…

  • Reading Scripture With The Reformers

    The title of Timothy George’s Reading Scripture With The Reformers can be somewhat misleading. The book itself is not a collection of various Reformers’ readings of Scripture. Nor is it a book with extended discussions on the method the Reformers used to read Scripture. For those topics, you may want to look into the Reformation Commentary on…