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  • License to Kill: A Field Manual For Mortifying Sin

    This past Sunday, we continued our sermon series through James at CrossPointe. We’re taking it pretty slow (so far at least) and hitting 3 or so verses at a time. In the sermon on James 1:12-15, our pastor Jared referenced John Owen’s famous quotation, “Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” Highly appropriate…

  • Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

    Commentaries are an area of review I haven’t done much in work yet. I say yet since between today and tomorrow I’ll offer two commentary reviews, and hopefully in the future I’ll have a few more. Today we’ve got Daniel Treier’s Proverbs and Ecclesiastes from the Brazos Theological Commentary series. This was my first exposure to the series, and…

  • Psalms As Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically

    Psalms as Torah is the most recent book published in the Studies in Theological Interpretation series. I’m gradually trying to collect all of them, and am only 1 short at this point, though this is only my 2nd to review (here’s the first). So far though, this is my favorite one and it has pushed me to start…

  • Fools Rush In Where Monkeys Fear to Tread

    Though it’s been a while since he’s made an on appearance on here, Carl Trueman is probably one of my favorite writers. While there is certainly a plethora of Christian theologians writing books, and many of those books well written treatises, few of those books are written with the literary and satirical flourish that Carl…

  • Salvation Accomplished By The Son: The Work of Christ

    A few weeks back, I told you I was working my way through this book for lent. There I mentioned that Robert Peterson divides his study on the work of Christ into two sections: Events Pictures As Peterson himself says, there is really only one work of Christ, but that work accomplishes our salvation through nine Events:…

  • The Character of Christian Scripture

    [This review is part of the What Is Theological Interpretation? series] In case you wondering, no, I didn’t spend the weekend feverishly reading so I could have so many book reviews this week. I’m trying to get caught up on all the stellar books I’ve been sent to review and have finished reading over the last month…

  • Practicing Theological Interpretation

    [This review is part of the What Is Theological Interpretation? series] Full disclosure, this week is going to be pretty book focused. But, hey, that’s not really anything new is it? Yesterday, I gave you a review of Invitation to Biblical Interpretation, which is a textbook and clocks in at 850+ pages. Today, thanks to Baker Academic sending along…

  • Books Arrived and Soon to Come

    Taking a page out of Nick Norelli’s playbook, I thought I’d let you know more often about books that show up at my doorstep. Today, I not only got a few, I was able to order several thanks you all clicking through the links I provide to Westminster Bookstore. As you can see to the…

  • Invitation to Biblical Interpretation

    There are more than a few books out there on how to interpret the Bible. I’ve got several on my shelf, and full disclosure, probably will even buy more in the future (once I’m off book probation of course, or if I earn a gift certificate by you clicking through links). In looking at Invitation…

  • 10 Books On…

    [This is the table of contents for an on-going series called 10 Books On…] Previously, I had used a page on the blog for listing resources. All I had really gotten though was various lists of 10 books on different topics. So, I thought to myself, “this would probably make a good series.” And here…