Category: Book Reviews
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Lit! Reading With Priorities and In Community
[A review copy of Lit! was provided by Crossway] Monday, we examined the first part of Tony Reinke’s Lit! Yesterday, we examined the second part. Today, as promised, I’d like to go into a little more detail and explain what I’m changing after reading Lit! A perennial problem for me since leaving Dallas and graduating has been narrowing…
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Lit! Some Practical Advice on Book Reading
[A review copy of Lit! was provided by Crossway] Yesterday, we looked at part 1 of Tony Reinke’s book Lit! Today we’ll dig into the part 2 and see what kind of advice he offers us readers. For space sake, and so I don’t take too many tangents explaining my own approach on some of the advice Reinke gives,…
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Lit! A Theology of Books and Reading
Tony Reinke, Lit: A Christian Guide to Reading Books. Wheaton: Crossway, September 2011. 208 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! Tony Reinke, formerly a journalist, but now a theological researcher, writer, and blogger, has written a book that I feel like I should have written. You see, I’ve spent…
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Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus
Bill Clem, Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus. Wheaton: Crossway, September, 2011. 240 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the review copy! As a great tandem book to Community, Re:Lit also recently published Disciple: Getting Your Identity from Jesus. In this book, Mars Hill Pastor Bill Clem introduces readers to some of the basic truths…
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Jesus + Nothing = Everything
An alternate title for this book could have been “Gospel Mathematics” but then I bet few people would have wanted to read it (I probably would have still anyway). The premise is fairly simple: Jesus… plus nothing… equals everything. Tchividjian explains: It’s a statement that’s set up as an equation, of course, but what this…
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Right Reason and the Princeton Mind: An Unorthodox Proposal
The subtitle of Paul Kjoss Helseth’s book has a hint of irony to it. On the one hand, his proposal concerning the giants of Old Princeton (Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, B. B. Warfield, and J. Gresham Machen) may be “unorthodox” because it cuts against the consensus. On the other hand, his proposal demonstrates that they…
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Playing Hurt
Brian Goins is the pastor of Renaissance Bible Church in Charlotte, NC. He and his wife Jennifer regularly speak at Weekend to Remember events for Family Life, and he has also worked as the creative director for Insight for Living. Like yours truly, he is also a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary. In this book,…
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The Beginning and End of Wisdom
Before getting a copy of this book, I had never heard of Douglas Sean O’Donnell. After what I’ve read in this book, I’d like to hear some more. O’Donnell is the senior pastor of New Covenant Church in Naperville, IL and along with this book, has written on worship and Old Testament songs. Overview This…
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The World-Tilting Gospel
Dan Phillips is perhaps best known for his posts at the team blog, Pyromaniacs, but he also has his own personal blog to boot. He’s a graduate of Talbot Seminary and has taught extensively on the book of Proverbs and the sovereignty of God. In this book, he has constructed a easy to read explanation…
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A Trinitarian Reading List
As a kind of follow up to yesterday’s post, I’d like to encourage you, if you’re fuzzy on this whole “doctrine of the Trinity” business, to pick up a copy of Fred Sander’s The Deep Things of God while its still cheap. Right now its only $2.99 on Kindle! Whether or not you’ve got a…