Category: Book Reviews
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Historical Theology: The Canonicity and Inspiration of Scripture
[This post is part of the Historical Theology mini-review series] Like Grudem’s layout in Systematic Theology, Allison starts with the Doctrine of the Word of God in Historical Theology. Each author covers the canonicity, inspiration, authority, inerrancy, sufficiency, clarity, and necessity of Scripture. Allison starts with canonicity, while Grudem starts with inerrancy. Allison combines sufficiency and necessity into…
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Practicing Affirmation
Paperback: 176pgs Publisher: Crossway (January 19, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1433522438 Amazon ($10.08) Westminster ($9.93) Thanks to Crossway for providing this review copy! Author Sam Crabtree is the lead pastor for life training at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, which if you’re not familiar is John Piper’s church. Piper does the preaching, Crabtree does the vision casting…
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In the Beginning Was the Word: Language – A God-Centered Approach
Vern Poythress is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. The present volume is the second of three in a series by investigating disciplines related to the field of New Testament studies. Published after the book on science and before the book on sociology, this treatment of language is perhaps the…
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Westminster Youth Ministry Booksale
Westminster has a good selection of books on youth ministry for sale: Family-Based Youth Ministry: Reaching the Been-There, Done-That Generation Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church No Guts, No Glory: How to Build a Youth Ministry That Lasts Critique of Modern Youth Ministry Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most…
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Meaning At The Movies
Author Grant Horner is associate professor of English at The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, CA. In Meaning at the Movies, he offers “an extended meditation on why we have movies at all, why they are so powerful, and why Christians need to think deeply and theologically about film art—indeed, about all human cultural production”…
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When Will My Life Not Suck?
Author Ramon Presson is a clinically certified marriage and family therapist and the founder of LifeChange Counseling and Marriage Center in Franklin, TN. The style and clarify of his writing shows that this is clearly not his first book, but it is his first book published by New Growth Press. It is always helpful to…
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The Christian Faith: A Concise Critical Review
I know I said no more talk about The Christian Faith, but since I had to do this for my last seminary class, I thought I would share it here. If you want more extensive discussion, click here. If not, read on for the most salient points. Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor…
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BECNT Commentaries on Clearance
Just noticed that Westminster’s bookstore has the Baker Exegetical Commentaries on the New Testament on clearance (50% off). The titles available are: Matthew Mark Luke 1:1-9:50 Luke 9:51-24:53 John Acts Romans 1 Corinthians Ephesians Philippians James 1 Peter Jude & 2 Peter 1-3 John Revelation I’ve got several of these myself in Logos and have…
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Branded
Author Tim Sinclair is both a radio personality and a marketer who has helped organizations from McDonalds to Word Records brand themselves (as in advertise, not poke each other with hot irons). This is his first foray into writing a book (from what I can tell) but you might not pick that up from the…
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Am I Really A Christian?
Author Mike McKinley previously served on the pastoral staff for Capitol Hill Baptist church before moving to Guilford Baptist Church. This book is actually his second contribution to the 9Marks series having already written Church Planting is for Wimps. Both of these are fairly short books, but that’s just because they get straight to the point…