Category: Practical Theology
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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…
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The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context
On first glance, I imagine many readers would find this book either immediately attractive or immediately repulsive. The reasons for this are either you’re a) interested in biblical counseling so the title grabs you or b) you’ve had a bad experience with someone promoting “nouthetic” counseling and decided you wanted to have nothing to do…
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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…
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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…
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A Commentary on the Psalms Volume 1
On Wednesday, I had a review of Psalms as Torah, looking at how it encourages deeper meditations on the Psalter. Yesterday, I offered a review of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, which is the first commentary I’ve reviewed on here. Today’s post is somewhat of a cross between the two and we’ll look at Allen P. Ross’…
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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…
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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…
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Triperspectival Spiritual Formation
Over at Provocations and Pantings, Timmy Brister is starting to unpack his vision for gospel-centered spiritual formation. It is also highly triperspectival, which is why I’m sharing it with you here. So far, there’s three posts: Background Triperspectival Framework The Gospel Forms Because it is such a great image that Brister is unpacking, I thought…
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10 Ironies in Real Marriage
A while back, I offered my thoughts on Mark and Grace Drisoll’s Real Marriage. Last week, Heath Lambert’s review was published in the Spring 2012 issue of The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Lambert’s review is much more critical than mine, which I think should serve as a warning sign. Here’s 10 ironies that…
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Lifted: Experiencing The Resurrection Life
Author: Sam Allberry Title: Lifted: Experiencing The Resurrection Life Publisher: P&R Publishing (February 27, 2012) Paperback: 144pgs Reading Level: General Reader Audience Appeal: Anyone, but especially those looking for a short introduction to a practical theology of the resurrection Amazon Westminster [You’re reading this review of Lifted because I asked P&R for a review copy and they said…