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  • Formed For The Glory of God

    Kyle Strobel is the co-founder and director of Metamorpha Ministries and the editor (along with Jamin Goggin) of Reading The Christian Spiritual Classics.[ref]Which I’ll be reviewing soon[/ref]You can connect with him online at his website or on Twitter. This volume, Formed For The Glory of God: Learning From the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards is part of…

  • Outreach And The Artist: Sharing The Gospel With The Arts

    It is hard to imagine two books could be any more different. Back in the fall, I reviewed Constantine Campbell’s Paul and Union With Christ, an encyclopedic study of both the exegetical and theological usage of Paul’s “in Christ” language. It was thorough, exhaustive, and top of the line NT scholarship. Apparently, Campbell is not…

  • Sex & Money: Pleasures That Leave You Empty and Grace That Satisfies

    For a while now, I’ve been a big fan of Paul Tripp’s books. Back in the fall I was able to read through his Dangerous Calling. Though I didn’t do a formal review, I did offer some extended thoughts on the book here and here. It is a book I think every pastor or potential…

  • Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of The Church

    When I was in seminary, we used Bruce Demarest’s The Cross and Salvation as our textbook in soteriology. That was my introduction to the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series, and I liked it so much I picked up another volume, To Know and Love God, which proved very useful for theological method. When I was…

  • Nothing Is Impossible With God

    I was initially hesitant to take part in this blog tour for Nothing Is Impossible With God. Not because I lack enthusiasm for most New Growth Press releases, but rather I wasn’t sure if I’d really connect with the book. Consider the description: No one likes to feel weak. Just thinking about our inadequate resources can fill…

  • Won’t Singing Too Many Songs About The Cross Depress Us?

  • Imagery In The Psalms

    Psalm 23 has been particularly cherished in Jewish and Christian spirituality, though it is most associated with funerals. Its preciousness derives in part from its lyricism and metaphor. One cannot tie down any aspect of some concrete situation that its author had in mind. Everything is imagery. The consequence is that readers can directly access…

  • Plea Prayers In The Psalms

    The balance between protest or expression of pain, and plea or request, is the reverse of that which characterizes Christian prayer. Christians are reticent about telling God things that God presumably knows, though they are then oddly unrestrained about itemizing what God should do even though they recognize that God could work this out. Prayer…

  • Worship As Identity Formation

    When you sing your praise, lament, and gratitude, you are not only—nor even principally—expressing your feelings or aspirations or beliefs. No, you are reconfiguring yourself as one who praises, one who laments, and one who is grateful, and at the same time making more intimate (more full of kisses and embraces and caresses and delight)…

  • Charity and Its Fruits: Review and Reading Plan

    If it’s alright with you, I’m going to deviate from my review script just a tad on this one. Since I know you’re probably curious, this is for a couple of reasons. First, unlike most of the books I review, this one isn’t technically new. Rather, it’s a new edition of Jonathan Edwards’ classic Charity…