By Matthew Barrett Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus. By Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. If you are a Christian parent then you know, as I do, how easy it can be to just set down the rules to be obeyed for your kids and [...]
Reverberation: How God’s Word Brings Light, Freedom, and Action to His People. By Jonathan Leeman. Chicago: Moody, 2011. Reviewed by Fred Zaspel Surely every Christian acknowledges the power of God’s Word. Well, at least as a creedal statement we all would acknowledge it. But whether our practice measures up to our creed is the question. Specifically, [...]
Interview by Matthew Barrett I had the pleasure of asking Gerald Bray to answer a handful of questions about his new book, Galatians, Ephesians, in the new Reformation Commentary on Scripture Series, edited by Timothy George. Gerald Bray (M.Litt., D.Litt., University of Paris-Sorbonne) taught full-time at Beeson Divinity School in the areas of church history, [...]
Wisdom Christology: How Jesus Becomes God’s Wisdom for Us. By Daniel J. Ebert IV. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2011. Review by Luke Stamps “Wisdom and Christology belong together” (2). This juxtaposition is one of the primary assumptions of Daniel Ebert’s new book, Wisdom Christology: How Jesus Becomes God’s Wisdom for Us. Ebert, a former missionary who [...]
Don’t Call It a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day. Edited by Kevin DeYoung. Wheaton, IL: Crossway 2011. Reviewed by Aaron Cline Hanbury Many quotes and phrases leave a large impact on history, so much so that such sayings need no citation. Without hesitation, most Americans recognize “Four score and seven years ago” [...]
Big Truths for Young Hearts. By Bruce A. Ware. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2009. Reviewed by Fred G. Zaspel Professional theologians often get a bad wrap. Many think the entire “theological enterprise” is irrelevant. Among those a bit more Christian in their thinking, many still consider it boring (and if they do, shame on their pastors [...]
Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals: Applying the Gospel at the Unique Challenges of Death. By Brian Croft & Phil Newton. Day One, 2011. Reviewed by Michael Nelson There is a balance when it comes to funerals. One minister may quote several unconnected verses from scripture, while another might condemn an unbelieving corpse to eternal judgment. Both probably [...]
Galatians. Thomas Schreiner. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. Reviewed by Matthew Claridge The church in 2011 is blessed with many excellent New Testament commentaries on the market. Until recently, the letter to the Galatians may not have been numbered among them. A rigorous, faithful, and accessible commentary on the letter has been surprisingly hard to come [...]
The Last Days of Dispensationalism: A Scholarly Critique of Popular Misconceptions. By Alistair W. Donaldson. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011. Reviewed by Brent E. Parker Luring readers with an intriguing and provocative title, theologian Alistair Donaldson of Laidlaw College in Christchurch, New Zealand, offers a concise and well-argued case against the popular forms of [...]
Ten Myths About Calvinism: Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition. By Kenneth J. Stewart. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011. Reviewed by Matthew Barrett There is no theological view caricatured as much as Calvinism. And if you think of yourself as a Calvinist, you may not be exempt from such a problem either. Arminians and [...]
