Editor’s note: After almost 30 years of writing book reviews for this website I come to a unique turn of events. The author of this book, Dr. Matthew C. Shrader, is my youngest son. It is a blessing to know that when a son stands on the shoulders of a father he reaches higher and […]
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Finding God’s Will?
Kevin Bauder wrote this small book in 2021 on God’s will. I think it is a great help to pastor’s and church people alike. Bauder believes that we cannot look for miracles, signs, or even fleeces, but we can look for God’s providential guidance. God does have an individual will for each believer but it […]
Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview
This is a 2012, 2014 book by Jerry Bergman with the subtitle: “How the Nazi eugenic crusade for a superior race caused the greatest holocaust in world history.” Bergman tackles an ongoing issue of how much Hitler and his leaders believed Darwin’s survival of the fittest to the degree that they actually, and practically, pursued […]
Men and Women in the Church
This is a 2021 book by Kevin DeYoung on the role of male and female at home and at church. DeYoung is a traditional complementarian who believes in the leadership of men with the obligation of husbands to love their wives and the followership of wives with the obligation to be submissive. He says, “So […]
Nineteen Eighty Four
It was only in 1949 that Eric Authur Blair (better known as George Orwell) wrote his most famous book, Nineteen Eighty Four (now printed simply as 1984). Blair died in 1950. I hadn’t opened this book since High School English class but with the current culture in America I was interested again. It did not […]
Courageous Grandparenting
This 2018 book by Cavin Harper, founder and president of Christian Parenting Network, has been mentioned and recommended by numerous other writers in this subject. The strength of the book is his strong promotion of grandparents as necessary examples and speakers to the younger generations. I thought the best section included grandparents as gatekeepers and […]
Post Christian
I have read Gene Edward Veith, Jr. since I first learned of postmodernism from his book Postmodern Times in 1994. Veith considers this book to be a follow-up of the previous work. He has also written numerous other books on related subjects. This is a 2020 book and is a great update on the current […]
Biblical Handbook for Dealing with the S...
Pastor Shane Belding is a Canadian pastor living in International Falls, MN and pastoring across the border at Victory Baptist Church in Ft. Frances, Ontario. I have been with pastor Belding and the church many times. Shane is a competent counselor and serves both lay people and local pastors, especially on the Canadian side. Canada […]
The Great Concern
Edward Pearse (1633-1673) was a dissenting pastor in England and yet was appointed lecturer at Westminster Abbey. In his “To the Reader” Pearse explains that he knew he was dying and he wanted to leave these thoughts about death and dying to those behind. He begins the second chapter, “An Important and Hard Task,” with […]
American Individualism
This is a 1923 book by the 31st President of the United States. Hoover was a champion of individualism as an American ideal. This was written in ’23, six years before he became President and before the Great Depression that plagued his administration and made him a very unpopular President. He writes concerning individualism, “Our […]