I read this book on Kindle for an online class. The two volumes were first printed in 1996 and 1997. Volume 2 takes the reader through the passion week of Christ unto His ascension. It reads like a harmony of the gospels with a few paragraphs of comments after each section. It is basically sound, […]
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Easter Enigma
This is a 1992 book on the chronological problems that revolve around the resurrection of Jesus. The supposed descrepencies in the gospel accounts have caused many to doubt the veracity of the gospels. Wenham concludes that these can be reconciled in a good manner which retains the integrity of the four gospels. Wenham will include […]
Crucifixion
Martin Hengel wrote this book in 1977 but somehow I missed it in all my reading on the life of Christ and New Testament history. It is a short (98 pages) but very detailed presentation of the history of crucifixion in the ancient or Biblical world. Much of the book is detailed, footnoted, descriptions of […]
The Final Days of Jesus
Kostenberger and Taylor present the events of the passion week in chronological order. It reads as a harmony of the gospels followed by a brief commentary after each section. The details are good and written from a conservative evangelical point of view. I would disagree with the authors in their applications to ecumenicalism and anti-denominationalism, […]
Chronological Aspects of the Life of Chr...
I had read my first copy of Hoehner years ago and have since lost the copy. I was glad for the chance to read him again. If you enjoy New Testament history and the Life of Christ in any way you have to enjoy a book like this. Setting the times and dates in the […]
A Short Life of Christ
Everett F. Harrison wrote this book in 1968 and it was published by Eerdmans. Harrison’s purpose for writing is to give an overall picture of Christ’s life but not dwell too much on the details. Harrison seems to be conservative in his basic positions on Christ i.e., His deity, atonement, and bodily resurrection and ascension. […]
Alone with God
This is a 1995 reprint by Victor Books of an earlier study by MacArthur on prayer. I was taken by the title and was not disappointed. Prayer must be our primary way of fellowship with God and our first weapon in our fight for truth. The bulk of the book is a study on the […]
Should Christians Drink?
I’m adding one more book to my already growing shelf of books on Bible wine and the Christian. I admit unapologetically that I abstain from any use of alcoholic beverage. I favor the two-wine theory of Bible wine, but I have no problem with the approach Masters and others take, that the wine in the […]
The Coming of the Holy Spirit
Mal Couch is a good dispensational pretribulational premillennialist. We usually find him writing on prophetic subjects. In this study of the Holy Spirit he takes the reader through the Old and New Testaments book by book reviewing the various teachings on the Holy Spirit in each book and each age. The more controversial views would […]
Holiness the False and the True (A Secon...
Rereading good books is a great past time. I first bought this book and read it in 2004 while in Scotland one summer helping a missionary. It was in a small used book store in North Berwick not far from the fish and chips stand (both were in my usual circle of evening walking). Ironside […]