Bainton is the well-known author of Here I Stand,” the biography of Martin Luther. This is a 1956 “Anvil Original” by Nostrand Company. This series is in paperback and very readable in each volume (the is the second I’ve read by Bainton). Though about 200 pages, the book is arranged with the first 100 pages […]
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Long Ago Told
This is the seventeenth book I have read of the nineteen that Wright wrote. To be precise, this book was the fourteenth that he wrote, being published in 1929 by D. Appleton & Company. Long Ago Told is one of the more rare HBW books and is worth much more than most of the others, […]
Not A Fan
This is a 2011 Zondervan publication from Idleman who is the teaching pastor at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY. Idleman’s proposition is that there is a difference between being a fan of Jesus Christ and being a follower. The by-line reads, “becoming a completely committed follower of Jesus.” In some places he describes this […]
Solving the Bible Puzzle
I am happy to recommend a new book by my brother Don Shrader. Don is the oldest of four siblings and has always been a leader in the things of God, whether it be in the family, at his local church, in his military service as an instructor pilot, or in his life’s work as […]
Memoir of John Bunyan
I bought a book online for my Kindle titled Works of John Bunyan—Complete. For a few dollars these days you can buy a lot of reading material in electronic format. I have learned to endure it and profit from it although I’ll always enjoy reading the actual book much more. One of the downsides of […]
Philippians: Triumph in Christ
As I finished preaching through the book of Philippians, having used a few different types of commentaries, I thought it appropriate to make a comment about Walvoord’s small commentary on the book. I have loved using the older Dallas men (Walvoord, Ryrie, Pentecost, Toussaint, Unger) in commentary form because I can enjoy their pretribulational, premillennial, […]
Crittenden
John Fox Jr. (1862-1919) was a war correspondent and a graduate in English from Harvard. He served during the Spanish-American War and rode with the Rough Riders. This book (1900) is a story about a soldier who left his Kentucky Bluegrass home and fought in that war, so this story is told from a startlingly […]
The Acceptable Sacrifice: The Excellency...
This book by Bunyan is profitable to the modern reader because it deals with a universal and lasting problem: that of the human heart. Bunyan saw the need and advantage of a broken heart for the believer, and a necessity for the unbeliever. I will let Bunyan speak for himself here. “There has, indeed, at […]
Of Antichrist and His Ruin
We may not think anything of John Bunyan other than his wonderful Pilgrim’s Progress and even with that we would be miles ahead of those who don’t know him. Yet I have found that his other books open a door to Bunyan that I did not know even from reading his great allegory. Bunyan was […]
Dispensationalism and the History of Red...
This is a 2015 Moody book but produced primarily, actually entirely, by Dallas Theological Seminary professors and/or graduates. Being a dispensationalist myself, I enjoyed the book and profited from its material. I am glad for any scholarly writing that defends the dispensational approach to Scripture because it is being attacked in many unfortunate ways these […]