I finished my daily reading book for 2013. I try to do this each year. It gives one a good insight into a great man of history and serves as a good source of devotional thought each day (I never allow these to replace the reading of God’s Word every day). John Newton is best […]
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The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation
I read this 1976 book again. The old Dallas Seminary of those days was so good at dispensationalism and eschatology. Here Walvoord (President of Dallas at the time) critiques the 1973 postribulationalist book by Robert Gundry, The Church and the Tribulation. Gundry had become popular as a premillennialist and mostly a dispensationalist. So his postribulationalism […]
Saints and Strangers
I have owned a copy of this 1945 history book for a number of years but had not read it until this Thanksgiving season. Born in Colorado, Willison (1896-1972) specialized in American history. He even wrote the CliffsNotes for The Federalist and also for Pilgrim’s Progress. Sometimes it is hard to read a lengthy history book (this being […]
Killing Kennedy
I am reading the trilogy by O’Reilly of Killing Lincoln, which I enjoyed very much, Killing Kennedy, which I finally enjoyed at the end, and, later this year, Killing Jesus, which I am in doubt about. Kennedy was a unique American President, of which there is no doubt. He was the first Catholic president coming from a well-to-do […]
God Has A Wonderful Plan For Your Life: ...
I was glad to read this book by Comfort. It is a subject all of us must contemplate today: Is everyone saved who thinks they are saved? Comfort gives his own history as an evangelist as an example of how he has seen many people “make a profession” of Christ and then walk away from […]
The Vanishing Word
This is a Focal Point Series book of which Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is the general editor. The subtitle of the book is “The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World.” Hunt takes the reader from the world of the Scriptures, given in verbal form, to the Reformation and then to the modern day. […]
The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent
The alarming growth of Islam around the world and especially in the United States is a subject of interest to all Christians. Lutzer does his usual good job of documenting the rise of Islam with its government of Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood, and its goal of eventual takeover of the whole world in the […]
Worship in the Melting Pot
I had not read this 2002 book on worship by the pastor of Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle until this year. I have heard Masters preach often at the Tabernacle so I can visualize the way he was talking about worship. English worship is by nature different from American worship in incidental details. Their worship is more […]
Baptists the Only Thorough Reformers
This book was originally published in 1876 by U.D. Ward and Sheldon & Company of New York. It was the first book chosen to be published by Backus Books in 1980. John Quincy Adams (1825-1881) was a Baptist pastor in New Jersey and New York. Adams especially defends the ordinance of baptism as an immersion […]
The Rapture Question
I recently reread this book on a Kindle version because I had loaned my hard copy out which never found its way home. I thoroughly enjoy Walvoord on the Second Coming especially on the rapture. This book contains a progress of thought on the rapture in the New Testament, an evaluation of the recent postribulational […]