This was my second reading of this book, the first being in 2005 when it was published. Since I was on my way to Turkey to speak to a number of Russian pastors about postmodernism and the emerging church, I thought it would be good to reread Carson. This is one of those books that […]
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The Roots of Obama’s Rage
This is the book on which the movie 2014 is based. What an eye-opener this is! D’Souza is Indian born and a student of Obama’s life and what makes the man tick. After thinking he had Obama figured out, he finally came to the conclusion that Obama is living out the life of his activist […]
The Cross and Christian Ministry
Carson’s expositions on First and Second Corinthians have been a blessing to me. These come in a series of smaller volumes from Baker Books. The title of this volume interested me and I found it an encouraging read as well as an instructive lesson on the first half of First Corinthians. Carson often paints a […]
How Successful People Think
This book was loaned to me by a friend who is a avid reader (along with a number of other things to read). I’ve not been a big Maxwell fan because I always find him more secular than sacred. But we probably should read more things like this in our “spare reading time.” It made […]
Baptist Distinctives
We welcome new and fresh writing on Baptist polity. Kevin Bauder is research professor of systematic theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Plymouth, MN. The more Dr. Bauder writes, the better it is for fundamental Baptists. Bauder departs from the traditional acrostic outline for Baptist distinctives and presents the material in six divisions as […]
Histories and Fallacies
The subtitle of this book is: Problems faced in the writing of history. It is just as helpful to consider the information in this book when reading history so that you can have a more discerning eye. Trueman is one of my favorite commentators on historical issues ranging from the Reformation to contemporary evangelicalism. He […]
The Surprising Work of God
This book is a history of the relationship between Harold John Ockenga and Billy Graham in the mid to later 1900’s. The author, Rosell, is the son of evangelist Merv Rosell. The Rosell’s were good friends and fellow ministers with both Harold Ockenga and Billy Graham. If you are interested in the history of evangelicalism […]
Right Reason and the Princeton Mind
This book is subtitled: “An Unorthodox Proposal.” Helseth sets out to defend the theologians of Old Princeton (Alexander, Hodge, Warfield, Machen) against the accepted scholarly opinion of their theology. The accepted opinion states that these men illegitimately borrowed categories and philosophies from Enlightenment thinking, such as Scottish Common Sense Realism and Baconianism. And so, this […]
Queen of All
The sub title to this book is “Queen of Rome, Queen of Islam, Queen of All.” The proposition is that Mary worship has engulfed the whole world without anyone realizing it. It is easy to catalog all of the apparitions (so-called appearances) of Mary throughout history and even today. The authors also document how Mary […]
The Only Hope of the Church or World
See this month’s article (Aletheia, June, 2012) for my appreciation of this book. Riley was a fundamentalist from Minneapolis who fought against the social gospel of his day that was being pushed by liberals. The liberal approach was to change the definitions of the church and the kingdom and take the emphasis away from personal […]