Before Dr. Pickering went home to be with the Lord he wrote, among the many books he authored, what I think may be his most important words to our generation. The booklet is a reply to Charles Swindoll’s The Grace Awakening (1990, 1996). Swindoll caricatures Fundamentalists as being “squint-eyed legalists spying out and attacking another’s […]
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Life and Letters of John Broadus
We all ought to read more biographies, especially of men of God who have greatly influenced church history. John Broadus was a nineteenth-century Baptist and Greek scholar and was one of the men who founded Southern Baptist Seminary. The book is written by his successor and son-in-law, A.T. Robertson. Robertson collected correspondence to and from […]
Types In Hebrews
Have any Christian ministers of the twentieth century not profited from the writings of Sir Robert Anderson? Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1901, head of Scotland Yard, yet preaching since the age of 19, Anderson ought to be read.
Unveiling Islam
This is an excellent book to help non-Muslims better understand the history, nature and tenets of Islam. While the writing is a little disjointed at times, it does help those not familiar with true Islam to better grasp its realities. Raised Muslim, the Caner brothers converted to Christianity as teenagers. Both became pastors, earned Ph.D.’s […]
The Next Chapter After the Last
Many of Tozers articles are being compiled into book form for present day readers. (This and others were done by Christian Publications, Camp Hill, PA). The unique article used in the title was Tozer’s defense of the resurrection of Christ. All other biographies end the last chapter with death, but the gospels have a chapter […]
The Spirituality of the Cross
In a world of information, when we learn good things from a number of sources, it is good to be pulled back to the reality of basic doctrinal beliefs. Such was my disappointing experience from reading this book. I cut my teeth on postmodernism ten years ago by reading Postmodern Times by Gene Veith and […]
Scotland’s Battles for Spiritual Indepen
This history of the Church of Scotland includes John Knox’s battle for independence from Rome and his part in the Reformation; the Covenanters who established an independent General Assembly within Presbyterianism; and the Evangelical revival of the Haldane brothers in Edinburgh, as well as Thomas McCrie and Thomas Chalmers. The Presbyterian Church of Scotland still […]
The Defense of the Gospel in the New Tes...
(This is a guest review by Doug Kutilek which also appears in his online paper “As I See It”) In this small but excellent book, we have the substance of 5 lectures delivered by the late acclaimed Pauline scholar F. F. Bruce in 1958 at Calvin College. The theme of these lectures is the Apostolic […]
Biblical Separation
In my estimation, this book, first published in 1979, should be one of the classics for those who hold any interest in biblical separation. On the other hand, I have not seen Pickering or this book referenced in any articles on biblical/church separation I have read lately. Many of the same issues confronted by Pickering […]
Contagious Holiness
I was interested in this book because of the title. It is part of the “New Studies in Biblical Theology” series edited by D.A. Carson. Blomberg critically reviews the meals that Jesus ate “with publicans and sinners” and other meals. He explores the proposition made by many as to whether Jesus was a “party animal.” […]