This is the second book I’ve read (and reviewed) by Gary Gilley. In This Little Church, Gilley evaluates the contemporary church movement primarily from his own background and familiarity with psychology. He finds the methodology and motivation of the contemporary church almost identical if not primarily borrowed from the world of psychology. Our society is […]
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The Down-Grade Controversy
This is a relatively small booklet which is a collection of the monthly articles Spurgeon wrote in The Sword and Trowel during this controversy including one related sermon. The Baptist Union was being infiltrated by German Rationalistic thinking especially in its denial of the authority of Scripture. Spurgeon was among the first to recognize the […]
The Means and Methods to be Adopted for ...
I was being guided around Edinburgh by a friend who was intending to spend the afternoon in the public library. I had a note with me from an email friend who had written his Ph.D. dissertation on John Angell James while he was at the University of Edinburgh. In the card catalog of the library […]
The Biblical Faith of Baptists, Vols 4 &
These are the last two of five volumes which are the printed messages at the Fundamental Baptist Congresses. My original purpose for reading these five volumes was to compare them to “The Fundamentals” preached and written a generation before (in the early 1900s). I was curious to see the similarities and the progression of thinking […]
Plain Mr. Knox
This is a powerfully written history of the life and career of the spiritual father of the Church of Scotland (Skeffington & Sons, London, 1960). Knox, of humble birth in Haddington, Scotland in 1513, would live in one of the most tumultuous times of English-Scottish history. A converted Catholic (and life-long deadly foe), Knox was […]
Preaching Christ Today
While with missionaries in Scotland, I came across this small book by Torrance, who was Christian Dogmatics professor at the University of Edinburgh from 1952 until 1978, and a member of the Church of Scotland General Assembly. The book is a defense of the Incarnation of Christ in the light of today’s science. Torrance believes […]
Genesis 1:1: Still the Last Word
Intelligent Design presents the idea as a whole new area of science wherein the researchers base findings on the premise that some form of design was the origin for empirical discoveries. Author William Dembski clearly states that this is not the same as Creation science (faith based) or theistic evolution, which often includes the idea […]
The Biblical Faith of Baptists, Vol 3
This congress was held in my home church, Landmark Baptist Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, the year I graduated from high school, 1968. The speakers were Tom Malone, James T. Jeremiah, Ernest Pickering, Noel Smith, Ed Nelson, Bryce Augsburger and others. This is the third of five volumes that contain all the messages in printed form. The […]
Finding God in the Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of my favorite works of fiction! J.R.R. Tolkien left us a masterful story that has captured the imagination of yet another generation since its first publication. However, I must disagree with these authors’ premise that one can “find God” therein. Even though the authors carefully avoid calling […]
Why Us?
This book was written 20 years ago but is still one of the best on the subject, and carries the comfortable and yet scholarly style of its well-known author. Books on the subject of pain or loss in the believer’s life can range from psychological babble to theological rabble. This is a much more balanced […]