I met Gary Gilley recently and became acquainted with his writings. He also wrote, This Little Church Went To Market: The church in the age of entertainment. I Just Wanted More Land is a critique of The Prayer Of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson (see my short review on our web site). Gilley is right in […]
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Breaking the DaVinci Code
After reading and reviewing (see our web site) The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, I have been reading various reviews and many refutations of the book. As I noted in the review, this book (The DaVinci Code) is riddled with historical errors and a preconceived agenda which makes it ripe for the rewriting of history […]
The God Who Hears
Reviewed by Don Shrader If ever I teach a class on prayer, this would be my textbook. Of all the books I have read or perused on prayer, this was the most practical. Hunter forthrightly addresses those issues surrounding prayer that all of us have that inhibits our prayers and our prayer time. While his […]
The Biblical Faith of Baptists, Vol 2
I have been reading this series of books this year. Each volume contains the messages that were preached at the Fundamental Baptist Congresses of North America, beginning in 1963 through 1974. This second volume (preached in Grand Rapids in 1966) contains messages by names such as, A.V. Henderson, Richard Clearwaters, Robert Ketchum, Monroe Parker, G.B. […]
The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus C...
Emmerich became a nun, at the age of 29, in the Convent of Agnetenberg, at Dulmen, Germany. She supposedly received the “favour from the Lord” (8) to receive “stigmas” or wounds in her flesh in order to bleed and suffer “to expiate the sin by suffering” (15) for others, as well as “to feel a […]
The Secret Sayings of Jesus
There is a renewed interest these days in the non-canonical writings about the New Testament, especially The Gospel of Thomas. Some of this is due to the recent Jesus Seminar. Some of this is due to archaeological findings contemporary with the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 1945, in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, many apocryphal scrolls were found […]
Studying the Historical Jesus
I found Bock’s book to be a good review of inter-testament history and the reliability of the Gospel record. Bock is professor in New Testament at Dallas Seminary and has recently become known for his Progressive Dispensationalism (which shows through in only a couple places). Bock is rightly critical of the Jesus Seminar and of […]
Truth or Consequences
The subtitle is: the promise & perils of postmodernism. I have enjoyed and learned from Erickson’s writings on postmodernism. This is probably his most detailed and philosophical work on the subject. It is not a place to begin working on the subject of postmodernism but it certainly is profitable reading for those who have already […]
The DaVinci Code
The interest in the so-called “lost gospels” as well as the curiosity over DaVinci’s “Last Supper” caused me to read this book. Basically, it is all old hat. The author writes as if Christians have never heard theories of the mother-son “sacred feminine” worship or that there is apocryphal literature that was rejected as non-canonical. […]
Loving Christ
I received this book as a gift. It is a part II publication from Zondervan (the first being Following Christ). Stowell, president of Moody Bible Institute, gives applications from gospel accounts in the life of Christ. This kind of writing is different from traditional treatments on the life of Christ from men like G.C. Morgan […]