Mayhue is the Senior Vice-President and Dean of the Master’s Seminary. This book has been around for a few years and parallels much of John MacArthur’s works on the Charismatics. The book is very readable (at only 150 pages) and can be recommended to friends who are struggling in this area. Many examples are used […]
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The Biblical Faith of Baptists, Vol 1
I was given this book years ago by my friend, Lon Stewart. I had read bits and pieces of it but not all at once. In light of some controversies among Baptists today, this congress was an amazing meeting. The speakers included Wendell Zimmerman, Howard Sugden, Paul Jackson, Monroe Parker, John R. Rice, Lee Roberson, […]
Balanced Apologetics
I have passed by this 1984 book in the book store but decided it was time to read it due to its sub-title: Using Evidences and Presuppositions in Defense of the Faith. The classic battle within apologetics has been whether to be an evidentialist or a presuppositionalist. The former argues that we can present our […]
A New Call To Holiness
I have always enjoyed reading J. Sidlow Baxter. He is a middle ground between Reformed and Pentecostal views of holiness. He argues at length against the eradication view of the old nature, but believes that true holiness is really attainable by the person we really are. He writes, “Before all else, even before orthodox dogma, […]
Deliver Us From Evil
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed his first two books, I ordered this 1996 book by Zacharias as soon as it came out. Zacharias has become a well known lecturer on Atheism and American culture. This book is a brief history of America’s change from a Christian-oriented nation to a pluralistic and secularistic nation. The book […]
The Purpose Driven Church
Rick Warren is the pastor of the Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, CA., an SBC church. The church has grown to over 10,000 in attendance in fifteen years of existence. Although Warren says the book is about church health, not church growth (p. 17), it is no doubt a church growth book as […]
He That Is Spiritual
I have enjoyed Chafer much more in my ministry than I did as a student. Perhaps because now I don’t have anyone telling me how “shallow” he was. I still find his book True Evangelism to be the best I have read on the subject. In this area of the filling of the Spirit, I […]
The Tragedy of Compromise
I just received this 1994 book in the mail from a good friend. This is a review of the twentieth century from the early Liberal-Fundamental battles to the “marketing” battles today. Pickering has first-hand knowledge of many of the foremost figures in these controversies. Having seen all the water go under the bridge, Pickering is […]
Present Concerns
This is another collection of articles written by Lewis, mostly during war time. I still think Lewis offers a wealth of practical insight in these articles that few, if any, today have. These cover subjects from home life to ethics of war. The size is manageable as well.
Salt & Light
This is a compilation of debate articles between the religious political right and left beginning in the mid 1950’s and continuing through the 1980’s. Representative of the right are writers like Carl F.H. Henry, founding editor of Christianity Today, and Jerry Falwell, while the left is represented by such writers as Jim Wallis, founding editor […]