Category Archives: Book Reviews

If you want a satisfying response to Evans, look no further. As Keller concludes: Rachel, I can and do agree with much of what you say in your book regarding the ways in which either poor biblical interpretation or patriarchal … Continue reading →

They just keep coming…and they are extremely positive. This latest from book reviewer par excellence, Craig Hurst.

Review of The Church-Friendly Family Is the church is a ministry to families? Should Godly families steer clear of the world? What is the point of the family? And what is the point of the church? Pastors Randy Booth and … Continue reading →

By Matthew Sims If you’re not careful your mind may play tricks on you. After receiving the book, I kept thinking and writing The Family-Friendly Church. The authors though have been intentional with the title. In our seeker-sensitive saturated churches making … Continue reading →

Reviewed by Colt Nipps In our time, a “family-friendly church” is touted as being necessary to making any cultural impact at all.  Randy Booth and Rich Lusk have turned that phrase on its head with, “The Church-Friendly Family.” Wow, what … Continue reading →

Andrew Sandlin writes a devastating response to WTS’s (West) response to John Frame’s extensive analysis of the theology espoused by the WTS faculty.  Sandlin’s soberly concludes: Young scholars and students, let this be a lesson to you: if you ever have … Continue reading →

The UPS driver caught me right as I ventured into the cold afternoon to fetch the mail. As he parked on the street he handed me a gem. After carefully unpacking the box there emerged Robert Letham’s newest work entitled … Continue reading →

As a former student of John Frame, I saw again and again the graciousness he had when he reviewed books. He was equally gracious in class, though at time he reserved some of his intellectual wrath to theological pugilists. As … Continue reading →

My former professor Dan Ebert writes in his introduction to Wisdom Christology (15-16) that wisdom and folly both call out to us. Ebert observes that “this should serve as a reminder that reflecting on the doctrine of Christ is never risk-free. … Continue reading →

In the series preface to John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinism, D.G. Hart observes that “Nevin discerned fundamental changes in American religious life that were undermining the vitality of Reformed Christianity in the United States (10).” He elaborates further that … Continue reading →

Norman Shepherd writes in the Call of Grace of the dual dangers of evangelism: …Reformed pastors want nothing to do with “easy believism.” This is a way of presenting the gospel that separates acceptance of Christ as Savior from acceptance … Continue reading →

My former college professor Dan Ebert quoting Colin Greene asserts that “Christianity stands or falls by the adequacy or otherwise of its Christology. One of the reasons for a deeper Christology, writes Ebert, is that in “every age there are characteristics … Continue reading →

Shepherd writes attempting to avoid future misunderstanding about the nature of reprobation: And please note carefully the way in which I’m stating this point because it could be very easily misunderstood. I want to block out the possibility of misunderstanding … Continue reading →

Near to the heart of the Shepherd controversy at Westminster (discussed in Ian Hewitson’s work Trust and Obey) is John 15:1-8. Opponents of Shepherd viewed this passage only from a decretal perspective. Thus, they understood Shepherd to be teaching conditioned … Continue reading →

Ian Hewitson’s book is a fascinating, detailed account of the situation as it unfolded in the Shepherd trial. One footnote that appears on page 50 concerns a letter from Stanford Reid to Arthur Kuschke on July 22, 1977, where he … Continue reading →

I have begun reading through Ian Hewitson’s Trust and Obey, which is a full treatment of the Norman Shepherd controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary. The point of the book is that WTS “did not have the necessary grounds on which … Continue reading →

My good friend Luke Welch and I have just finished our review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. I hope it proves to be helpful. Here is our paper as PDF: He Has Fixed A Day: A Reformed Response to Rob Bell’s … Continue reading →