Category: BOOK

There are generally two kinds of apologetics books: those that list arguments and facts, and those that present arguments and facts through a story, usually a memoir or biography. Of the former, I Don’t Have Enough Faith To...

Review Many people shy away from the Old Testament–it is long, difficult to read, and stokes some controversy among Christians. Personally, I love studying the Old Testament and I’ve written about several OT books on this site...

To show my hand a little from the start, if I boil this down it is basically a huge hype post for this amazing commentary in its digital Logos Bible Software format, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old...

Soul Reading Journal by  Reviewed by Katy-Anne Binstead I love stories. I’m a writer who writes mostly memoir and personal essays, I have a master’s degree in English and Creative Writing, and I’m currently pursuing a...

The Curious Christian: Curiosity Creates Connections There was a lot that I could have taken away from my discussion with Barnabas Piper. Aside from his (what appears to be) dry sense of humor and quick whit, he’s a deep-thinker...

We all know the feeling. We know that feeling of emptiness, when God isn’t there. When we pray it feels like we are praying to the wall, to an absent God. We desire more of God’s presence only to feel absence. Or we look at...

SPXLL At first, you may find this post and book dire and gloomy, but the fact of the matter is at some point we will all either find ourself in a hospital bed or staying at the bedside of someone. We can try to fight it,...

The Good Shepherd by Kenneth Bailey Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.     He makes me lie down in green pastures.He leads me beside still...

When we read through Scripture we often find ourselves assuming that we know all there is to know about a book or the thought process of an author. It is easy to assume that the way we read the Bible is the only right way to do...

Who were Adam and Eve? Were they real people? Were they the first human beings? What can we really learn from Scripture about Adam and Eve? And, how does it relate to the origins debate? In The Lost World of Adam and...

In the second century AD, Marcionism erupted onto the scene of the early church. Marcion was an early church theologian who rejected the God of the Old Testament as being responsible for the material realm, rather than the...

Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man: A Commentary on Mark 13 by Robert H. Stein – IVP Academic, 2014 Buy Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man at Amazon and InterVarsity Press When we...