In my ongoing, irregular series of shorter book reviews, I offer another batch of volumes I happen to be reading at the moment and wish…
This year has seen and heard much of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin (the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the 150th anniversary of…
Zondervan, 2009 (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Well-known Christian apologist Greg Koukl here offers a popular-level approach to defending the faith. The California-based apologist…
The Christian life is described in various ways in the New Testament. Various metaphors and images are used to depict the life of the disciple…
Zondervan, 2008. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Chris Wright is an English evangelical and Old Testament scholar. He has penned a number of helpful…
As has been my occasional habit, I offer another list of recommended reading. The books mentioned here simply happen to be some of the volumes…
Law does not get a very good rap in today’s culture. For law is associated with such things as right and wrong, truth and falsehood…
Actually this is mostly the tale of one important man. But since I have discovered many parallels with his life and my own, I will…
If nothing else, the steady stream of madness and moral decrepitude one encounters on a daily basis at least keeps life interesting. It is hard…
One thing a believer quickly discovers when reading or listening to the emerging church leaders is their love of dichotomies, or dualities. They are keenly…
The broad issue of the relationship between science and faith, and the more particular issue of the debate over creation and evolution are of course…
Zondervan, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) The most important person in human history has always come under attack, but it seems that in…
Apologetics comes from a Greek word meaning reason or defence. It has to do with defending the Christian faith and answering objections to it. Since…
Zondervan, 2006. Available in Australia from Koorong Books. “Faith and Jesus” is the first of a four-part DVD set meant to help answer some of the…
The war against Biblical Christianity continues to hot up. This time the prestigious journal, Nature, has weighed into the battle. In its 8 March, 2007…
March 25, 2007 marks a very important anniversary. Two hundred years ago the British Parliament voted to abolish slavery, and on that date the Abolition…
Openness thought, also known as free will theism, is generating lots of attention. Among its more radical claims is the belief that God does not…
Zondervan, 2005. It is no secret that there has been a strong tendency in Pentecostal/Charismatic circles to downplay the use of the mind, the intellect,…
Zondervan, 2005. It is an unfortunate but oft-repeated habit that trends and fads in the world tend to be slavishly picked up and replicated by…
There are many hundreds of good books that describe the challenge which Islam poses to the free West. The books listed here primarily focus on…