Everyone has a worldview – they may not know that they do, but they do nonetheless. Everyone looks at the world from a particular point…
David C. Cook, 2015. Enemies of Christianity are forever crying, “Give me some evidence.” Atheist Bertrand Russell once was asked what he would say if…
Exactly 75 years ago today Dutch citizens woke to the sounds of airplanes overhead, gunfire, and Nazi paratroopers landing in Amsterdam. This was the beginning…
Eerdmans, 2014. Let me begin with a brief confession. In earlier days I found a little discomfort and a lack of interest in Second Corinthians.…
FrontLine, 2014. Imagine a book written to defend the practice of breathing. Yep, lately people are slamming the idea of breathing and saying it is…
IVP, 2014. American theologian David Wells has written plenty of important books over the years, and I have reviewed a number of them. Five of…
There is no way of hiding the fact that there is plenty of suffering in the world. And yet, we know that there is also…
Let me begin with a mini-sermon, free of charge. It is imperative that all Christians think biblically. That is, they should assess and judge everything…
Christians should of course have as a primary goal to be more godly, to be more like our Lord. We should seek to emulate, imitate,…
Crossway, 2013. If you found great benefit from Wayne Grudem’s 600-page 2010 volume, Politics According to the Bible, you will also be delighted with this…
We have got to the point in so much of the West where it actually seems important to start talking about the possibility or even…
I believe it is not amiss to suggest that biblical discernment may be at an all-time low in the contemporary church. Our ability to think…
Anyone who has actually studied both Islam and Christianity knows how radically different they are to each other. It has rightly been argued that Islam…
Eerdmans, 2012. The Old Testament book of Judges is an important book, serving as a bridge – along with Joshua – between the Pentateuch and…
Crossway, 2013. (Available in Australia at Koorong) Covering a topic like this will get at least two immediate reactions: Impassa-what? Perhaps most folks will not…
In a 20-year period InterVarsity Press has produced a top notch series of dictionaries on the Old and New Testaments. The series of large volumes…
P&R, 2012. I have worked with young people, but I am not a youth pastor or a youth worker. However I have often stated that…
FaithWords, 2012. I love a paragraph found early on in this book: “We’re like tourists on a sunny beach. We’ve heard news of an earthquake…
Crossway, 2011. There are of course many answers that can be given to the question asked here. Catholics would differ from Protestants on this issue…
Thomas Nelson, 2011. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) The broad-brush thesis of this book is this: without the Judeo-Christian worldview, there would be no…