Salem Books, 2022. This new book is a much-needed challenge to our complacent Christianity: I and many others have long been saying that the church…
Skyhorse Publishing, 2022. This new volume by Kennedy deserves a very wide-reading: Back in May I posted an article examining 21 of the best books…
What seemed like a wasted youth lead to an incredible career: We are all created differently, so we all have different stories, different interests, different…
Eerdmans, 2018. Let me offer a few introductory thoughts first: Perhaps the two main considerations folks might have as to whether or not they buy…
Eerdmans, 2018. What a difference a generation makes. When it comes to buying new commentaries, some might ask: Why bother? Are not the older ones…
Eerdmans, 2018. The newest volume in the excellent Pillar New Testament Commentary series is another first-rate effort. The American New Testament professor has already done…
Eerdmans, 2017. Most Christians would know that the short New Testament book of Philemon has something to do with slavery and Christianity. In just 25…
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.…
A US politician thinks that the right to murder anyone who gets in your way to a successful career and lifestyle is “sacred ground”. Well,…
Eerdmans, 2009. (Available in Australia at Koorong books) The book of Philippians has been well served by evangelical and/or conservative commentaries over the past several…
Eerdmans, 2009. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Gordon Fee has long been one of our finest New Testament scholars. His numerous works in the…
Eerdmans/Apollos, 2008. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Surprisingly, there have been very few substantial and recent commentaries on Colossians from a conservative/evangelical perspective. Somewhat…
Boy, how the poison of the left has been gushing out. With the announcement of a genuine conservative Vice Presidential candidate, the loopy left has…
American Vision, 2007. The anti-theist blitzkrieg shows no signs of abating, with angry tomes from militant God-haters pouring from the presses. It seems each new…
Is Christmas on the way out? Well, certainly not the commercialised and consumeristic version. That is alive and well. But the real Christmas may well…
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,…
Eerdmans, 2006. Major recent commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles that have featured a more-or-less conservative and evangelical stance include the NIGTC volume by Knight (1992),…
There is no better news we can hear than this: As I was reflecting again the other night on my many shortcomings, failings, sins and…
Christians will one day meet again with lost loved ones: Two basic truths the believer can count on are these: in this life we will…
The ugly anti-Semitism we are now witnessing is utterly appalling: Some of the most shocking and demonic anti-Semitism we have seen perhaps since nearly a…