Book Review – The Supremacy of God in Preaching

[No…I’m not reading a book a day. I have been very lax on posting reviews, so while the wifey is out of town, I’m trying to catch up…] Cards on the table: I’m a Piper-Head. He was so instrumental in my coming to faith…so helpful, so powerful…I could go on. So naturally, I absorbed The […]

Book Review – Church Elders

9Marks has always provided rock solid resources for the local church – but what makes them so helpful is that they are so accessible. They have a knack, that reminds me a lot of Bob Kauflin and Sovereign Grace, to be unassuming, and “entry level” and then be able to go deep quickly and not […]

Book Review – The Pastor and Counseling

I’m a big fan of 9Marks and their resources. I have found them consistently helpful and accessible. This book, The Pastor and Counseling, is no different. Deepak Reju [Pastor of Counseling at Capitol Hill Baptist in DC] and Jeremy Pierre [Biblical Counseling Professor at SBTS] team up to write a fantastic book. Counseling is an […]

Book Review – Creation Regained

I received Creation Regained [1985, Eerdmans] from a Pastor friend of mine, and had never heard it before. I’m a sucker for any good book on worldview. The subtitle “Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview” hooked me even further. Albert Wolters defines ‘worldview’ as “the comprehensive framework of one’s basic beliefs about things.” [2]. Everyone […]

Book Review – Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons

OK, so true story, I finished this book weeks ago, but have not posted a review. I think what finally makes me post it is the fact that I’m nearly done with another book and I don’t want to be in the place of having to post two reviews. That would be weird. Anyway…onward. Finding […]

Book Review – Defining Deception

This is a bold book. It is a personally revealing and transparent book. It is a humble and sensitive book [see the Preface – “The Heart of the Authors”] It is a book that will make lots of people uncomfortable. I’m sure many people are angry about this book. It’s a book that will […]

Book Review – If You Only Knew

This book caught my eye immediately for two main reasons. First, I thought [correctly] it was the wife of Austin Stone Worship Leader Aaron Ivey. [Can you say “Jesus is Better“? If you haven’t heard this song, STOP and go listen now. Seriously. It’s OK. We’ll wait.] Second, it’s the author’s “unlikely, unavoidable story of […]

Book Review – Our Secular Age

This is one of those books that I wouldn’t have picked up…unless I got it for free…like at a conference. Which I did. I’ve [shockingly] not heard of Charles Taylor, nor “Our Secular Age” and I now officially feel like I have been missing out. [#FOMO]. Taylor, a Catholic philosopher, wrote “A Secular Age” in […]

Book Review – The Porn Problem

This week, an article appeared in the New York Times entitled “Let’s Ban Porn.” I’ve been increasingly sensitive to the fact that it’s not just Christians that are saying that porn is harmful – now it’s society at large. Yet, still so many of us struggle. The pull is so strong and so addictive. So […]

Book Review – Faith Alone

So. RC Sproul. A towering giant of a theological beast. One of those guys that I’ve listened to a little, but not a lot. This year, he also passed from this life and into his eternal reward. By all accounts he was a man who lived his life worthy of the gospel he was called […]