Posts Tagged ‘Book Review’
A Book Review of Scott Aniol’s Citizens and Exiles
Previously I had blogged (here and here) that ministry stability and progress require unity in vision, mission, philosophy, and doctrine. I believe that Scott Aniol’s book, Citizens and Exiles, provides clear direction for bringing about such unity. Much of the disunity that can be observed in the church today (whether in conservative evangelical circles or…
Read MoreReview: Elisabeth Elliot, A Life
I’ve mentioned many times that I considered Elisabeth Elliot my “mentor from afar” for most of my adult life. I discovered her books in college, four decades ago, beginning with Through Gates of Splendor, Shadow of the Almighty, and The Journals of Jim Elliot. I’ve read almost all her books ever since, some of them…
Read MoreUnboxing a New Work on Dispensationalism
Dispensationalism Revisited: A 21st Century Restatement, Central Baptist Theological Seminary (Nov. 21 2023) [Support the FBFI by buying through our link.] I was reorganizing my desk after teaching a grad-level seminary block class last week and to my surprise I found a new book placed upon a pile of papers. It is entitled Dispensationalism Revisited:…
Read MorePodcast: Against Liberal Theology: A conversation with Roger E. Olson
Roger Olson is an American theologian, serving as a Professor of Christian Theology at Baylor University for many years. Now in retirement, he continues to publish books, one of which is Against Liberal Theology, published in 2022. We recently published a review on Proclaim & Defend. This book is one that resonates with fundamentalists in…
Read MoreReview: I Have a Psychiatric Diagnosis: What Does the Bible Say?
Edward T. Welch, I Have a Psychiatric Diagnosis: What Does the Bible Say? (Greensboro, New Growth Press: 2022), 88 pages. Edward Welch, a well-known biblical counselor, and gifted writer provides the church and believers a wonderful resource for a hotly debated topic: psychiatric diagnoses. Many churches and pastors have, with the advancement of psychiatric and…
Read MoreThe Lord’s Prayer: For All God’s Children
A Book Review Award-winning author Harold Senkbeil has written an excellent children’s book in Lexham’s FatCat series called The Lord’s Prayer: For All God’s Children. Other books in this series include The Apostles’ Creed: For All God’s Children and The King of Christmas. The talented Natasha Kennedy has drawn the artwork for each of these…
Read MoreBook Review: The Voyage And Shipwreck Of St. Paul
One of the best books I’ve read in a long time comes to us as a reprint of an 1880 revision of a book first published in 1848. Smith, James. The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul: With Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke, and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients.…
Read MoreReview: In the Name of God
In the Name of God: The Colliding Lives, Legends, and Legacies of J. Frank Norris and George W. Truett O. S. Hawkins, B & H Academic, Nashville, 2021 O. S. Hawkins gives us a work of much interest to fundamentalist Baptists, In the Name of God: The Colliding Lives, Legends, and Legacies of J. Frank…
Read MoreHistorical Theology for the Church – a review
Duesing, Jason G., and Nathan A. Finn, eds. Historical Theology for the Church. Nashville: B & H Academic, 2021. A review by Don Johnson What is historical theology? “Historical theology is the study of the development of Christian doctrine and tradition from the Bible by the church and for the church.”1 This is the “working…
Read MoreMind the Story: A Bible Reading Lesson from Ron Horton
Review: Alive to the Purpose: The Readerly Reading of Scripture (Greenville, SC: JourneyForth, 2020) Reviewed by Brendon Johnson If the Bible is the rule of the Christian faith, every Christian should know what it says. Furthermore, listening to preaching is not enough; your pastor is not going to tell you everything in the Bible. You…
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