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Henry Scougal (1650-78), although he died at the age of 28 and is not well known today, has had a significant impact on the church. During his life he served as professor at Kings College, Aberdeen, Scotland (twice), pastored a church and wrote. His best known work is The Life of God in the Sou - MORE

This is the third book edited by Duce and Strange and aimed at helping those engaging in biblical and religious studies (see previous review of Keeping Your Balance in Themelios 28.2). The previous two books have addressed the integration of faith and learning and getting up to speed - MORE

Henry Scougal (1650-78), although he died at the age of 28 and is not well known today, has had a significant impact on the church. During his life he served as professor at Kings College, Aberdeen, Scotland (twice), pastored a church and wrote. His best known work is The Life of God in the Sou - MORE

This year’s January Bible Study gives us an opportunity to examine an area not often studied, and even less often studied well- Old Testament history. The story of Nehemiah is not real familiar to many of our people so this will be a good opportunity to study the lessons found here. Sadly, when Ne - MORE

This is a collection of 15 sermons originally published in the 17th century by Christopher Love, a Puritan pastor in London. Love is little known today but Don Kistler seems to be on a mission to change that, republishing not only this book but another one by Love as well as The Works of Christophe - MORE

This is an excellent collection of essays on the task of preaching, and it deserves to be widely read. Don Kistler has once again done the church a service by collecting valuable essays from Soli Deo Gloria conferences and presenting them in printed form. The names of contributors and their topics - MORE

Having written a well received technical commentary (on Revelation) Beale has here turned to what is often a more difficult task - producing a commentary which is aware of the technical discussion but seeks succinctly to summarize the exegetical issues and illumine the basic message and theology of - MORE

In this book Piper turns his passionate voice to address pastoral ministry, an area desperately needing reappraisal today. This book is a collection of 30 brief (typically 6 pages) exhortations originally written to his fellow elders at Bethlehem Baptist Church or for his denominational magazine. - MORE

The folks at Shepherd Press (publishers of Tedd Tripp's parenting material) have provided us with another great resource for children. The author, Nancy Ganz, is the wife of Richard Ganz, who has authored a number of books.  These three volumes are the initial releases in the Herein is Love Co - MORE

John Brown of Haddington was a giant of the faith in a land of giants - 18th century Scotland. I first became familiar with him in the famed story of him teaching himself to read Greek while watching his sheep as recorded by A. T. Robertson in his big grammar. Brown was indeed a man of peculiar gi - MORE

The Economy of the Covenants is generally regarded as the magnum opus of Dutch theologian Herman Witsius and was written to promote peace among those divided on covenant theology in his day. This little volume was written to give a detailed outline of the almost 1,000 page original. In a preface - MORE

This book is primarily a compilation of sermon outlines from Peter Grainger, the current senior pastor of Charlotte's Chapel, Edinburgh. Outlines of sermons from 14 different series covering various portions of Scripture are included. The series range from consecutive chapters (e.g., Revelation 1- - MORE

That the view of fatherhood in our culture is confused and skewed is manifest. I remember a few years ago reading of a Brazilian actress whose 4 month old son had been proven by blood tests to be the son of Mick Jagger. Jagger, married to someone else, had yet to visit his son, but the mother said - MORE

This is a superb commentary on the book of Revelation. Johnson, a pastor and professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in California, provides a clear, very readable and theologically aware exposition of this complex book.  The commentary opens with a chapter aptly entitled, “A Strategy f - MORE

This is an excellent book! In a day when there is great confusion about manhood where it is either despised or what is gloried in is a false caricature, this book presents a compelling vision of what manhood ought to be. I found myself moved, compelled, challenged, humbled and emboldened.  Do - MORE

This is the highly publicized first volume of The New Testament Library series and is written by an established scholar with previous helpful contribution to the field. As one would expect from the Old Testament counterpart series, the publisher, and the author, this commentary takes a more critica - MORE

Bruce Waltke has done the church a great service in the writing of this accessible, pastoral and theologically sound book. It is heartening in this book, like some other recent books, to see a prominent scholar address a key pastoral need in the church bringing to bear his scholarly insights in a m - MORE

“The more precious your preparation time, the more essential the Holman New Testament Commentary is to your success. No other reference gets to the heart of the New Testament as efficiently as the Holman New Testament Commentary.”  So says the blurb on the back of this commentary. Sadly, one - MORE

In this day when more and more is being published, there is a need for short books which summarize succinctly and well key issues especially for the non-specialist. This is especially true in church history since our churches typically have so little historical awareness. For these reasons I was a - MORE

I was pleased to discover that Shepherd Press has republished this fine book. I first encountered it a few years ago and bought a copy for the children’s ministry of the church I pastored, vowing to buy my own copy when I had children. In recent years, I had been unable to find the book and found - MORE

This is indeed a very interesting book. It is a collection of stories written by the wife of John Gerstner for their daughter Rachel (collected before she turned six) explaining and discussing biblical truths. Apparently the manuscript lay in a shoebox ‘undiscovered’ for sometime before someone co - MORE

This is an excellent little book for pastors and pastors in training. William Philip has brought together addresses by Melvin Tinker, David Jackman, Martin Allen, Jonathan Prime and Sinclair Ferguson from recent conferences of the Proclamation Trust (UK). Proclamation Trust (www.proctrust.org.uk) - MORE

This is a very useful commentary on this often confusing book of Scripture. Keener, already established as a significant NT scholar, demonstrates not only a thorough grasp of the text and the scholarly discussion around it, but also shows he is one who has grappled with actually living out the mess - MORE

Dr. Ralph Davis, Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS, has provided yet another fine exposition of an Old Testament book (he has previously published expositions of Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel with the same publisher). Davis describes his work in this w - MORE

This excellent book is a compilation of essays which address the crucial issues which face a student in theological and religious studies. Most of the essays were originally published individually by RTSF and so may be familiar to some readers already. It is a wonderful opportunity to have all of - MORE

This book is a wide ranging collection of essays on various aspects of Paul’s mission in honor of Dr. Peter T. O’Brien, Vice Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney, Australia, who in his ministry has served as a missionary and a prominent scholar in the field of Pauline studies and mission. - MORE

 (This book is part of the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 93)  This monograph, originally a University of Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis written under the direction of John O’Neill, claims to argue a third position on the issue of the authorship of the Pastoral Epistles (hereafter - MORE

  (This book is part of the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 101)  The student encountering rhetorical analysis for the first time finds a confusing range of definitions of ‘rhetoric’.[1] In addition many of the definitions are so broad as to be misleading or limited in use - MORE

This is another fine commentary from a leading evangelical New Testament scholar. Dr. O’Brien has already written well-received commentaries on the other two prison epistles (Philippians [New International Greek Testament Commentary] and Colossians [Word]), and this commentary lives up to the high - MORE

This volume is one of the latest in the Pillar Series edited by D. A. Carson, a series which already has some distinguished entries. The series, likely to be familiar to the readers of EQ, intends to interact with contemporary scholarship but not to focus greatly on technical discussion, hoping the - MORE

 (This book is part of the JSNT Supplement Series 193; Studies in New Testament Greek)  This monograph is a recent addition of the Studies in New Testament Greek series (see previous review of Discourse Analysis and the New Testament). This volume, like previous volumes 1, 2, and 5 in the se - MORE

As noted above this book is part of two series, or a series within a series. Most readers will be familiar with the JSNT Supplement Series, but the Studies in New Testament Greek or sub-series may not be as familiar. Other volumes in this series have included compilations of papers from the Biblic - MORE

In the 1993 edition of his New Testament Commentary Survey, Don Carson commented that the Pastoral Epistles ‘are not very well served by commentaries in English,’ and that was manifestly correct. However, this ‘lack of service’ is apparently in the process of being remedied with the appearan - MORE

A book from an unknown author and a title that suggests a “hyper-charismatic” content is not immediately appealing to me and would have little chance of getting on my reading list. However such a book caught my attention because I noticed that Christian Focus had published it. They use the sort of - MORE

Ronald Nash and Zondervan are to be congratulated for producing a book which addresses such an important pastoral and theological issue, and doing it in a format, cost, and level which make it accessible to church members. It is clear throughout that Nash is writing with the average church member i - MORE

In a day when fewer and fewer people in our churches know their Bibles, especially how it all fits together, it is encouraging to see a number of books coming out which seek to provide more than simply a synopsis (though that is valuable as well) but an understanding of how the whole Bible works tog - MORE

Terry Johnson and Christian Focus Publications have done a great service to parents who desire to revive the practice of family worship. There are a number of good books on the need for family worship (e.g. J. W. Alexander, Thoughts on Family Worship; Jerry Marcelino, Rediscovering the L - MORE

This little book is a gem of wisdom and spiritual insight distilled from the life and letters of Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents. Mrs. Cook obviously knows her subject well as she skillfully interweaves biographical sketches of the correspondents with Rutherford’s counsel and confe - MORE

This is a quite interesting little book. Phillips admits at the outset that anger drove him to write this book- anger at the smug so called scholars who flippantly claim to debunk the New Testament without regard to the damage they do to people in the churches. Phillips writes to counter such ‘deb - MORE

One of the heritages of the Protestant Reformation is an interest in and esteem of understanding the Bible in the original languages. Indeed, A. T. Robertson, the great Southern Baptist Greek scholar, wrote,  There is nothing like the Greek NT to rejuvenate the world, which came out of the d - MORE

As parents of three we are always looking for material that properly handles Biblical truths and connects them well to every day life for our children. Probably the best book we have found so far in accomplishing this is Big Truths for Little Kids, by Susan and Richie Hunt (Crossway Publishe - MORE

 This little book consists of three chapters representing three addresses originally given in 1957. I suppose a book like this can be read and reviewed from a number of different angles, such as the historical angle seeking to understand what was going on in evangelicalism or the ministry of Lloy - MORE

This is a super book in pointing out the importance of a vision of authentic manhood and of a father passing this down to his son(s). Lewis rightly challenges the fathers to first be men of honor and then to pass on to their sons by example and instruction this vision of manhood. He lays out a vis - MORE