Counterfeit Gods – Timothy Keller

Dr Timothy Keller, founding and lead Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, is still perhaps best known for his phenomenally successful first book, The Reason for God. In The Reason for God, Dr Keller provided something of a counterpoint to the writings of the proponents of New Atheism (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, et al) in [...]

Dug Down Deep – Joshua Harris

Joshua Harris, Senior Pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is still perhaps best known for his first book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye (reviewed elsewhere on this site). Harris was raised, and homeschooled, in a conservative evangelical family and came to prominence through his editorship of a national homeschooling magazine published in North America. [...]

Scandalous – D.A. Carson

During Holy Week 2010 a few members of the Firwood congregation read a chapter every day from D.A. Carson’s excellent book; “Scandalous – the Cross & Resurrecton of Jesus”. Each evening one of them would post a short blog on the chapter they’d read that day. Whilst not technically a ‘review’, these short posts do [...]

John Calvin: A Biography

This is an old book and, understandably then, T.H.L. Parker is now a very old man. Parker is also an authority on all things John Calvin. Parker published his first work of note on the great Reformer in 1954 with John Calvin: A Portrait. A Portrait was intended as a general introduction to Calvin’s life [...]

Chosen by God – R.C. Sproul

There are few doctrines as difficult and controversial as the Doctrine of Unconditional Election. As we have seen through our study of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, our understanding of this weighty truth invariably effects the way in which we understand salvation, God’s sovereignty, his activity in this world and his dealings with men and [...]

Ephesians – Helpful Resources

Those of you who read my previous blog, Ephesians: His Glorious Grace, or were around on Sunday morning will know that we have just embarked on a sermon series working through Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians (first message in the series available here). I thought it might be useful, then, to highlight some of the [...]

The Cross of Christ – John Stott

The Apostle Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthian Church reaches its apex at the beginning of the fifteenth chapter, For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day [...]

The Glory of Christ – Peter Lewis

AGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGG. This is my roar of impatience (only in real life it is even more fearsome).  From whence comes this roar of manly anger, you may quite reasonably ask? This righteous anger is provoked most sharply by poor writing. I define such writing thus: Poor grammar. Especially. When. The. Text. Is. Over. Punctuated. Grrrr. Lazy [...]

Jesus Freaks – dcTalk and The Voice of the Martyrs

The Apostle Paul writes to Timothy warning him that ‘all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted’ (2 Timothy 3:12). This book tells the stories of saints who have gone before, suffered and been murdered, for their faith in Jesus Christ. These accounts are the antithesis to what Dr [...]

The Air I Breathe – Louie Giglio

Think back to the summer of ’99. It was the year of the bilingual popstar. Ricky Martin was going Livin’ La Vida Loca, Geri Halliwell finally found Mi Chico Latino and, my personal favourite, the Vengaboys with the classic Boom Boom Boom Boom!! You may have been sat at home, dunking your biscuits watching The [...]

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