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 [...]

I Kissed Dating Goodbye – Joshua Harris

Before I continue, I guess I firstly need to address that cover. Yes, that man is wearing a trilby and his jacket is most certainly tweed. And yes, if it were not for that hat cast at a jaunty angle hiding much of his boyish face, I am sure he would be sneaking an ever-so-cheeky [...]

Spectacular Sins and their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ – Dr John Piper

I must confess to being something of a John Piper fan, if such a thing is permissible and would not earn a righteous rebuke from the man himself! His writings do often succeed in leaving me feeling like a spiritual lightweight with a feeble grasp of all things theological and his books, though carrying marvellous [...]

The Weight of Glory – C.S. Lewis

Air is necessary. Without air you and I will die. Food is necessary. If we go without food for too long we most surely starve to death. Water is necessary. If we forego water for long enough we will dehydrate, pass out and, eventually, we will die.  For the Christian, Scripture is as necessary as [...]

The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God – D.A. Carson

If, in an alternate hypothetical universe, I were to write a book entitled the Fiendishly Complex Compendium of Cunning Conundrums, I fear that few people would be adding it to their holiday reading list. In this hypothetical universe, the reasons for my failure as a novelist are manifold.  Problem number one, I am the author. [...]

Keep in Step with the Spirit – J.I. Packer

There are two ends to the spectrum when we think about the spiritual gifts and miraculous moves of God. At the one end we have the faith healer waving his white besuited arms in order to distract our attention from his outrageous, gravity defying hair, his wild unsubstantiated claims and gross mangling of Scripture. We [...]

Systematic Theology – Wayne Grudem

‘I like BIG BOOKS and I cannot lie…‘ If these really were the lyrics to that song (and they’re not) and Sir Mix-a-Lot was a Christian (and I have good reason to believe that he isn’t) then that song could well have been written about this book. You see, Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology is indeed [...]

ESV Study Bible

In October 2008 Crossway released the long awaited ESV Study Bible. If you’ve managed to get hold of it in the UK since then, congratulations – you’re one of the chosen few that managed to beat demand and receive one before the scheduled March 09 reprint. I too managed to get hold of a copy, [...]

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist – John Piper

I begin by stating that Desiring God is an important book and is quite rightly regarded as a modern classic. Dr John Piper’s thesis through the pages of Desiring God and, indeed, his 29 years as Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church has been to test and apply his hypothesis, adapted from [...]

The Reason for God: Belief in an age of Scepticism – Tim Keller

Timothy Keller’s book The Reason for God: Belief in an age of Scepticism takes an in-depth look at the reasons for and against the existence of God. The book is split into two sections. The first half of the book looks at a number of typical reasons why people doubt the existence of God today, [...]

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