Shelf Life

2009 ushers in the 500th anniversary of the birth of Genevan Protestant Reformer John Calvin. A conference is scheduled to be held in Geneva next summer and several books are slated for release in commemoration of the grand occasion. Two of these have already seen the light of day. Both hail from...

The Rule of Love: Broken, Fulfilled, and Applied By: J.V. Fesko 152 p. Reformation Heritage Books The law of God, as expressed in the Ten Commandments, is one of the greatest gifts ever given to mankind. The Ten Commandments not only serve as a guide for us in the Christian life, but they are a...

J.I. Packer and the Evangelical Future Edited by: Timothy George 253p Baker (October 2009) Festschrift, like schadenfreude and blitz , is reckoned to be an untranslatable German word. The OED has a go, however: a festschrift is 'a collection of writings presented to a scholar to mark an occasion in...

Risking the Truth: Handling Error in the Church By Martin Downes 247p. Christian Focus (July 2009) You emerge from the darkness, eyes blinking. Before you there are two chairs, black leather. A fierce spotlight illuminates the scene. Seated on one chair is the Interrogator. His job is to question...

This is a profoundly misleading and disappointing book. Or maybe you want to know what I really think! The title, Pagan Christianity, is misleading, even if the subtitle is clear. I was doubtless asked to review this book because of the many years I have spent studying ancient and modern paganism...

Anne Rice has undergone a radical transformation. A bestselling author, whose novels have sold over 100 million copies, she recently returned to the Roman Catholic faith of her youth, and in so doing abandoned her former subject matter (vampires) and turned instead to a series of books dramatizing...

Packer...Piper...Ferguson...Sproul...Ryken...Duncan...Thomas...the list goes on and on. Meet the Puritans almost seems to blush with all of its accolades and endorsements. This impressive work finds its genesis with a series of articles written in the 1980's for the Banner of Truth (U.S.) entitled...

"Who do you say that I am?" is the most important question Jesus ever posed to his disciples and it remains to this day the most important question that anyone can answer. Daniel R. Hyde, Pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church, provides an answer to this question in God With Us by asserting and...

If you're looking for something theologically deep, this is not it. Instead, what we have here is John Stott dreaming of what he desires the church to reflect. The occasion was the 150th anniversary of the dedication of one of the most famous evangelical churches in Britain, All Soul's in Langham...

I have to admit that I am pretty skeptical when it comes to "Christian" films. Too often, films producers major on the "Christian" part and leave the art of good filmmaking and story behind. Too often they are cheesy, sappy, maudlin, or blasphemous. Some figure that unless someone gets saved and...