Shelf Life

Simonetta Carr, Weight of a Flame: The Passion of Olympia Morata (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2011). In the interest of disclosure this review was written by a thirty-something-year-old man with the help of two young ladies under age five and a six year old boy. I mention this because...

J. V. Fesko, Galatians (Tolle Lege Press, 2012), xxvii + 180 pp. In the last few decades, there has been a revival of lectio continua preaching, which is beginning to produce a harvest of expository commentaries. This can only have the happy effect of encouraging the practice of systematic...

Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson, The Explicit Gospel. Crossway: Wheaton, IL, 2012. 229 pages. Introduction The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler with Jared C. Wilson joins the increasingly fashionable array of books on the gospel. Among several others in that crowd, The Explicit Gospel is a useful...

John Piper, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian ( Crossway 2011, 295 pp.) There are fewer things more distressing than racial division within the Christian church. Yet racial division has plagued the church from the beginning. Whether one considers the apparent antagonism between Greek and...

Guy Prentiss Waters, How Jesus Runs the Church (Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing, 2011, 178 pp.) The foreword to this very timely and useful book was written by Dr. T. David Gordon. He relates that, for approximately a decade, he taught a course in Presbyterian ecclesiology at Gordon-Conwell...

Robert Letham, Union with Christ: In Scripture, History, and Theology (P&R Publishing, 2011), xii + 164 pp. In this volume Robert Letham takes up the grandest of all salvation truths, the Christian's union with Christ. After a short introduction, the book proceeds through six chapters in which...

The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams by Heath Lambert (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011) It may surprise some that the brief history of biblical counseling is a complex one considering its fairly straightforward premise that the Bible is the sufficient foundation and guiding authority of...

Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe (Crossway Publishers, 464 p). One of the tricky things with writing book reviews is not repeating what other reviewers have already said. A very fine article has already been published on this volume here . I am in...

John Bolt accepted the unenviable challenge of editing an abridged volume of Herman Bavinck's magnum opus, the Reformed Dogmatics. While Bavinck's magisterial work encompasses four volumes, Dr. Bolt was required to select the most germane sections of these four volumes, and then to distill those...

K. Scott Oliphint, God with Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God (Crossway, 2011). 304 pp. $16.50. Professor Scott Oliphint's book, God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God , is a welcome addition to the Reformed, evangelical, and scholarly communities. The doctrine...