Review: <em>Giving Up Gimmicks</em>

Review: Giving Up Gimmicks

Books |  Church is not about entertainment, and youth ministry isn't either. Brian Cosby, the youth pastor at a conservative Presbyterian church in Atlanta, emphasizes…

Review: <em>What We Can't Not Know: A Guide</em>

Review: What We Can't Not Know: A Guide

Books |  A young woman aborts her first child and feels so bad about it that she aborts her second child, too, explaining that she wanted to be able to hate herself…

Review: <em>Father Hunger</em>

Review: Father Hunger

Books |  "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," God the Father declares in Matthew 3. And this declaration, says Doug Wilson, is the most perfect…

Review: <em>Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life</em>

Review: Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Books |  Colin Smith makes the book of Jonah sound really strange. What kind of Christian writes a story in which every single supporting character becomes a believer,

Review: <em>Gospel-Centered Discipleship</em>

Review: Gospel-Centered Discipleship

Books |  When Pastor Jonathan Dodson says "gospel-centered discipleship," he means it. In fact, his book Gospel-Centered Discipleship (Crossway, 2012) is so insistent on…

Review: <em>Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy</em>

Review: Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy

Books |  According to the author's preface, this biography took 10 years to write. But readers of Paul C. Gutjahr's new Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy

Review: <em>Defiant Grace</em>

Review: Defiant Grace

Books |  It's easy to wrap your mind around a verse or two. But most Christians have trouble comprehending the large-scale structure of the Gospels. Dane Ortlund's

Review: <em>Life Essentials Study Bible</em>

Review: Life Essentials Study Bible

Books |  Though it's all true, it misses the point. Completely. The Life Essentials Study Bible: Biblical Principles to Live By (Holman Bible Publishers, 2011) is the most…

Review: <em>Not in the Heart</em>

Review: Not in the Heart

Books |  Improbably, bestselling Christian author Chris Fabry's new book really works. A wisecracking journalist with an estranged wife and a sick son narrates most of…

Review: <em>Regulators Gone Wild</em>

Review: Regulators Gone Wild

Books |  Forty years ago, America had serious environmental problems. Rivers were polluted and smog filled cities. That changed with common sense regulations that made…

Review: <em>Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood</em>

Review: Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood

Books |  "If we were Old Testament prophets, we might say that all nations reap what they sow, that what we have seen of emerging adult life warns us that America is…

Review: <em>The Great Books Reader</em>

Review: The Great Books Reader

Books |  John Mark Reynolds' The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization (Bethany House, 2011) solidly hits its…

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