Getting “Saved”: The Whole Story of Salvation in the New Testament. Edited by Charles H. Talbert and Jason A. Whitlark. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011. 324 pages. Paper, $30.00. This book has twelve essays by six authors. “This volume of essays is concerned with soteriology. How does one gain a covenant relationship with God and […]

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God’s Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People. By Jim Cymbala and Dean Merrill. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996. 206 pages. Paper, $15.99. I had heard of Jim Cymbala, his church, and the famous Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. I read that his church has over 16,000 members. I first […]

50 Things You Need to Know about Heaven. By John Hart. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2014. 137 pages. Paper, $9.99. John Hart is a Professor of Bible at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. I love the idea of fifty very short chapters dealing with fifty important questions about eternity future. Each chapter can be […]

Civil Government: God’s Other Kingdom. By Daniel M. Deutschlander. Milwaukee, WI: Northwestern Publishing House, 2001. 215 pages. Paper, $16.50. Daniel M. Deutschlander is a Lutheran pastor and retired professor of history, German, and religion at Martin Luther College. His book, Civil Government: God’s Other Kingdom, defends a distinctly Lutheran view of the role of civil […]

Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions. By Mark Driscoll. Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2009. 287 pages. Hardback, $19.99. Mark Driscoll is the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington. He wrote this book in response to a series of questions he asked visitors to the church’s website. He wanted to answer their most controversial […]

The Explicit Gospel. By Matt Chandler with Jared Wilson. Wheaton: Crossway, 2012. 237 pages. Paper, $17.99. Matt Chandler is the Pastor of a megachurch in a Dallas suburb called The Village Church. In addition to a main church campus in Flower Mound, TX, there are three satellite churches which feature “Flat Matt.” Those churches have […]

These Are the Generations: The Story of How One North Korean Family Lived Out the Great Commission for More Than Fifty Years in the Most Christian-Hostile Nation in Human History. By Mr. and Mrs. Bae with Eric Foley. Colorado Springs, CO: DotW Publishing, 2012. 120 pages. Paper, $9.95. To most people, North Korea is shrouded […]

Adam as Israel: Genesis 1-3 as the Introduction to the Torah and the Tanakh. Seth D. Postell. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011. 204 pages. Paper, $24.00. Rarely does a book come around that is truly revolutionary. This book is one of the rare ones. Postell, a Professor at Israel College of the Bible in Netanya, […]

Dispensational Understanding of the New Covenant. By Mike Stallard, John Master, Dave Fredrickson, Roy E. Beacham, Elliott E. Johnson, Rodney J. Decker, and Bruce Compton. Editor Mike Stallard. Schaumburg, Ill.: Regular Baptist Press, 2012. 285 pages. Paper, $24.99. This book presents three dispensationalist views of the Church’s relationship to Israel’s New Covenant. The non-dispensationalist view […]

Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern. By Jason B. Hood. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013. 232 pages. Paper, $22.00. Hood is writing for all three sides of Christianity: “the latitudinal left,” “the massive middle,” and the “reluctant or resistant right” (pp. 14-15, 183-89). He suggests that all three miss the significance of […]