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Three Solid (and Readable) Books on the Trinity
I love reading about the Trinity. Between the Trinity and the Cross, you have the core of my theological interests. I’ve been reading about the Trinity on and off since the end of college. While I...
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Book Review- A Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age...
Mitch Stokes. A Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012. 252 pp. $16.99. ($11.35 on Amazon) In the last few years, with the...
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Quick-Blog #8 Tim Keller on the Way the Gospel Frees Us to Witness
I’ve been reading Tim Keller’s new book on church, Center Church and it is everything they say it is: amazing, rich, deep, helpful, game-changing, etc. One gem of a chapter so far is chapter 3,”The...
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Top 5 Reformedish Books of 2012
Everybody else is doing one so I figure I will too. I must note that my “Top 5” of 2012 were not all published in 2012—I may just have happened to read them this last year. Also, they appear in no...
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For the Love of God Read Your Bible This Year
The title of the blog’s a little cheeky. On one level I’m quite serious–in order to love God better, it’s a good idea to read your Bible this new year. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that...
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Rob Bell At the Areopagus (CaPC Feature)
Seth T. Hahne is the man. Paul’s debate with the philosophers at the Areopagus remains a favorite story of mine. The Areopagus, or Mars Hill, in Athens was the cultural and intellectual center of the...
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What’s a Culture and How Does it Work? 4 Functions of Culture According to...
The notion of culture has been on my mind for a long time now, but after joining the writing staff over at Christ and Pop Culture, I figured it was appropriate to do a little more digging on the notion...
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Meditation and Communion with God: Contemplating Scripture in an Age of...
Meditation is viewed with suspicion within many wings of modern Protestantism today. Begin to mention the spiritual discipline of contemplation and immediately accusations or apprehensions that one has...
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The End of Our Exploring (CaPC Review)
Humans question things all the time, but why? What’s a question and how does it work? Beyond that, makes a question good? Are there bad questions? Should I question everything? Who says? Is there ever...
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Death By Living by N.D. Wilson (The Gospel Coalition Review)
N.D. Wilson. Death By Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2013. 208 pp. $19.99. The first thing I’ll note about Death By Living, N.D. Wilson’s follow-up to his celebrated...
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Reformedish Seminary Starter Kit
You might not be able to tell based on my blog, but I didn’t go to a Reformed seminary; Haggard School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University is rooted is the Wesleyan-Holiness background (I kind of...
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A Few Looks At Crouch’s “Playing God”
Andy Crouch, executive editor at Christianity Today and author of Culture Making, just released his new book on power called Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. I haven’t read it yet, but...
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You Were Made For More Than Safety —“Risky Gospel” by Owen Strachan (Review...
Exodus tells us that God saved Israel that it might “serve/worship” (avodah) him (Ex. 7:16; 8:1; 9:1). Contrary to what we might think, the Israelites weren’t set “free” to go off, settle in, and have...
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Reconsidering Justification with Stephen Westerholm (Book Review)
It’s one of the odd quirks of my theological education that the New Perspective on Paul and justification is actually the first perspective on Paul I really heard when I came of age theologically. Yes,...
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Top Five Reformedish Books of 2013
AD: I use Grammarly to check plagiarism because what if I go on the Janet Mefferd Show? Once again it is time for my annual “Top Five Reformedish Books” of the year. This is actually a horrible post...
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Unapologetic by Francis Spufford (TGC Review)
Francis Spufford. Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense. New York: HarperOne, 2013. 240 pp. $25.99. Friedrich Schleiermacher wrote his classic...
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Economic Shalom–Bolt’s Theology of the Market Beyond Biblicism
Economics is complicated. Establishing a Christian approach to economics seems even more daunting a task, especially given the amount of ink that’s been spilled when it comes to a Christian approach to...
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PROOF Review (TGC)
Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones. PROOF: Finding Freedom Through The Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014. 224 pp. $16.99. Grace. There are few words more...
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Faith Speaking Understanding by Kevin Vanhoozer (TGC Review)
Kevin J. Vanhoozer. Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2014. 298 pp. $22.42. “The drama is in the dogma,” Dorothy Sayers once said....
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The Skeletons in God’s Closet (TGC Book Review)
Joshua Ryan Butler. The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, and the Holy of Holy War. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2014. 384 pp. $15.99. Hell. Judgment. Holy war....
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