These are the best books I read in 2008.
Theology
The Resurrection of the Son of God / N.T. Wright
The Theology of the Book of Revelation / Richard Bauckham
The Cross He Bore / Frederick S. Leahy
Pierced for Our Transgressions / Jeffery, Ovey, and Sach
Spectacular Sins / John Piper
Planet Narnia / Michael Ward
Fiction
The Children of Men / P.D. [...]
C.S. Lewis understood the devotional benefit of reading good theology. “For my own part,” wrote Lewis, “I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that ‘nothing happens’ when they [...]
Few Christian writers have helped me understand the deceitfulness of sin and my own heart more than the Puritan divine John Owen. When I need biblical counsel on the heart-work of mortification and battling temptation I go to Dr. Owen. With the publication of Overcoming Sin and Temptation, editors Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor have [...]
