Entries Tagged as ‘Book Reviews’

December 30, 2008

The Best Books I Read This Year

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. [...]

October 24, 2007

Book Review: Communion with the Triune God by John Owen

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 [...]

October 26, 2006

Book Review: Overcoming Sin and Temptation by John Owen, Kelly M. Kapic and Justin Taylor

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 [...]