Category Archives: Book Reviews
The Best Books I Read This Year (2011)
These are my thirteen favorite books I read in 2011: 1. Unbroken / Laura Hillenbrand This biography of Louie Zamperini was the best book I read in 2011. (Thank you, Russ Andrews, for recommending it to me!) As I read Unbroken I kept … Continue reading
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The Best Books I Read This Year (2010)
These are my fifteen favorite books I read in 2010: 1. What Did You Expect? / Paul David Tripp Of all the books I read this year, What Did You Expect? was my favorite. It ought to be required reading for … Continue reading
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“A book that will break your heart” by C.S. Lewis
“Not content to create his own story, he creates, with an almost insolent prodigality, the whole world in which it is to move, with its own theology, myths, geography, history, palaeography, languages, and orders of beings– a world full of … Continue reading
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The Best Books I Read This Year (2009)
These are the ten best books I read in 2009: 1. The Meaning of the Pentateuch / John H. Sailhamer I’ve been awaiting this volume from Dr. Sailhamer for several years. It was well worth the wait. A primer on … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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. … Continue reading
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