“Gift” denotes the sphere of voluntary, personal relations, characterized by goodwill in the giving of benefit or favor, and eliciting some form of reciprocal return that is both voluntary and necessary for the continuation of [ Read More … ]
This book is a very helpful understanding of the topic of salvation as seen primarily through the Gospel. I found it has a strong pastoral focus and counters very gracefully the easy believism which is [ Read More … ]
Have you ever heard your church minister claim God was speaking through him? Has he ever claimed to be a prophet? This book attempts to address this issue. Beasley examines Wayne Grudem’s controversial teaching on [ Read More … ]
The role of works in the final judgment is the big kahuna of theology. The topic divided the Protestant Reformers from the Roman Catholics in the 1500’s. Up till today in theological discussions people will [ Read More … ]
This book was given to me at church and I was asked to read it and pass it on to another. The description in Amazon says, “By offering a brief, straightforward explanation of what church [ Read More … ]
Sanders’ book on Paul and Palestinian Judaism presents an argument for Judaism that is commonly represented as foundational for the New Perspective on Paul. Being sympathetic to the NPP I believed I should read it. [ Read More … ]
This is a long review of the short book ‘The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited’ by Scot McKnight. Scot is an American New Testament Scholar (blog Jesus Creed) and this book calls [ Read More … ]
There are two authors of this book. Randolph Richards is a missionary who served in Indonesia for a number of years. Brandon O’Brien is a church historian who has worked in Europe. They state at [ Read More … ]
I bought and read this book because I wanted to gain some insight into how Catholics understand future salvation. In particular how they relate the concepts of judgment and salvation together with respect to faith [ Read More … ]
John calls it Christian mission. I prefer to describe what he speaks about in this book as evangelism. This is my favourite book on evangelism. John Dickson is the author and he is one contemporary [ Read More … ]