Redeeming Productivity, by Reagan Rose. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2022. ix + 158 pp. $15.99. Reagan Rose is the founder of Redeeming Productivity, an online teaching ministry aimed at recapturing personal productivity for the sake...
Spiritual Care Basics and Beyond: What Do I Say? What Should I Do? Interpersonal Tools and Resources for Spiritual Care, by Joel Hempel. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2023. 200 pp. $28.00. The author, having ministered in roles of...
Unto Others: Rediscovering the Golden Rule—the Lost Key to Relationships, by Dave Swavely. Minneapolis, MN: Cruciform Press, 2022, 144 pp. $13.99. Pastor Dave Swavely, church planter and mission leader, writes out of concern for...
Preaching: A Simple Approach to the Sacred Task, by Daniel Overdorf. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 240 pp. $20.99. Daniel Overdorf has delivered the preaching goods again. This book makes the homiletical principles taught in higher...
Preaching Life-Changing Sermons: Six Steps to Developing and Delivering Biblical Messages, by Jesse L. Nelson. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 144 pp. $16.99. Jesse Nelson aims “to deliver life-changing sermons” that help listeners “conform...
How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward is Not the Answer, by Brian Rosner. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. 224 pp. $17.99. Brian Rosner is Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. He previously taught at the University of...
The Gospel for Disordered Lives: An Introduction to Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling, by Robert D. Jones, Kristin L. Kellen, and Rob Green. Nashville, TN: B&H, 2021. 550 pp. $44.99. The Gospel for Disordered Lives is the product...
Moore, Christopher C. Apostle of the Lost Cause: J. William Jones, Baptists, and the Development of Confederate Memory. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2019. 300 pp. $50.00 J. William Jones (1836–1909) was a well-known...
Our Comfort in Dying: Civil War Sermons by R. L. Dabney, Stonewall Jackson’s Chief-of-Staff, edited by Jonathan W. Peters. Destin, FL: Sola Fide Publications, 2021. 346 pp. $24.99. One of the challenges for Christian students of history...
John R. Rice: The Last Revivalist of the 20th Century, by John R. Himes. Menomonee Falls, WI: Christ Walk Publications, 2021. vii + 319 pp. $16.99. Living in the shadow of a famous grandfather could be perceived as a blessing or a curse....
John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America, by Eric C. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiii + 264 pp. $99.00. Eric Smith serves as the Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church in Savannah, TN, and as Associate...
Let Men Be Free: Baptist Politics in the Early United States (1776–1835),by Obbie Tyler Todd. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2022. 235 pp. $35.00 Let Men Be Free is the first comprehensive treatment of Baptist politics in early America. It comes...
A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, edited by Rob Ventura. Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor Books, 2022. 568 pp. $39.99. Nearly thirty-five years ago, Sam Waldron published a groundbreaking exposition of the...
A Christian Theology of Science, by Paul Tyson. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2022. xiv + 208 pp. $24.99. Paul Tyson is a senior research fellow at the institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. This book is...
Bioethics: A Primer for Christians, by Gilbert Meilaender. 4th edition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2020. 172 pp. $20.99. Bioethics is a burgeoning field of applied ethics. Gilbert Meilaender (Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso...
The Qur’an and the Christian: An In-Depth Look into the Book of Islam for Followers of Jesus, by Matthew Aaron Bennett. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 253 pp. $17.99. Two years after publishing a more general book on Islam in Ben Merkle’s...
Gilles Deleuze, by Christopher Watkin. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2020. xxxi + 167 pp. $12.00. A volume on the thought of the post-modern philosopher, Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) at first seems to be an unlikely addition to a series on...
The Case for Christian Nationalism, by Stephen Wolfe. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2022. 488 pp. $24.99. Stephen Wolfe has given a full-throated, tightly reasoned argument for the idea of Christian nationalism which he defines as “a totality...
Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture, by Christopher Watkin. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2022. xxiv + 648 pp. $39.99. Biblical Critical Theory is an unfortunate, frustrating title....
40 Questions about Arminianism, by J. Matthew Pinson. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 400 pp. $27.99. J. Matthew Pinson is the president of Welch College, formerly Free Will Baptist College. He is a self-confessed “Reformed Arminian.” When...
Reprobation and God’s Sovereignty: Recovering a Biblical Doctrine, by Peter Sammons. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 296 pp. $25.99. Author Peter Sammons engages the difficult doctrine of reprobation as a rhetorical Valiant-for-Truth, eager...
What Is Saving Faith? Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure, by John Piper. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. 304 pp. $23.99. John Piper, famously committed to the priority of the gospel, says, “There are a thousand needs in the...
A Theology of Paul and His Letters, by Douglas J. Moo. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2021. xi + 749 pp. $54.99. No one in the evangelical world is likely better suited to write a Pauline theology than Doug Moo, who serves as the Kenneth T....
The Savior’s Farewell: Comfort from the Upper Room, by Martyn McGeown. Jenson, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2022. 345 pp. $29.95. The author of this volume, Martyn McGeown, is a graduate of Protestant Reformed Theological...
The Testimony of the Four Gospels, in Christ of the Consummation: A New Testament Biblical Theology, by O. Palmer Robertson. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2022. xxxiii + 360 pp. $27.99. O. Palmer Robertson most recently served as director...
Jeremiah and Lamentations, by Duane Garrett and Calvin F. Pearson. Kerux Commentaries. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2022. 499 pp. $38.99. Leatherman multitools are immensely helpful because they contain in one apparatus several different tools....
ESV Expository Commentary, Volume 2: Deuteronomy–Ruth, edited by Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton Jr., and Jay Sklar. Wheaton: Crossway, 2021. 743 pp. $60.00. The ESV Expository Commentary set is Crossway’s attempt to improve upon...
The Book of Deuteronomy: Chapters 1–11, by Bill T. Arnold. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022. xli + 660 pp. $60.00. Among the most theologically profound books of the Old Testament,...
The Old Testament Law for the Life of the Church: Reading the Torah in the Light of Christ, by Richard E. Averbeck. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022. 382 pp. $40.00. Richard E. Averbeck is professor of Old Testament and Semitic...
The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One: A Multi-Layered Approach, by Gregg Davidson and Kenneth J. Turner. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2021. 210 pp. $22.99. Creation studies show no sign of abatement as interpretive disputes on the meaning of...