Psalm 22 depicts an afflicted person and his praises to God. As death looms, the sufferer cries out in agony, desperate for deliverance. ((Dr. Hassler is Professor of Old Testament at Virginia Beach Theological Seminary in Virginia Beach, VA.)) From whose point of...
I realize that resurrection Sunday may feel a bit like last week’s news. After all, it’s done. We’ve celebrated. Now we’ve moved on to what’s next, whether that’s Pentecost or something (slightly) less noble like the pennant race. We’ll be happy to do it all again...
Introduction Opinions about charity for the poor are not in short supply.((Ben Edwards serves as the senior pastor of Cross Lanes Bible Church in Cross Lanes, WV. He served on the faculty and administration at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary from 2013–2024. Of...
This issue of the journal is dedicated to Dr. R. Bruce Compton, who retired in May of 2025 after 41 years of faithful service as professor of Biblical Languages and Literature at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. Early Life and Formation Robert Bruce Compton was...
Throughout church history professing believers have argued amongst themselves about all kinds of things. In retrospect, some of these debates have been key steps in hammering out the details of important theological issues. Other debates have been less than edifying....
The Holy Spirit in Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries, and Today, by Anthony C. Thiselton. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. xiii + 578 pp. $46.00. Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the Holy Spirit has occupied a central position in...
Interpreting the General Letters: An Exegetical Handbook, by Herbert W. Bateman IV. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2013. 311 pp. $29.99. Herbert Bateman holds a Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary and has taught at several seminaries in the United States and abroad. Bateman...
He Will Reign Forever: A Biblical Theology of the Kingdom of God, by Michael J. Vlach. Silverton, OR: Lampion Press. 638 pp. $39.95. If one wishes to really grasp the big picture of the Bible, one has to understand four areas of doctrine: salvation, dispensationalism,...
Preaching Christ from Psalms: Foundations for Expository Sermons in the Christian Year, by Sidney Greidanus. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016. xx + 595 pp. $40.00. Preaching Christ from Psalms is the fifth and final volume in this series on preaching expository Christian...
Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices, by David Beale. Maitland, FL: Xulon, 2018. ix + 627 pp. $28.99. David Beale, retired professor of Church History at Bob Jones University, has written a fresh look at Baptists of England...
Dispensationalism and Free Grace: Intimately Linked, by Grant Hawley. Taos, NM: Dispensational Publishing House, 2017. 74 pp. $12.95. In this brief book, Grant Hawley attempts to demonstrate that the literal interpretation of dispensationalism gives rise to free grace...
The Heartbeat of Old Testament Theology: Three Creedal Expressions, by Mark J. Boda. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2017. xv + 220 pp. $23.00. Mark Boda is professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. The nucleus of this book originated in a...
In Search of Ancient Roots: The Christian Past and the Evangelical Identity Crisis, by Kenneth J. Stewart. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017. 304 pp. $30.00. One of the more contested topics of church history is the search for historical roots and the theological...
Introducing the Old Testament, by Robert L. Hubbard, Jr., and J. Andrew Dearman. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018. xxi + 538 pp. $40.00. Robert L. Hubbard, Jr., serves as professor emeritus of biblical literature at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, while J....
Every Believer Confident: Apologetics for the Ordinary Christian, by Mark J. Farnham. Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2019. 206 pp. $14.99. Serious students of apologetics are aware of the trouble that presuppositional apologists (a.k.a. transcendental, covenantal, or...
Being a Pastor: A Conversation with Andrew Fuller, by Michael A. G. Haykin and Brian Croft. Durham, UK: Evangelical Press, 2019. 256 pp. $15.99. Bible college and seminary professors have long urged ministerial students to pursue the study of church history. One of...
America’s Religious History: Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation, by Thomas S. Kidd. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2019. 313 pp. $24.99. The initial decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed conspicuous displays of violence that have been...
Baptists and the Holy Spirit: The Contested History of the Holiness-Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements, by C. Douglas Weaver. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019. xvi + 573 pp. $69.95. Douglas Weaver has written a most compelling and well researched study on the...
The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers: Learning to Interpret Scripture from the Prophets and Apostles, by Abner Chou. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2018. 251 pp. $23.99. Abner Chou serves as a professor of Biblical Studies at The Master’s University and Seminary...
In previous posts (here, here, and here), I have argued that the beginning of the KJV-only movement can be traced to the publication of the 1881 revision of the KJV, the Revised Version (RV), and the opposition to it by Dean Burgon, which was set forth in his 1883...
A New Testament Theology, by Craig L. Blomberg. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. 704 pp. $49.95. Craig Blomberg is Distinguished Professor of NT at Denver Seminary where he has taught since 1986. In addition to an abundance of scholarly articles, he has...
Baptists and the Bible, 40th Anniversary Edition, by L. Russ Bush and Tom. J. Nettles. Fort Worth, TX: Seminary Hill Press, 2020. xxx + 480 pp. $24.99. Baptists and the Bible, the fruit of almost a decade of discussions and research by L. Russ Bush (d. 2008) and Tom...
The Mystery of the Trinity: A Trinitarian Approach to the Attributes of God, by Vern S. Poythress. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2020. xxx + 688 pp. $49.99. For the better part of the past two decades, evangelicals have debated the nature of the absoluteness of God,...
An Introduction to Biblical Greek: A Grammar with Exercises, by John D. Schwandt. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2020. xii + 497 pp. $34.99. John D. Schwandt is currently the president of Redemption Seminary after having taught New Testament at New Saint Andrews College for...
Biblical Theology According to the Apostles: How the Earliest Christians Told the Story of Israel, by Chris Bruno, Jared Compton, and Kevin McFadden. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2020. xvii + 230 pp. $27.00. In this fifty-second volume of the New Studies in...
The Doctrine of Creation: A Constructive Kuyperian Approach, by Bruce Riley Ashford and Craig G. Bartholomew. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020. 448 pp. $50.00. Craig Bartholomew and Bruce Riley Ashford, both of the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology in...
Good Works: Hospitality and Faithful Discipleship, by Keith Wasserman and Christine D. Pohl. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021 viii + 180 pp. $16.99. Keith Wasserman is the founder and executive director of Good Works Inc. His co-author, Christine D. Pohl, is professor...
New Life in Christ: What Really Happens When You’re Born Again and Why It Matters, by Steven J. Lawson. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2020. 216 pp. $15.99. With the heart of a pastor, the mind of a theologian, and the passion of an evangelist, Steve Lawson gives the reader a...
Before We Forget: Reflections from New and Seasoned Pastors on Enduring Ministry, edited by Nathan Millican and Jonathon Woodyard. Nashville: B&H Books, 2020. x + 213 pp. $16.99. Editors and authors Nathan Millican and Jonathon Woodyard have brought together...
Holy Living: Jonathan Edwards’s Seventy Resolutions for Living the Christian Life, by Matthew Everhard. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2021. 163 pp. $16.95. The year 2022 marks three hundred years since Jonathan Edwards began writing his seventy “Resolutions.” To...
Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death, by Peter J. Leithart. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. 140 pp. $15.99. Peter Leithart currently serves as president of the Theopolis Institute, a study center and training institute for leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Leithart...
Paul and the Hope of Glory: An Exegetical and Theological Study, by Constantine R. Campbell. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2020. xxiv + 503 pp. $34.99. Constantine Campbell is senior vice president of global content and Bible teaching at Our Daily Bread Ministries. His...
Signs of the Messiah: An Introduction to John’s Gospel, by Andreas J. Köstenberger. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2021. xiii + 188 pp. $27.99. Research professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Andreas J. Köstenberger has long been established as one of the...
The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession, by Bruce Chilton. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2021. xvii + 346 pp. $16.10. Bruce Chilton has served as Professor of Religion at Bard College, a liberal arts school with Episcopalian roots, since 1987. He has had a...
A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century, by Donald M. Lewis. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2021. x + 373 pp. $36.00. Writing a few years after the end of World War I, the British War and Air secretary Winston...
The Angel of the Lord: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Study, by Matt Foreman and Doug Van Dorn. Denver: Waters of Creation, 2020. xvi + 412 pp. $33.97. Matt Foreman has been the pastor of Faith Reformed Baptist Church in Media, PA, since 2003 and is a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
How to Be a Pastor: Wisdom from the Past for Pastors in the Present, edited by Ran Van Neste and Justin Wainscott. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2024. xx + 70 pp. $15.00. Theodore Cuyler may be an unfamiliar name to most, but he was no...
Preparing Sermons from the Page to the Pulpit: Exegesis to Exposition in Seven Steps, by Wayne Baxter. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2023. xii + 185 pp. $22.99. Wayne Baxter encourages preachers to do all they can to furnish their flock...
Dispensational Hermeneutics: Interpretation Principles that Guide Dispensationalism’s Understanding of the Bible’s Storyline, by Michael J. Vlach. Cary, NC: Theological Studies Press, 2023. 111 pp. $29.95. Michael J. Vlach (PhD,...