Book Review- The Jesus Who Never Lived: Exposing False Christs and Finding the Real Jesus

Sometimes apologetics books can be dry and hard to read. Agreed? It takes one to have a keen interest in the subject at hand to stimulate the mind to keep flicking those pages, absorbing the content of said pages as you do so. Sometimes the author is very intellectual and the information given us very [...]

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Blogging through the Institutes

A friend of mine recently informed me that the guys over at the Reformation21 blog are undertaking the task of blogging through “The Institutes of the Christian Religion” by the great reformer John Calvin in 2009. If you have never heard of John Calvin, then please do look up more about him and the reformation [...]

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Book Review- A Handful of Pebbles: Theological Liberalism and The Church

“At first sight the word ‘liberalism’ doesn’t seem threatening in any way. Quite the reverse, it is often associated with ideas like ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’ and ‘generosity of spirit’. However there is something qutie sinister about ‘theological liberalism’; although not a well-defined term, it usually refers to a belief system which rejects the orthodox view of [...]

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The Shack…… just what is all the fuss about?? A review of the Shack over on Resurgence.com

There’s no doubt about it- The Shack has beena phenomenal success. By February 2008, the bookhad sold over 200,000 copies, with a marketing budget of about $200. But three months later, ayear after its release, it had sold over 700,000 copies. By the time you read this it will have soldover a million, and that [...]

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Upcoming Book reviews- ‘Doing’ Church in the 21st Century. What’s right and what’s wrong?

Within the next few weeks, God willing, I will be posting a series of reviews on the above books. As you can see all of the books deal with contemporary issues pertaining to the church. I’m sure I am not going to agree with everything that is said in some of them but I’m confident [...]

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Book Review- Who are You to Judge? Erwin Lutzer

I had heard the name here and there but never actually read anything by him or listened to anything preached by him. But now, after reading “Who Are You to Judge?” I can safely say that Erwin Lutzer will be someone whose teaching I will return to in the future. Lutzer is the Pastor of [...]

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Putting Amazing Back Into Grace

Putting Amazing Back Into Grace is the first book I have read by Michael Horton. It will certainly not be my last. On the cover of the book J.I. Packer declares the book “a breaktaking workout” and his praise is justified. This book points us back to the Reformation and ultimately to the Bible itself [...]

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The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

Without a shadow of doubt the church today lacks discernment. We live in an age where TV and other forms of entertainment arrest our attention away from the diligent study of Scripture. As a result, many are blindly following teachings that are “dodgey” at best, heretical at worst. If one is acquainted with the goings [...]

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