No one denies that the Bible contains accounts of miracles. Furthermore, no one denies that people claim to experience or witness miracles even today. The question is whether putative miracles are supernatural works of God or merely anomalies that await … Continue reading Miracles Today | Book Review
Church planting has been around since New Testament times. Today, however, it means more than starting a single congregation. It often means one congregation multiplying itself through other congregations. In Twelve Trends in Multiplication, Jeff Leake identifies different ways existing … Continue reading Twelve Trends in Multiplication | Book Review
Many years ago, my mother gave me a sepia-toned lithograph of an 1896 William Strutt painting. It depicts a child leading a menagerie of animals, both predators and prey, with one hand clutching a palm branch and the other resting … Continue reading Deep Peace | Book Review
In a memorandum to himself, Abraham Lincoln used Proverbs 25:11 to describe the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. That proverb says, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” The Declaration is the … Continue reading The Declaration and the Constitution | Book Review
Many Christians feel ambivalence about evangelism. On the one hand, Jesus’ good news has captured their hearts, so they want to share it. On the other hand, they are unsure how to do so. This uncertainty often arises because they … Continue reading Contagious Faith | Book Review
Chronicles is the final Old Testament volume in Immerse: The Reading Bible. It consists of six books written after the Babylonian exile: 1–2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and Daniel. What struck me with particular force in these books is their … Continue reading Chronicles, Volume 6 of Immerse: The Reading Bible | Book Review
Daughter of the Morning Star is the 17th installment in Craig Johnson’s long-running series of novels featuring Walt Longmire. Longmire is sheriff of (fictional) Absaroka County, Wyoming. In this story, Longmire is on the hunt for the person sending threatening … Continue reading Daughter of the Morning Star | Book Review
The Hebrew Bible divides itself into three sections: Torah, Nevi’im (“Prophets”), and Ketuvim (“Writings”). Immerse: The Reading Bible largely follows this order. Beginnings is identical to Torah, the first five books of the canonical Bible. It divides Nevi’im into Kingdoms … Continue reading Poets, Volume 5 of Immerse: The Reading Bible | Book Review
When I was a kid, Dad paid me to read biographies of missionaries. He believed doing so would both inform and inspire my faith. I remember reading about Adoniram Judson, David Livingstone, and George Mueller in Moody Publisher’s Golden Oldies … Continue reading Born to Give
Jack Reacher is working as a deliveryman in Boston when he witnesses a kidnapping at one of that city’s numerous institutions of higher learning. Reacher being Reacher, he intervenes, killing the kidnappers as well as a city cop who just … Continue reading Persuader | Book Review
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