Give Them Grace!

          JUDY AND I JUST FINISHED READING Give them Grace a book on parenting by our fellow laborers in the gospel, Elyse Fitzpatrick and her grown daughter, Jessica Thompson.     The book has several strengths. It emphasizes the centrality of the gospel in...

Jonathan Edwards on Beauty

OUR WORLD and all of life, despite its besmirching by sin, is a world of great beauty. In Jonathan Edwards on Edwards on BeautyBeauty, Owen Strachan and Douglas Sweeney have provided a wonderful resource for the non-technical reader, one not familiar with Edwards or...

The Man Christ Jesus

The Man Christ Jesus, Dr. Bruce Ware. If you are like me you have noticed the exhortations in scripture to be led by the Holy Spirit. For example, “Those who are led by the Spirit of God are Sons of God” (Rom. 8:14). But, the big question is this: what does it mean to...

How The West Really Lost God

Mary EberstadtMARY EBERSTADT JUST penned a new volume, How The West Really Lost God. Eberstadt is a conservative scholar working for Stanford’s Hoover Institution. I have read several of her other books. Eberstadt begins by noting that Christianity is on a...

God’s Forever Family

JUST FINISHED THE kindle edition of God’s Forever Family by Larry Eskridge. Published by Oxford UniversityPress this book chronicles the revival that started with the Jesus People in 1967 and spread to the larger culture after 1976.The story begins in the...