Review: Give Them Grace
Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus, by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick & Jessica Thompson. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. 213 pages. Elyse M. Fitzpatrick holds an M.A. in Biblical Counseling. She is ...
Review: Glorious Ruin
Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free, by Tullian Tchividjian. Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2012. 206 pages. Readers of The Shepherds Study book reviews may be aware that Tullian Tchividjian resigned from the public ...
Review: Concordia’s Complete Bible Handbook
Concordia's Complete Bible Handbook Second Edition, introductions by Jane L. Fryar, edited by Edward A. Engelbrecht. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013. 652 pages. Jane L. Fryar is an author and editor of adult and ...
Preach the Word – September/October 2013
Volume 17, Number 1. There Is No Substitute for Preparation While modern technology has allowed for easier and greater access to information, the process of sermon preparation still requires time- study time, praying time, research ...
The Cross Bearer
Dear Brothers, Sobering. Humbling. Crucifying. Such are the words Jesus places on our hearts in the gospel for Pentecost 16. "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife ...
Review: Bread of Life from Heaven
Bread of Life from Heaven: The Theology of the Means of Grace, the Public Ministry, and church Fellowship, Gaylin R. Schmeling. Mankato, MN: Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary Press, 2009. 391 pages. Gaylin Schmeling currently serves ...
Review: Conversational Evangelism
Norman Geisler is Distinguished Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Veritas Evangelical Seminary, Murrieta, CA. He is author or coauthor of some 70 books and hundreds of articles. He has taught for nearly 50 years ...
Review: Defending the Faith
Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America, by D. G. Hart. Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P & R Publishing Co., 2003. 227 pages. Hart has served as director ...
Review: Christ in the Tabernacle
Christ in the Tabernacle: An Old Testament Portrayal of the Christ of the New Testament, by A.B. Simpson. Camp Hill, PA: Wing Spread Publishers, 2009. 98 pages. Albert Benjamin Simpson was a prominent American pastor ...
Review: The Intolerance of Tolerance
The Intolerance of Tolerance, by D. A. Carson, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. 186 pages. D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Ill. His many other books include ...