Satan’s Fall

Dear Brothers, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven" (Luke 10:18). So says he who by his life and death was in the process of earning that stunning fall for the ancient serpent. Every ...

Review: Wide as the Waters

Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired, by Benson Bobrick. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 384 pages. Benson Bobrick earned his doctorate in English and Comparative ...

Review: One Bible, Many Versions

One Bible, Many Versions, by Dave Brunn. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2013. 195 pages Dave Brunn is dean of academics for New Tribes Mission (NTM) USA Missionary Training Center. A missionary, translator and educator, ...

Review: The Lutheran Difference

The Lutheran Difference: An Explanation & Comparison of Christian Beliefs, edited by Edward A. Engelbrecht. St. Louis: CPH, 2010. 602 pages. Rev. Edward A. Engelbrecht is Senior Editor for Bible Resources at Concordia Publishing House. ...

Review: Blink

Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell.  New York, New York: Back Bay Books, 2005.  296 pages. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of the #1 international bestseller The Tipping Point.  He is a staff writer for The New ...

Resurrection Guarantee

Dear Brothers, What amazing words we heard this Sunday spoken to a corpse!  "Young man, I say to you, get up!" Such were the words our Lord spoke with compassion to the dead son of ...

Review: The Real Luther

The Real Luther: A Friar at Erfurt & Wittenberg: Exploring Luther’s Life with Melanchthon as Guide, by Franz Posset.  St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2011.  195 pages. Dr. Franz Posset is an independent researcher ...

Review: The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque by Sidney H. Griffith, Princeton University Press, 2008; xiii + 220. Sidney H. Griffith is a professor at the Catholic University of America, where he teaches Syriac ...

Review: I Trust When Dark My Road

I Trust When Dark My Road:  A Lutheran View of Depression, by Todd A. Peperkorn. LC-MS World Relief and Human Care, 2009.  95 pages. Todd Peperkorn served as an LC-MS Pastor of Messiah Ev. Lutheran ...

Review: Church from Age to Age

The Church from Age to Age: A History from Galilee to Global Christianity, Edited by Edward A. Engelbrecht and Laura L. Lane. St. Louis: Concordia, 2011. 1,048 pages. Rev. Edward Engelbrecht serves as General Editor ...