Review: Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Creed

Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Creed, by Albrecht Peters, (trans. Thomas Trapp).  St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. 306 pages. Albrecht Peters (d. Oct 26, 1987) was a professor at Ruprecht-Karl-Univeristät in Heidelberg, West Germany. Peters ...

Review: Reading Scripture with the Reformers

Reading Scriptures with the Reformers, by Timothy George, Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2011. 258 pages. Timothy George (Th. D., Harvard University) is a renowned Reformation historian. He is the founding dean at the Beeson Divinity ...

Review: Trained in the Fear of God

Trained in the Fear of God: Family Ministry in Theological, Historical, and Practical Perspective, ed. Randy Stinson and Timothy Paul Jones.  Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2011.  290 pages. Randy Stinson is dean of the School of ...

Review: Christ-centered Biblical Theology

Christ-Centered Biblical Theology, by Graeme Goldsworthy. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012. 251 pages. Graeme Goldsworthy was formerly a lecturer in Old Testament, biblical theology and hermeneutics at Moore Theological College, Sydney, where he still ...

Review: Christless Christianity

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church, by Michael Horton. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008. 259 pages. “Michael Horton is J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. ...

Review: Friends of the Law

Friends of the Law: Luther’s Use of the Law for the Christian Life, by Edward A. Engelbrecht,  St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. xvii + 310 pages. Edward Engelbrecht “serves as the senior editor for ...

Preach the Word – November/December 2012

Volume 16, Number 2 Welcome back! Because of your encouragement, we will continue with the format of having three brothers with different perspectives. The three men in this second issue, different brothers from the first ...

Review: Communicating for a Change

Communicating for a Change, by Andy Stanley and Lane Jones, Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2006. 196 pages. Andy Stanley is the founder of North Point Ministries and senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, ...

Review: Holy People, Holy Lives: Law and Gospel in Bioethics

Holy People, Holy Lives: Law and Gospel in Bioethics, by Richard C. Eyer. St. Louis: CPH, 2000. 167 pages. At the time this book was written, Richard Eyer was serving “as assistant professor of philosophy ...

Review: Luther: Man between God and the Devil

Luther:  Man between God and the Devil, by Heiko Oberman, translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. 330 pages (380 with notes, index, etc.). (German original: Luther: Mensch zwischen Gott und Teufel. ...