Review: A Lutheran Looks at Mega Churches
A Lutheran Looks at Mega Churches, by Andrew P. Bauer. Milwaukee: NPH, 2012. 99 pages. Andrew Bauer is the pastor at New Life Lutheran Church in Lake Zurich, Illinois. Pastor Bauer, the author of A ...
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 ...
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: Broken
Broken: 7 “Christian” Rules That Every Christian Ought to Break as Often as Possible, by Jonathan Fisk. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2012. 280 pages. Pastor Jonathan Fisk is one of the associate pastors ...
Review: Bearing the Cross
Bearing the Cross: Devotions on Albrecht Dürer’s Small Passion, by Carolyn S. Brinkley. St. Louis MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2012. 167 pages. Carolyn Brinkley is trained as a deaconess in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. This ...
Review: Lutheran Spirituality
Lutheran Spirituality: Life as God’s Child, Robert C. Baker, ed. St. Louis: Concordia, 2010. 301 pages. The general editor for this book is Rev. Robert C. Baker, Senior Editor of Adult Bible Studies, Concordia Publishing ...
Review: Rediscovering the Church Fathers
Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church, by Michael A.G. Haykin. Wheaton: Crossway, 2011. 172 pages. Dr. Michael A.G. Haykin is the professor of church history and Biblical spirituality ...
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: 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 ...