Review: Justification Reconsidered
When I was in college I remember being told, “The first five times you read the psalms, you’ll realize how little you really know. The next five times you read the psalms you’ll start to ...
Review: Deeper Places
Content of Deeper Places Premise In Jacoby's introduction, he writes: ...most people struggle to attain anything more than a remote and abstract idea about God...It is little wonder, then, that we have no emotional connection ...
Review: Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Baptism and Lord’s Supper
There are three sections to this volume. In the first section, Peters discusses Luther’s understanding of the sacraments. Some highlights are: Discussions of the early church fathers between the active “I baptize” or passive “is ...
Preach the Word – July/August 2014
Volume 17, Number 6. This issue celebrates "wedding season" as Prof. Paul Koelpin explores how to proclaim clear law and gospel amid the pomp and circumstance of a wedding. Four Weddings or a Funeral? While pastors ...
With Jesus’ Eyes
Dear Brothers, "Man looks at things; God sees through them" (Christian Dogmatics, Vol. I, 448). Want evidence of Pieper's point? Observe Jesus in Sunday's gospel (Mt 9:35 - 10:8). In town after town Jesus doesn't ...
Review: Luther and His World
I’ve come to appreciate small books. Perhaps I’ve grown lazy. Perhaps I use the excuse, “I don’t have time,” to dislike engaging in five or six hundred page examinations of this or that topic. Or, ...
Review: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals
The subtitle of this engaging read is “A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”. Titles like that tend to upset the reader’s equilibrium. One never knows what to expect when he hears the word “radical”. ...
Review: Galatians
Readers of The Shepherd’s Study are familiar with the circumstances surrounding Paul’s letter to the Galatians, but it is always edifying to review. Certain missionaries were trying to persuade Paul’s Gentile converts in Galatia to ...
Review: The Mother of the Reformation
Almost every Lutheran has heard what a remarkable person Katharine Luther was. Yet how much do we actually know about her life? Not as much as we would like, says her biographer Ernst Kroker. "With ...
Review: Balanced Christianity
In this terse book, Stott addresses what he calls in the opening chapter a “tragedy” in “evangelical Christians” – “polarization” (7). This is the tendency toward one pole or the other in any issue. Whether ...