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: Sticky Church

Sticky Church, by Larry Osborne. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2008.  201 pages. Larry Osbourne serves as pastor at North Coast Church.  During his tenure at North Coast Church, he has seen the church slowly grow ...

Review: Leaders Who Last

Leaders Who Last, by Dave Kraft.  Wheaton, Illinois: Crosway, 2010.  155 pages. Dave Kraft is a Jewish convert to Christianity.  He has served in full-time ministry for over forty years.  He currently serves on the ...

Review: Ruth

Ruth: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text, by Robert D. Holmstedt. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010. 180 page paperback.  Robert D. Holmstedt teaches ancient Hebrew and other Northwest Semitic languages at the University of ...

Preach the Word – January/February 2013

Volume 16, Number 3 Encouragement If we value the unconditional Gospel, we will value the Biblical languages. Read More The Use of the Original Languages in Sermon Preparation Three pastors discuss how they use Greek ...

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. ...