The Letter of James
Scot McKnight begins his commentary with these words: “In teaching the letter of James, one should walk to the front of the room and write these words in big letters on the chalkboard: Read ...
Review: The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity
Will this book end up as shelf-furniture? I struggled with that question while writing this review. It’s a good book, but it may not be for you. The introduction correctly claims that the book ...
Review: How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind
When were the seeds of Christianity first sown on the continent of Africa? From a WELS historical perspective, one might recall the Synodical Conference’s start of mission work in Nigeria in 1936 or Wisconsin’s ...
Review: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Many unbelieving scholars believe that the original stories about Jesus underwent changes and picked up fictional additions before they were finally written down in our canonical Gospels. Young people from our congregations who go ...
Review: Dangerous Calling
This book seeks to reveal the truth that the culture surrounding pastors is often times spiritually unhealthy, that is, an environment that actively undermines the well-being and efficacy of church leaders and thus an entire ...
Review: A Place for Weakness
A Place for Weakness is a book all about being prepared for suffering. In fact, the subtitle to the book Preparing Yourself for Suffering seems to be a more appropriate title. The idea for ...
Review: Pilgrim Theology
What little I knew about Michael Horton before reading this book led me to think that here was one of those voices in the Reformed camp that might have been working to heal the divide ...
Matthew as Story
In the three-year cycle of the ILCW lectionary, Year A is the year of Matthew. Since Year A has now ended and we are well into Year B, this review is perhaps a year too ...
Review: Women Pastors?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...” These words from the Declaration of Independence have no legal authority, since they are not part of the Constitution or the Bill ...
Review: Christ-Centered Preaching
As the title indicates, the author is concerned with centering preaching in Christ. In the foreword to the second edition, he makes a two-part clarification on “Christ-centered”: first as “standing for...God’s redemptive work, which finds ...