Posts about books that I’ve read.
This is a good book, and an unusual one. Its core idea is how to present a rather specific apologetic argument. The first part lays out that argument in some detail, and the remainder focuses principally on responding to various objections. Woven in throughout are pointers on effective, person-to-person evangelism. Hence the book’s epigraph: “Be … [Read more…]
The basic theme of this interesting book is that, in asking why there are differences in the four accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus that we find in the Gospels, one ought to consider, not how biographies are written now, but how biographies were written then — and that, if one does that, … [Read more…]
I’m a Lee Strobel fan, and would put his trilogy of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and The Case for a Creator near the top of my apologetics list. The book that is the subject of this post follows the same template as his others: The author makes an intelligent division of … [Read more…]
I’m a Lee Strobel fan, and would put his trilogy of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and The Case for a Creator near the top of my apologetics list. His book that is the subject of this post follows the same template as his others: The author makes an intelligent division of … [Read more…]
In reading this book I was arrested almost at once by this passage (xvi, emphasis added, footnote omitted): … With the aim of restoring the Word of God to the life of the church, Luther used every legitimate means to make known the truths of Scripture. His strategies included writing books, tracts, pamphlets, and letters, … [Read more…]
I just finished reading this book, about which I had mixed (though mostly favorable) feelings, and wanted to highlight just two points. First, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is generally praised these days by all Christians, liberal and conservative, so it’s worth noting that he was pro-life (92-93; note that Eric Metaxas also recently wrote a biography of … [Read more…]
Below is the text for a possible children’s book that would introduce them to the Bible. Of course, there would be illustrations, too, but I can’t draw, or at least not very well. Or a parent or grandparent could just read this text to his or her child or grandchild. WHAT IS THE BIBLE? What … [Read more…]
This book’s author, Michael Novak, was erudite and rightly acclaimed. He was around for a long time; he cites in this 2008 book a few times his own book Belief and Unbelief — which he wrote in 1965, more than forty years earlier. And I enjoyed the book I’ll be discussing here. *** The book’s overarching … [Read more…]
Our church recently distributed this book to its “small group” leaders, and a good friend who’d already read it said this was the best book on evangelism he ever read (he noted in particular its emphasis on the importance of replication). The whole book is online here: [link: https://campusministryunited.com/Documents/MasterPlanOfEvangelism.pdf]. The title contains the theme: “Master … [Read more…]
This book was given to me by a good friend, who noted that the author has written books with William Lane Craig, whom I greatly admire (Craig is mentioned a couple of times in this book). I was happy to see in it several references to Blaise Pascal and C.S. Lewis, namesake authors of this … [Read more…]