Category Archives: Recommendations and Reviews

Before passing along a brief review of the New Living Translation Study Bible, I want to talk a bit about study Bibles in general in my own experience. I have used a lot of Bibles in my life, and I’ve owned several “study” Bibles, but I have only used two extensively and for particular reasons.Continue reading “Recommendation and Review: The NLT Study Bible”

Don’t forget to check out my new blog at Jesus Shaped Spirituality. Practical Theology for Women by Mars Hill church Bible teacher Wendy Alsup is a collection of Bible studies emphasizing the practical application of Biblical truth and basic theology in the lives of….women. (A free chapter is available at the Crossway web site.) AdrianContinue reading “Recommendation and Review: Practical Theology for Women by Wendy Alsup”

The Theology Program’s online classes are starting up later this month. The materials are amazing and you won’t find an experience this theologically enriching in most seminaries. I highly recommend The Theology Program to IM’s readers and friends. Michael Patton has the full schedule of classes available here.

I quit calling myself a Calvinist in 2006, and I really moved theologically to other theological convictions in the following months. Today I love my Calvinist friends, but I’m not one of them. One of the primary reasons for my shift was my inability to identify my own experience of Jesus as the same asContinue reading “Recommendation: Is Christianity Good for the World? and A Primer on Worship and Reformation, both by Douglas Wilson”

One of the most optimistic developments in evangelicalism is the broadening commitment to issues of justice and compassion, especially among younger evangelicals. This has been reflected in many areas of evangelical life, especially in the proliferation of justice and compassion organizations and voices supporting an promoting them. Evangelical justice concerns have broadened beyond world hungerContinue reading “Recommendations: Just Courage by Gary Haugen, Red Letters and Fields of the Fatherless by Tom Davis”

Ravi Zacharias continues his Conversations With Jesus Series with New Birth and Rebirth: Jesus Talks With Krishna. (Other available titles in the series on on the same order page.) Those of us who appreciate Ravi Zacharias as a mentor and teacher have enjoyed these books even as we realize the limitations of each one. TheContinue reading “Recommendation: New Birth or Rebirth? Jesus Talks With Krishna by Ravi Zacharias”

Many evangelicals have an interest in Rwanda as a place where short and long term mission efforts are becoming more common. Two of my fellow staff members are quite possibly on their way to Rwanda as career missionaries. Resources on Rwanda are not easy to find. While there are some excellent films, print resources withContinue reading “Recommendation: Christ Walks Where Evil Reigned by Emmanuel Kolini and Peter Holmes”

I’ve got two books to recommend this morning. Both would be helpful to small groups looking for topical resources for discussion and study. The first book is Tom Davis’s Confessions of a Good Christian Guy, a book that rings the bell for one of my favorite topics: transparency and vulnerability in Christian community. I haveContinue reading “Recommendations: Confessions of a Good Christian Guy by Tom Davis, Good Intentions by Charles North and Bob Smietana”