Posted by AJ on July 28th, 2009
In case anyone’s interested, I’ve reviewed A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to “Left Behind” Eschatology (edited by Craig L. Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung) for the latest issue of Themelios. You can read the review here.
Here’s my concluding analysis for the review:
Although CHP addresses many important issues relating to nondispensational premillennialism and does an [...]
Posted by AJ on July 22nd, 2009
Today I heard about Melinda Rankin for the first time. An amazing woman! Melinda was a single Presbyterian missionary in northern Mexico in the mid-ninteenth century who started a school in Monterrey. Her little autobiography, Twenty Years Among the Mexicans, ends with these excellent words:
Satan may yet make attempts to maintain his throne in Mexico, but [...]
Posted by AJ on June 13th, 2009
The Pleasures of God, my all-time favorite book (next to the Bible) is now available as a 5-part audio/video seminar. If you don’t ever read the book, at least listen to or watch this seminar.
The Pleasures of God, Part 1
The Pleasures of God, Part 2
The Pleasures of God, Part 3
The Pleasures of God, Part 4
The Pleasures [...]
Posted by AJ on April 13th, 2009
I’m currently (slowly) reading God’s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards by John Piper. This book presents Jonathan Edwards’ (and Piper’s) vision for the centrality of the glory of God in all of life with a special focus on Edwards’ The End For Which God Created the World. Piper discusses Edwards’ thesis [...]
Posted by AJ on March 20th, 2009
These are books that I’ve read that, at the time in my theological and spiritual pilgrimage when I read them, had a particularly profound impact upon my life and thinking. [...]