DelHousaye has spent a great length of time studying and reading about John, but has chosen a very limited aim for a very short book: “How did the Son of Thunder become the Apostle of Love? Answering that question is the goal of this book”. That’s OK, except that with only the thinnest and most … More Review of ‘John the Beloved’ by DelHousaye
As a pure intro to Christian counselling this is truly excellent. Concise to the point of being almost check-listy, it covers a lot of ground in defining Biblical counselling and giving a ‘how-to’ outline, as well as integrating the concept of pastoral counselling into how all Christians disciple one another. The authors help demystify it … More Review of ‘The Pastor & Counseling’ by Reju & Pierre
His credentials as a long-term missionary and now trainer in Central Asia, coupled with the book’s record-setting commendations-to-book-length ratio helped to make this a compelling reading prospect. … More Suck it up, buttercup
A Review of ‘Counseling One Another: A Theology of Interpersonal Discipleship’ by Paul Tautges I wish I knew what this book was supposed to achieve. I’ve tried to think of an audience or a situation for whom it would be helpful and I can’t think of one. This is particularly frustrating as I wholeheartedly share … More Straw Men and the Napalm Polemic
Christian Focus Publications has a well-earned and valued reputation for publishing books that they think should or could usefully be read, rather than simply making cold economic decisions about what they think is most likely to be snaffled up. This approach includes republication of valuable, previously out-of-print works, and the commission of new material such … More You Say Bayzel, I Say Bazzle
Being English, I’m somewhat leary of popular Pastors writing books that seem to be going over ground so well-trodden that visitors have to be re-routed to avoid erosion – it seems a little too commercially driven, and unnecessary. When said book is a weeny little thing about such a monumental and wide issue as the … More Not Taking DeYoung At His Word
Commentaries have a very bad name and no-one, it seems, wants to read them. I’ve been able to talk a few of my non-preaching friends into reading a commentary, but on the whole my recommendation has been met with the kind of knowing smile I would give an astrophysicist should he or she claim that … More A Great Commenduction to Romans
I was interested to see an interview with the author of this book about Christianity in China, as my grandparents were missionaries there, with Grandad serving from 1933 until 1951 when they were kicked out by the new Mao regime. One sentence from the interview leapt out at me: “From what I have seen so … More God’s Work, God’s Timing
Paul T Reynolds 