As soon as Love Thy Body arrived, Miss 15 asked permission to read it and ran off with it. Who better to teach her than Nancy Pearcey? But after a while she came back. “I don’t like it. You will, though.” And later, to someone else, she said, “It hits all the hot button topics, […]
Reviews: Reformed
Review: Embodied Hope by Kelly Kapic
Pain and suffering require good theology because often, during intense pain of any kind, the whole question of how God’s sovereignty and goodness relate becomes intensely personal. Often Psalm 92:15—The Lord is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him—becomes a very difficult confession. Is God really good? Sometimes it’s an […]
Review: Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung
We all have a lot of decisions to make and, according to DeYoung, our evangelical culture does not promote wise decision-making. Part of the problem is that we have so many choices to make, but much of the time we are swayed by incorrect theology. This dramatically reduces our effectiveness, both in our personal life […]
Resources for Luther and the Reformation
As I paged through piles of books while preparing this article, I was reminded that there is one resource each of the reformers would have placed at the top of a Reformation resource list, the Bible. All treasured it, all based their lives on it, and some died for it. Obviously, you cannot truly understand […]