Category Archives: Book Reviews

A Review ofThe Return of Christ: A Premillennial Perspective, edited by David Allen and Steve Lemke

This review is reported from the Journal for Theology and Ministry. For free access to more articles and reviews, click the link. Ched Spellman is an adjunct professor and PhD student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is in the … Continue reading

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Ten Myths about Calvinism:
Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition

A Book Review (Part 2)

  By Dr. Lemke, Provost, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, occupying the McFarland Chair of Theology, Director of the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry, and Editor of the Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological … Continue reading

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Ten Myths about Calvinism:
Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition

A Book Review (Part 1)

  By Dr. Lemke, Provost, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, occupying the McFarland Chair of Theology, Director of the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry, and Editor of the Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological … Continue reading

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On The Return of Christ: An Interview with Steve Lemke

Steve Lemke, one of the contributing editors to SBC Today, recently published The Return of Christ: A Premillennial Perspective. Charles Savelle, editor of the Bible X(position) blog, recently posted information about The Return of Christ, and interviewed Dr. Lemke about … Continue reading

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Holy Subversion–Part One

Rev. Trevin Wax has released the book Holy Subversion.  I have the privilege of reviewing this book and it is very exciting and humbling to be asked to do this.  Rev. Wax is the Associate Pastor of First Baptist Church … Continue reading

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Reading is Fundamental!

It’s not just a children’s literacy organization.  Reading is fundamental to our lives as Christians.  Daily devotional reading of God’s word and personal, in-depth study of the Bible are non-negotiable necessities.  We must pore over the pages of the sacred … Continue reading

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REVIEW: Alcohol Today by Peter Lumpkins

Dr. Peter Lumpkins has hit a home run.  Alcohol Today: Abstinence in an Age of Indulgence is a book which is long overdue for our churches and our culture.  This debate seems to have fallen on hard times.  Anyone who … Continue reading

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Book Review–Franchising McChurch

When a choice is between eating a healthy meal or grabbing a fast food meal one makes such a choice depending on three factors.  One factor is time.  Does one have the time to prepare something healthy and make certain … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Vanishing Church

For our churches to find their way back to a biblical concept of the church, their pastors must learn to see the doctrine of the church in the Bible and learn to preach it with conviction and power. Continue reading

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"By My Own Reckoning"

Dr. Cecil Sherman’s latest book By My Own Reckoning is one this writer was planning to invest in for his library.  However, after reading Dr. Paige Patterson’s review, my mind has placed this book on the front of my “to … Continue reading

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