In What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter Voddie Baucham Jr. does Christian dads a favor.  He challenges them with a biblical vision of Christian courtship; and he cushions his challenge with a clear cut, easy to read, guide for how to think and plan about their daughter’s fu...

Voddie Baucham Jr. has just written a fascinating and somewhat provocative new book: What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter (Crossway).  Crossway was kind enough to give me a preview of the book, and my wife and I were quite pleased as we skimmed through it last night.  Baucham is...

I’ve been enjoying the book Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures by Dennis Johnson (P&R), lately. I hope to finish the book and have a review up by next week. This morning I came across a section that I’ll share in a quote below. I had never thought of the connec...

Music Monday posts highlight the music which touched my heart on Sunday. I pray the message of these songs will help us all to live in the spirit of Worship all week long. Two Sundays ago I heard this song for the first time.  It followed a heartfelt, God-centered, prayer by a man whose wife only h...

In Testing the Textus Receptus posts, I test the claims of Textus Receptus (TR) Onlyism.  This is a moderate form of King James Onlyism focusing on the Greek (& Hebrew) basis for the King James Version. As I mentioned earlier, Luke 2:22 is one of three passages that James White (author of The K...

This is a powerful video clip.  It testifies to the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Watch and be moved to worship, thanks, praise and joy.  [HT: Shaun Tabatt] more about “Cardboard Testimonies“, posted with vodpod       ...

Authors: C.J. Mahaney (editor), and others Format: Hardcover Page Count: 191 Publisher: Crossway Publication Date: 2008 ISBN: 1433502801 Rating: 5 of 5 stars My thanks go out to Crossway for providing me with a review copy of this book. Any book entitled Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fal...

Spiritual abuse is a sad reality.  Churches, pastors, and others can perpetuate it.  I’m sure among cults it is common, but unfortunately in many independent Baptist circles, it is too. I don’t want to say that everyone who claims to have been spiritually hurt this way, really was.  N...

With the completion of my review for the Chronological Study Bible (NKJV) by Thomas Nelson Publishers, I can now announce my book giveaway.  Compliments of Kate Etue, publicist for Thomas Nelson, I was given a second copy of this excellent study Bible. I will send this copy out to a US resident, wh...

Quick update on my reading for you all.  I recently finished Crossway’s Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World edited by CJ Mahaney, and Thomas Nelson’s The Chronological Study Bible (NKJV) .  I’m still working my way through P&R Publishing’s Him We Proc...