Living Without Worry (Good Book Company, 2014) by Timothy Lane is a helpful, concise, and accessible treatment about the roots of anxiety and methods of dealing with it. While recognising different degrees of anxiety and various physiological conditions that may contribute to, or arise from, extreme situations, Lane offers basic principles to try navigate the …
Guy Prentiss Waters’ Acts volume in Evangelical Press’ Study Commentary series is a helpful and thorough production. It is a mid-range commentary aimed at assisting the preparation of sermons and Bible studies. The style is not that of transcribed sermons or exegetical outlines, but rather the work that is carried out before preparing a sermon …
Worshipping With Calvin (Terry Johnson, EP Books, 2014) seeks to bed what may prove to be the fragile roots of a contemporary reformed and calvinistic resurgence in the liturgical soil of the reforms to corporate worship which occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is not to say he argues for worship which mimics …
In Captivated, Thabiti Anyabwile bids us behold ‘The Mystery Of Jesus’ Death And Resurrection’. Originally five sermons, the chapters consider: Jesus’ prayer in the garden of Gethsemane; his crucifixion travail; his death; the empty grave; and the road to Emmaus. Though the passages of Scripture selected were familiar, and the narrative situations described in them …
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