With ‘Christ-Centered Worship’ Bryan Chapell has produced a great contribution to the worship of the Christian Church, particularly those churches in the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition. Chapell encourages us to ‘think of worship in gospel terms’ and to do this in distinction of thinking ‘only in evangelistic terms.’ As we meet together as the people …
The phrase ‘Young, Restless, Reformed’ is getting a bit of a workout these days. Calvinism was nominated by TIME magazine as one of ’10 Ideas Changing The World Right Now’ earlier this year, which means that Calvinism is having some impact on US Christianity. (TIME magazine equates the US with the world more often than …
Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, authors of ‘Why We’re Not Emergent’, reunite to produce ‘Why We Love The Church’, which is subtitled ‘In Praise Of Institutions And Organised Religion’. Having pointed out the departures from biblical Christianity which are present in the ‘Emergent’ movement, DeYoung and Kluck set themselves the task of positively outlining a …
Risking The Truth is subtitled: Handling Error In The Church. The format is different. Rather than featuring one author, or a series of essays by a number of authors, the book is composed of twenty interviews that cover the theory and practice of ‘asserting, maintaining and defending’ the truth of the Scriptures. (I use the …
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