Reviews

1. R. Scott Clark, Review: Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers By T. David Gordon
2. Harrison Perkins, Review: The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theory By Robert S. Smith
3. R. Scott Clark, Review: Reformed Confessionalism By D. Blair Smith
4. Casey Carmichael, Review: Forgotten Reformer: Myles Coverdale and the First Forty Years of the English Reformation By G. F. Main
5. Shane Lems, Review: Confession of the Christian Religion By Girolamo Zanchi (trans. Patrick O’Banion)
6. Harrison Perkins, Review: The Pastor as Leader: Principles and Practices for Connecting Preaching and Leadership By John Currie
7. Donald John MacLean, Review: When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter By Tim Cooper
8. David Hall, R. Scott Clark On The Heidelberg Catechism: A Short Review
9. Scott McDermand II, Review: The Lord’s Supper as the Sign and Meal of the New Covenant By Guy Prentiss Waters
10. Harrison Perkins, Review: To Gaze upon God: The Beatific Vision in Doctrine, Tradition, and Practice By Samuel G. Parkison
11. Jason Vander Horst, Review: The Cure for Unjust Anger By John Downame, Edited by Brian Hedges
12. Sean Morris, Review: Reformed Worship By Jonty Rhodes (Blessings Of The Faith Series)
13. Harrison Perkins, Review: Proclaiming the Triune God: The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Life of the Church By Matthew Barrett, Ronni Kurtz, Samuel G. Parkison, and Joseph Lanier
14. DeMyron Haynes, Review: Swing Low: A History of Black Christianity in the United States By Walter R. Strickland
15. Harrison Perkins, Review Roundup: Covenant Theology (Part 2): Richard P. Belcher Jr., The Fulfillment of the Promises of God: An Explanation of Covenant Theology (Fearn, Ross-Shire, UK: Mentor, 2020), Daniel I. Block, Covenant: The Framework of God’s Grand Plan of Redemption (Ada, MI: Baker Academic, 2021), J. V. Fesko, The Covenant of Redemption: Origins, Development, and Reception (Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), J. V. Fesko, The Trinity and the Covenant of Redemption (Fearn, Ross-Shire, UK: Mentor, 2016), J. V. Fesko, The Covenant of Works: Origins, Development, and Reception (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), Peter J. Gentry, Kingdom Through Covenant: A Biblical Theology of the Covenants, 2nd ed. (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018), Pierrick Hildebrand, The Zurich Origins of Reformed Covenant Theology, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), A. T. B. McGowan, Adam, Christ and Covenant: Exploring Headship Theology (London: Apollos/Inter-Varsity Press, 2016), Stephen G. Myers, Scottish Federalism and Covenantalism in Transition: The Theology of Ebenezer Erskine (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2015), Brent E. Parker and Richard J. Lucas eds., Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture (London: IVP Academic, 2022), Robert J. D. Wainwright, Early Reformation Covenant Theology: English Reception of Swiss Reformed Thought, 1520–1555 (Phillipsburg NJ: P&R Publishing, 2020), Guy Prentiss Waters, J. Nicholas Reid, and John R. Muether eds., Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Wheaton IL: Crossway, 2020).
16. Scott McDermand II, Review: The Serpent And The Serpent Slayer By Andrew David Naselli
17. Harrison Perkins, Review Roundup: Covenant Theology (Part 1): Antonio Coppola, Faithful God: An Introduction to Covenant Theology(Pretoria, South Africa: Lig in Duisternis Uitgewers, 2023);Ryan McGraw, What is Covenant Theology?: Tracing God’s Promises through the Son, the Seed, and the Sacraments (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2024); Peter Golding, Covenant Theology: The Key of Theology in Reformed Thought and Tradition (Fearn, Ross-shire, United Kingdom: Christian Focus Publications, 2008).
18. Shane Lems, Review: Small Preaching: 25 Little Things You Can Do Now To Become A Better Preacher By Jonathan T. Pennington
19. Harrison Perkins, Review: The Psalms: A Christ-Centered Commentary By Christopher Ash—Part 2: Commentary Volumes
20. Harrison Perkins, Review: The Psalms: A Christ-Centered Commentary By Christopher Ash—Part 1: Intro Volume
21. Shane Lems, Review: The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? By Jim Davis and Michael Graham
22. Shane Lems, Review: Preaching As Reminding: Stirring Memory In An Age Of Forgetfulness By Jeffrey D. Arthurs
23. Scott McDermand II, Review: Plans for Holy War: How the Spiritual Soldier Fights, Conquers, and Triumphs By John Arrowsmith
24. R. Scott Clark, Review: Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, And the Spiritual Mission Of The Church By Alan D. Strange (Part 2)
25. R. Scott Clark, Review: Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, And the Spiritual Mission Of The Church By Alan D. Strange (Part 1)
26. Paul Fine, Review: To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory From Marx To Marcuse By Carl R. Trueman
27. Luke Gossett, Review: Towards A Reformed Apologetics: A Critique Of The Thought Of Cornelius Van Til By Keith A. Mathison
28. Charles Vaughn, Review: Who Chose the Books of the New Testament? By Charles E. Hill
29. Zach Keele, Review: Reading Genesis By Marilynne Robinson
30. Zoe Miller, Review: Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda By Megan Basham (Part 2)
31. Zoe Miller, Review: Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda By Megan Basham (Part 1)
32. R. Scott Clark, Review: My Only Comfort: The Heidelberg Catechism For Devotional Reading By Amanda Martin
33. James Ritchey, Review: All Things are Ready: Understanding the Gospel in its Fullness and Freeness By Donald John MacLean
34. David Mendoza, Review: The Presbyterian Philosopher: The Authorized Biography of Gordon H. Clark By Douglas J. Douma
35. R. Scott Clark, Review: Concise Systematic Theology: An Introduction To Christian Belief. A Revised and Enhanced Edition of Salvation Belongs To The Lord By John M. Frame
36. Stephen Spinnenweber, Review: Covenant Foundations: Understanding the Promise-Keeping God of the Bible By Alec Motyer
37. Paul Fine, Review: Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945–1960: The Soul of Containment By William Inboden
38. R. Scott Clark, Review: David Clarkson’s Prizing Public Worship Edited by Jonathan Landry Cruse
39. R. Scott Clark, Review: Children At The Lord’s Table? By Cornelis P. Venema
40. Luke Gossett, Review: Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer By Adriel Sanchez
41. R. Scott Clark, Review: Reformed Scholasticism: Recovering the Tools of Reformed Theology By Ryan M. McGraw
42. R. Scott Clark, Review: Reformed Scholasticism: Recovering the Tools of Reformed Theology By Ryan M. McGraw (Part One)
43. Zoe Miller, Review: The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis By Karen Swallow Prior
44. Charles Vaughn, Review: Thank God By Reuben Bredenhof
45. Nathan White, Review: The Sabbath As Rest And Hope For The People Of God By Guy Prentiss Waters
46. Zoe Miller, Review: Fundamentalists in the Public Square: Did Fundamentalists Retreat After the 1925 Scopes Trial? By Madison Trammel
47. Charles Vaughn, Review: Pride: Identity and the Worship of Self By Matthew P. W. Roberts
48. Luke Gossett, Review: Retrieving Augustine’s Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy By Gavin Ortlund
49. Zach Keele, Review: A New Song: Biblical Hebrew Poetry As Jewish And Christian Scripture, Edited By Stephen D. Campbell, Richard G. Rohlfing Jr., And Richard S. Briggs
50. Andrew Menkis, Review: Poetry Of Redemption: An Illustrated Treasury Of Good Friday And Easter Poems By Leland Ryken
51. Christopher Smith, Review: Grounded In Heaven: Recentering Christian Hope And Life On God By Michael Allen
52. Shane Lems, Review: The Search For Christian America By Mark A. Noll, Nathan O. Hatch, And George M. Marsden
53. T. David Gordon, Review: Jesus And The Powers: Christian Political Witness In An Age Of Totalitarian Terror And Dysfunctional Democracies By N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird
54. Harrison Perkins, Review: The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church By Matthew Barrett
55. Charles Vaughn, Review: Sacred Bond: Covenant Theology Explored By Michael Brown And Zach Keele
56. Shane Lems, Review: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism By Tim Alberta
57. Sean Morris, Review: Persistent Prayer By Guy Richard (Blessings Of The Faith Series)
58. Shane Lems, Review: The Case for Christian Nationalism By Stephen Wolfe
59. Joseph Pollard, Review: C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, 1956 (Part 4)
60. Joseph Pollard, Review: C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, 1956 (Part 3)
61. R. Scott Clark, The Gospel According To John (MacArthur)
62. Sean Morris, Review: Covenantal Baptism By Jason Helopoulos (Blessings Of The Faith Series)
63. Harrison Perkins, Review: A Quiet Mind To Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, And The Death Of Christ By John Andrew Bryant
64. Alex Hewitson, Review: Wisdom for Life, 52 Old Testament Meditations By Michael P. V. Barrett
65. Christopher Smith, Review: The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host By David Gibson
66. Sean Morris, Review: Expository Preaching By David Strain
67. Casey Carmichael, Review: The Trial of the 16th Century: Calvin and Servetus By Jonathan Moorhead
68. J. David Edling, Review: Arminius and the Reformed Tradition: Grace and the Doctrine of Salvation By J. V. Fesko
69. Stephen Spinnenweber, Review: The Doctrine of Repentance By Thomas Watson (Part 1)
70. Alex Hewitson, Review: A Church You Can See: Building a Case for Church Membership By Dennis E. Bills
71. Casey Carmichael, Review: Zwingli, God’s Armed Prophet By Bruce Gordon
72. Shane Lems, Review: Preaching the Whole Counsel of God By Julius Kim
73. Stephen Spinnenweber, Review: The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes By Nancy Pearcy
74. Scott McDermand II, Review: The Labors of a Godly and Learned Divine, William Perkins: Including Previously Unpublished Sermons By Matthew N. Payne and J. Stephen Yuille
75. R. Scott Clark, Review: Puritan Portraits: J. I. Packer on Selected Classic Pastors and Pastoral Classics By J. I. Packer
76. R. Scott Clark, Review: Reformation Worship: Liturgies From the Past For The Present Ed. B Jonathan Gibson and Mark Earngey
77. R. Scott Clark, Review: On Being Black and Reformed By Anthony Carter
78. R. Scott Clark, Review: Calvin’s Theology And Its Reception Edited by J. Todd Billings and I. John Hesselink
79. Harrison Perkins, Review: The Holy Spirit by Robert Letham
80. R. Fowler White, Review: The Gospel under Siege: A Study on Faith and Works By Zane C. Hodges
81. Charles Vaughn, Review: Family Worship Bible Guide Edited by Joel Beeke et al.
82. R. Scott Clark, Review: The Binding of God: Calvin’s Role in the Development of Covenant Theology by Peter A. Lillback
83. Harrison Perkins, Review: Union with the Resurrected Christ: Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology by G. K. Beale
84. Darryl Hart, Truth Demands Truth—The History Behind The History Of Tim Keller: A Review Essay
85. Harrison Perkins, Review: More Than Heaven: A Biblical Theological Argument for a Federal View of Glorification by T. Jeff Taylor
86. Jacob Aitken, Review: Caspar Olevianus, Exposition Of The Apostles’ Creed
87. Scott McDermand II, Review: The Lord’s Prayer: Learning from Jesus on What, Why, and How to Pray by Kevin DeYoung
88. Jeffrey Karel, Review: Divine Providence: A Classic Work for Modern Reader by Stephen Charnock
89. Stephen Spinnenweber, Review: How the Church Fathers Read the Bible by Gerald Bray
90. Casey Carmichael, Review: Francis Turretin (1623–87) and the Reformed Tradition by Nicholas A. Cumming (Brill, 2021)
91. Harrison Perkins, Review of Tadataka Maruyama, Calvin’s Ecclesiology: A Study in the History of Doctrine
92. Charles Vaughn, Review: Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms ed. Chad Van Dixhoorn
93. Scott McDermand II, Review: Theodore Beza: The Man and the Myth by Shawn D. Wright
94. Harrison Perkins, Review: Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church by Michael J. Kruger
95. Shane Lems, Review: Doing Theology with The Reformers by Gerald Bray
96. Christopher Smith, Review: Lane Tipton’s The Trinitarian Theology of Cornelius Van Til
97. Simon Jooste, Review: J. M. Vorster’s The Gift of Life (Part 1): Political Liberalism Or Liberation Theology?
98. Simon Jooste, Review: J. M. Vorster’s The Gift of Life (Part 2): Postmodern Identity Politics Gets A Galatians 3:28 Makeover
99. Simon Jooste, Review: J. M. Vorster’s The Gift of Life (Part 3): What Kind Of Reformation?
100. Harrison Perkins, Review: Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical-Practical Theology Volume 3: The Works of God and the Fall of Man
101. J. David Edling, A Sacrifice for Sin Made by God to God: A Review of Benjamin Wheaton’s Suffering not Power
102. Jeffrey Karel, Review: Gospel-Shaped Marriage: Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints by Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn
103. Tyler Dowd, Review: Christ of the Consummation: The Testimony of the Gospels By O. Palmer Robertson
104. Harrison Perkins, Review: Todd Hains, Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith: Reading God’s Word for God’s People
105. Harrison Perkins, Review of Brian Brock’s Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ
106. Scott McDermand II, Review: Geerhardus Vos: Reformed Biblical Theologian, Confessional Presbyterian
107. Scott McDermand II, Review: Ben Franklin: Cultural Protestant by D. G. Hart
108. Joseph Pollard, Review: C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces (1956)
109. Tricia Howerzyl, Review: The Biggest Story Bible Storybook by DeYoung
110. Nathanael Milne, Incorrect Item Delivered: A Review of Paul’s “Works of the Law” in the Perspective of Second-Century Reception by Matthew J. Thomas
111. Stephen Spinnenweber, Review: R. C. Sproul’s Luther and the Reformation
112. William Boekestein, Review: Kevin DeYoung’s Men and Women in the Church
113. Joseph Pollard, Review: R. C. Sproul, Saved From What?
114. Alex Hewitson, Review of the Reformation Study Bible Student Edition, English Standard Version
115. Zach Keele, Review: 150 Questions About The Psalter
116. Jacob Aitken, Review: Guy Richard’s Baptism: Answers To Common Questions
117. Christopher Smith, Review: Vos’ Natural Theology
118. Scott McDermand II, Review: Coleman and Rester, Eds., Faith in the Time of Plague
119. Harrison Perkins, Review of Fred Sanders, Fountain of Salvation: Trinity and Soteriology
120. Harrison Perkins, Reconciling the Divine Processions-Missions Relationship with Confessional Reformed Theology: An Engagement with Adonis Vidu’s The Divine Missions: An Introduction (Part 1)
121. Harrison Perkins, Reconciling the Divine Processions-Missions Relationship with Confessional Reformed Theology: An Engagement with Adonis Vidu’s The Divine Missions: An Introduction (Part 2)
122. Harrison Perkins, Reconciling the Divine Processions-Missions Relationship with Confessional Reformed Theology: An Engagement with Adonis Vidu’s The Divine Missions: An Introduction Part (3)
123. Harrison Perkins, Reconciling the Divine Processions-Missions Relationship with Confessional Reformed Theology: An Engagement with Adonis Vidu’s The Divine Missions: An Introduction Part (4)
124. Adonis Vidu, Vidu On His Divine Missions: A Response To Perkins
125. Harrison Perkins, Twits, Scholars, And Thoughts On Theological Discussion: Thanks To Adonis Vidu
126. Jacob Aitken, Review: Redmond, God of the Mundane: Reflections On Life For Ordinary People (2012)
127. Harrison Perkins, Review: Bryan Estelle, The Primary Mission Of The Church (2022)
128. Stephen Spinnenweber, Actually, We Do Care: A Response To Greg Johnson’s Still Time To Care
129. Jacob Aitken, Review: Hans Boersma, Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew (2021)
130. Harrison Perkins, Kingdom Through Covenant—Round Two
131. Harrison Perkins, Review: Grant Macaskill, Autism and the Church: Bible, Theology, and Community (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019)
132. Harrison Perkins, John Piper, Future Grace: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God, rev. ed. (New York: Multnomah, 2012)—A Thorough Review
133. Harrison Perkins, Book Review: Young, Restless, And No Longer Reformed
134. R. Scott Clark, A Review Of The New Anglican Catechism And What It Says About The State Of Anglicanism
135. R. Scott Clark, John Frame, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief
136. R. Scott Clark, Review: D. G. Hart, Still Protesting (2018)
137. R. Scott Clark, Review: Reformation Worship: Liturgies From the Past For The Present (2018)
138. R. Scott Clark, Review: Roger E. Olson, The Story of Christian Theology (1999)
139. Harrison Perkins, Review: Young, Restless, And No Longer Reformed (2014)
140. R. Scott Clark, Review Of Logos 6: A Powerful And Challenging Resource (2014)
141. R. Scott Clark, Quick Headphone Review For Podcasters: Beyerdynamics DT770 v. AKG K371 (2021)
142. R. Scott Clark, Children At The Lord’s Table: A Review
143. Harrison Perkins, Kingdom Through Covenant: A Review (1)
144. Harrison Perkins, Kingdom Through Covenant: A Review (2)
145. R. Scott Clark, Review of J. I. Packer, Puritan Portraits (2012)
146. R. Scott Clark, Calvin’s Theology And Its Reception: A Review
147. R. Scott Clark, Black and Reformed: A Review (2003)
148. R. Scott Clark, Review, New City Catechism
149. R. Scott Clark, Muether on Van Til: A Review (2008)
150. R. Scott Clark, Review, Bradley Longfield, The Presbyterian Controversy (1991)

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2. Introducing Me and God: A 21-Day Country Music Devotional by Iain Duguid

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