Why Don’t We Listen Better Book Review
My SummationJames C. Petersen’s book, Why Don’t We Listen Better? Communicating & Connecting in Relationships, is a treatise on talking and listening organized in five sections. The first section explores communication options. The second section...9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed Book Review
My SummationHenry Cloud’s book, 9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life: A Psychologist Probes the Mystery of Why Some Lives Really Work and Others Don’t, is an analysis of nine practices of successful people. Cloud labels these successful...Pastoral Ministry Book Review: MacArthur
SummaryIn Pastoral Ministry: How to Shepherd Biblically, John MacArthur and the faculty of Master’s Seminary provide a series of twenty-two vignettes in the form of chapters that address a broad spectrum of topics related to pastoral ministry. With the stated...Letters to My Students Book Review
SummaryLectures to My Students is a compilation of Charles Spurgeon’s lectures to students of the Pastors’ College, a college Spurgeon (2010, vii) opened in 1856 to train students to preach rather than to become scholars. The purpose of the original...Sharing Jesus without Fear Book Review
Content SummaryThe thesis of Fay’s book is that all believers can share the Gospel and never fail, and the purpose is to encourage believers to do so. Accordingly, Fay begins by suggesting that sharing one’s faith is, by definition, success, and...Family to Family Book Review
Content SummaryThe thesis of Jerry Pipes and Victor Lee’s book is that parents can provide a meaningful and significant family experience and pass the Christian faith to their children (Pipes and Lee 1999, 1). The purpose of Family to Family is to help parents...The Believer’s Church Article Review
SummaryThe following review of Jason Duesing’s work, “The Believers Church: A ‘Natural Resource’ Worth Conserving,” summarizes the article’s contents along with a survey of its major strengths and weaknesses. The author’s...Baptists and the Ecumenical Movement Article Review
SummaryThe following review of Briggs’ work, “Baptists and the Ecumenical Movement,” will include a summary of the article’s contents along with a survey of its major strengths and weaknesses. The author’s intent is to prove that,...John Wesley’s Doctrine of Justification
INTRODUCTIONSome consider John Wesley the most influential theologian since the sixteenth century.[1] Alternatively, many academicians do not believe Wesley was even a “real” theologian.[2] Furthermore, the eclectic nature of Wesleyan thought has been...
Freedom: How Grace Transforms Your Life Now
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