Archive for the 'Books' Category

Incomparable

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Long time no blog! Hopefully I’m going to begin blogging again on a more regular basis.
Anyway, I’d like to tell you about a book. A very good book. A very very good book.
Frankly, I really hope I’m coming late to this party. This is a book too good to have gone largely unnoticed for the […]

A bibliophile’s dream!

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

I have had, quite literally, a week of books.
It was my birthday earlier in the week, and so I’ve been given various very kind gifts of books, including amidst their number the complete works of the Puritan John Flavel, and a full set of Calvin’s commentaries. I’m not going to list all the titles in […]

Wilberforce, Grace & Joy

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I just read Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper. I’d like to recommend it as a wonderful short biopic. It isn’t really a comprehensive biography, which is perhaps obvious due to its length, rather it is something of a picture as to what Piper sees as Wilberforce’s motivations and convictions.
Obviously […]

A spot of blogspotting

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Luke went to the Newfrontiers Student Worker day last weekend, and presents us with a little string of posts from that:
Session 1: Tom Shaw
Session 2: Andrew Wilson
Session 3: Q&A
In ‘Book News’ you seem likely to have heard about the new book ‘Pierced For Our Transgressions‘ which is a defense of penal substitution coming out later […]

Deluded By Dawkins?

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

A while ago I linked to Andrew Wilson’s article on the God Delusion. He has since published this as a book, although under a different name since McGrath presumably gets precedence on title choice.
Anyway, I have just been given a signed copy of it. I personally think it’s excellent, and a good response if you […]