Pierced for Our Transgressions

It finally made it across the Atlantic. Some time back there was, in Jonathan Leeman’s phrase, “quite a hullabaloo over the gospel.” That hullabaloo was largely occasioned by N. T. Wright’s response to Pierced for Our Transgressions, which has finally made it across the water and is now available from Crossway Books. N. T. Wright …

The Great Exchange, by Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington

Is a clear understanding of the atonement an academic preserve to which only theologians and scholars have access? Jerry Bridges and Bob Bevington don’t think so. Thus, they have written The Great Exchange: My Sin for His Righteousness, which seeks to explain the way that the Old Testament prepares the way for Jesus’ death, then …

The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, by Mark Dever

Mark Dever’s latest book, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, arrived on my doorstep a couple days ago, and what I’ve read so far has me convinced that this is a book for every Christian. I think I’ll get a copy for every member of our church. Dever starts with a grabbing story in the Introduction, …

The Cross Centered Life

If you’re near Oak Ridge Baptist Church here in the Houston area, you might be interested in coming out this Friday night for some dessert and coffee. After the refreshments, I’ll be preaching on “The Cross Centered Life” from 1 Corinthians 1:17-31. If you plan to go, please give them a call at (281) 367-9721 …

Review of Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission, by Michael F. Bird

Michael F. Bird, Jesus and the origins of the Gentile Mission, Library of Historical Jesus Studies. New York: T&T Clark, 2007. 212 pp. $140.00, Hardcover. This published version of Michael Bird’s dissertation, done at the University of Queensland down under, asks the question: to what extent did the views of the historical Jesus provide the …

Review of A Piety above the Common Standard, by Tony Chute

Anthony L. Chute, A Piety above the Common Standard: Jesse Mercer and Evangelistic Calvinism. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2004, first paperback ed., 2005. 238pp. $25.00, paper. The concerns of the day could be summarized as follows: disputes over Calvinism, with anti-Calvinists pursuing a divisively vocal course; earnest desire for “a revival that will last …