What follows is the Introduction to my new book When Prayer Is a Struggle: A Practical Guide for Overcoming Obstacles in Prayer (P&R, 2021), with the foreword by Colin S. Smith. If you’ve benefited from my writing in the past, consider pre-ordering a copy of the book that comes out August 25, 2021. That will […]
Books & Reviews
A Brief Review of Hebrews (EBTC) by Dr. Tom Schreiner
As soon as I heard about Dr. Tom Schreiner’s Hebrews volume in the new Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary (EBTC) series from Lexham Academic, I was interested. I’ve come to appreciate the clarity, care, and insight with which Schreiner writes (I’ve been slowly working through his biblical theology The King in His Beauty). I also love […]
Book Summary: Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome by R. Kent Hughes
In his early life as a pastor, Kent Hughes faced a personal crisis. He seemed to be doing everything right in ministry, but his church wasn’t growing—at least not compared to the church across town. This lack of ‘success’ ate at him and made his efforts seem worthless. What else do I need to do […]
A Brief Review of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
Why is it totally normal for someone to say “I’m a man trapped in a woman’s body” today, but a generation ago everyone would know it’s crazy? Dr. Carl Trueman wrote The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution to answer. Trueman’s book is historical […]
40 Questions about Biblical Theology
Let’s face it, reading the Bible isn’t easy. That’s not a knock at the doctrine of the perspicuity of the Scripture (which says that the central message of the Bible is clear), that’s an acknowledgement that we are separated from the writers of Scripture by thousands of years, culture, language, and spiritual understanding. We need […]
