Book Review Trumpeter of God. A Biography of John Knox. by W. Stanford Reid. 1974. paperback edition by Baker Book House 1982. 353 pp. $8.95. After the Reformed Fellowship began a third of a century ago its periodical for most of the first two decades was called Torch and Trumpet; then, perhaps because the old […]
MARRIAGE TO A DIFFICULT MAN: THE “UNCOMMON UNION” OF JONATHAN AND SARAH EDWARDS Elisabeth D. Dodds This is a delightful historical novel about the life and times of the Puritans in New England. One commentator remarked: “That it is a tempting blend of family guidance book sociological study, psychologically, and devotionally American historical biography.” Many […]
Read Psalm 49:14–20 For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him (Ps. 49:17) Here is an unsettling, yet nonetheless true, fact. Your house, your car, your bank account, your business, your ATV, your furniture, your photo albums . . . yes, even your smartphone: you cannot […]
Read Psalm 49:11–15 Truly no man can ransom another or give to God the price of his life. (Ps. 49:7) How much is your life worth to you? Once, when Julius Caesar was a young man, some pirates captured him and took him to a little island called Pharmacusa. They told him that they were […]
Jehovah’s Mighty Acts, Nathan J. Langerak. Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2019. 100 pages, hardbound. $24.95. His Friends and Servants, Nathan J. Langerak. Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2020. 95 pages, hardbound. $24.95. Both of these volumes are in a new set of Bible stories entitled Tell His Wonders, a title that comes […]
What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, Mike Lindell. Chaska, MN: Lindell Publishing, 2019. Paperback. 325 pages. $19.99. Mike Lindell is quite familiar to us from his My Pillow television infomercials. Behind the inventor of this pillow is a most interesting story which he shares in this book. Dr. Ben Carson writes on […]
The Unknown Hour: Biblical Signs Warnings, Hope and Peace, edited by Gaylord Haan and Jerome Julien. Grand Rapids: Reformed Fellowship, 2020. Paperback. 248 pages. $18.95. It is far easier to fill a bookshelf with hyperbolic predictions and conspiracy theories about the end of the world from ostensibly Christian authors than it is to locate a […]
The Drama of Christianity, An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation by S.L. Morris. Baker Book House. 147 pages. $4.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. There is a reason why many preachers shy away from preaching on Revelation, or otherwise do no more with it than have a few sermons on the letters to the […]
D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES: THE FIRST FORTY YEARS 1899–1939, by Iain H. Murray. Published by the Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Carlisle, PA, USA, 1983. Hardcover, 394pp. $15.95. The former editor of the Banner of Truth publications provides us with a fascinating and illuminating account of the first half of the 80-year life of […]
MARKINGS ON A LONG JOURNEY WRITINGS OF JOHN J. TIMMERMAN; Rodney J . Mulder and John H. Timmerman, Editors; Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan: 300 pages, $9.95. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Timmerman’s excellence in style, his magnanimous spirit that shines through, his knowledgeable comments in the field of literature, and his healthy Christian […]