PIERRE AND HIS FRIENDS by W. G. Vandehulst. Paideia Press, St. Catharine&, Ontario, Canada. S3.95. Translated from the Dutch by Johannes De Viet. Reviewed by Mrs. Leonard Greenway, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Pierre was a happy boy living with his father, mother, and grandfather in Flanders. It was a sad day when his father bid his […]
Jonah and Noah, Drawings by Friedd Steinmann, text by Dieter Kohl. 63 pages in each. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. $1.95 each. Reviewed by John Vander Ploeg. Translated from the German by Cornelius Lambregtse, these two 63-page booklets by Dieter Kohl (text) and Friedd Stein· mann (drawings) retell the familiar Bible stories about Jonah and […]
CONTOURS OF A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY – AN INTRODUCTION TO BERMAN DOOYEWEERD’S THOUGHT, by L. Kalsbeek. Bernard and Josina Zylstra, editors. Wedge Publishing Foundation!I’oronto, 1975. Price $12.50. Reviewed by Rev. Johan D. Tangelder. Christianity Today (March 12, 1976) calls this “a most important book.” I agree. We have heard so many pros and cons about Dooyeweerd’s […]
The Right Kind of Strong: Surprisingly Simple Benefits of a Spiritual Strong Woman Mary A. Kassian. Nashville: Nelson Books, 2019. Paperback. 224 pages. Publisher’s list price: $17.99 In this book, Mary Kassian explains seven habits that can make a woman spiritually strong. Using 2 Timothy 3:6–7 as the starting point, she sets forth in a […]
Hymns of Devotion: 25 New Hymns for the Church Jonathan Landry Cruse Paperback: 26 pages. Self-published. Available through Reformed Fellowship: $5.00 Two hundred thousand—that’s the number of hymn texts currently catalogued in Calvin University’s Hymnary.org database, from North American sources alone.1 The ever-expanding library of Christian hymnody demands that we ask weighty questions about why […]
AN ALARM TO UNCONVERTED SINNERS, by Joseph Alleine. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1978. 190 pp. $2.45, paper. Alleine (1634–1668), an Oxford graduate, wrote several books but this one is perhaps the most well-known. In this book he analyzes conversion and then speaks to those who are unconverted. THE BIBLE AND THE FUTURE, by […]
Dating Differently: A Guide to Reformed Dating Joshua Engelsma. Grand Rapids: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2019. Paperback. 160 pages. $16.95. rfpa.org Some years ago, in the 1990s, a book appeared entitled I Kissed Dating Goodbye. It was part of the so-called purity movement, which advocated that young people remain sexually pure and virgin […]
It was summer vacation 2010, and I was sitting on a lakeshore in Montana with T. David Gordon’s new book in hand, Why Johnny Can’t Preach. As I opened the book and read the first page of the introduction, I yelled to my father, “Hey, listen to what this Gordon guy says about preaching today: […]
VAN TIL – DEFENDER OF THE FAITH by William White, Jr. 233 pages. Thomas Nelson Publishers; $4.95. Author White says of Dr. Cornelius Van Til: “He has been praised, condemned, quoted, misquoted, represented, misrepresented, understood, misunderstood, loved, hated, explored, ignored. Above the lightning, thunder, wind and hail he has stood his ground coolly and calmly; […]
WHO WILL LEAD US, A Study of the Development of Biblical Offices with Emphasis on the Diaconate, by Leonard J. Coppes. Published by Pilgrim Publishing Company, Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Copyright 1977. 154 pages, paperback. $3.95 Reviewed by Rev. Harry G. Arnold , pastor, First CRC, Lansing, Illinois. According to the foreword, “this book consists ofa […]