Book Recommendation: Name Above All Names

Jesus Christ has been given the name above all names, the highest seat of honor, the right to reign and rule. Yet the busyness of our lives and the diversions of this world often distract us from knowing the most important person we could ever know. Perhaps we need some help to see Jesus afresh.

Book Recommendation: Isaiah By the Day: A New Devotional Translation

As a man who loves the word of God, Alec Motyer presents these daily devotionals from Isaiah. For him, daily devotion is not a mere habit but a real desire to be transformed by the challenging word of Isaiah.

Book Recommendation: A Little Book for New Theologians

Whenever we read, think, hear or say anything about God, we are doing theology. Yet theology isn't just a matter of what we think. It affects who we are.

Book Recommendation: Who Am I?

Best-selling author Jerry Bridges asks perhaps the most fundamental question of existence: “Who am I?”

Book Recommendation: New City Catechism

Question 1: What is the chief end of man?
Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

Question 1: What is your only comfort in life and death?
Answer: That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.

Book Recommendation: The Hole in Our Holiness

The hole in our holiness is that we don't seem to care much about holiness. Or, at the very least, we don't understand it.

Book Recommendation: Prayer: A Biblical Perspective

We shall do well to watch our habits of prayer with a holy watchfulness. Here is the pulse of our Christianity. Here is the true test of our state before God.

Book Recommendation: Lament for a Son

Nicholas Wolterstorff, a well-known Christian philosopher, lost his 25-year-old son to a mountain climbing accident. His reflections in the wake of that tragedy are at times deeply personal, but always he expresses a prayerful anguish with which most bereaved parents will identify.

Book Recommendation: The Deep Things of God

Book review excerpt courtesy of Justin Taylor

It’s been quite a while since I’ve been this excited about a theology book, or a book of applied theology. But I hope that tons of folks read Fred Sanders’s new book, The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything. It is an incredibly important book.

Book Recommendation: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Bonhoeffer is the subject of an extensive new biography by Eric Metaxas who is probably best-known for his biography of William Wilberforce...which was the official biography that accompanied the 2006 film by the same name. Interestingly, this is one of two lengthy biographies of Bonhoeffer to be published this year (the other, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance by Ferdinand Schlingensiepen is due to hit store shelves in a couple of weeks). Metaxas sets the bar high with his Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. While it may not be one of the top three or four biographies you will ever read, it is nevertheless a very solid effort and with much to commend it. It’s entirely possible that if I went ahead and ranked my ten favorite biographies this would be somewhere on that list.