Christian Focus Publications is giving away two copies of The Trials of Theology this week on the Christian Focus Booknotes blog.  Details for the giveaway can be found here:  LINK.

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I’m very curious to see how Scott unpacks the problem of young adults leaving the church and it would make for an interesting review to contrast his reasoning for this problem against other recent books such as Scott Brown’s A Weed in the Church and Ken Ham’s Already Compromised. Maybe that’s the angle I should [...]

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Yesterday a large package showed up from InterVarsity Press.  It was big, it was heavy and I had no idea what it was.  Imagine my delight when I opened it to find Christian Apologetics:  A Comprehensive Case for the Biblical Faith by Douglas Groothuis.  This is a book I’ve been looking forward to reading ever [...]

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One of the books I’ve been reading recently is Reformation:  Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Carl R. Trueman (Christian Focus, 2011).  In this book Dr. Trueman examines the origins of contemporary Reformed theology in the Reformation world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  This is the first of his books I’ve read and it has [...]

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Rachel Held Evans featured a post today on her blog, where Jana Riess answers questions about her conversation to Mormonism and other questions related to Mormonism that I believe were asked by some of Rachel’s regular blog readers.  The post is available here:  LINK.  It was interesting to get an insider’s perspective to some common [...]

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Yesterday I was excited to receive another new review book from the Amazon Vine review program.  This time it was Am I Really a Christian? by Mike McKinley (Crossway, 2011).  Mike’s goal in this book is to convince you that you may not be a Christian.  After all the apostle Paul encourages us with the [...]

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Calling all of my publicist / publishing friends out there in cyberspace.  I still have two ad sponsorship opportunities open for August through Beacon Ad Network. If you act now, I’ll even through in a sponsored post on Bible Geek Gone Wild announcing my newest sponsors.  Visit my Beacon Ad Network page to learn more.

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In addition to receiving review books from publishers, I have also received a number of books and other items for review from the Amazon Vine review program. Just today, I received a review copy of King Solomon:  The Temptation of Money, Sex, and Power by Philip Graham Ryken (Crossway, 2011). This new book looks at [...]

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I was excited to see that Vision Forum is offering the complete Family Bible Study Series by Kevin Swanson for 31% off.  My family and I use this series for our dinner time devotions and have been greatly blessed by them.  Each chapter includes: Convenient theme categorizations, as well as contextualization of the passage A [...]

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I received notice today from Kregel Publications that their Fall 2011 catalogs are available online.  Their regular catalog can be found here:  LINK and their children’s catalog can be found here:  LINK.  Below are some of the titles that intrigued me.

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