This month: 183 - The Place of Obedience

Exploring the Heart of Restoration

I don’t usually start off book reviews like this but I want to encourage you to read Michael Heiser’s “The Unseen Realm.” My typical approach to a review is to tell you what I think about it and then leave you plenty of room to decide if it is something you should or shouldn’t read. If a book is honestly not worth the time to read it I will tell…[Read more]

I recently came across the most helpful resources on the historical backgrounds to the Gospels that I have ever seen. It is called Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study by Darrell Bock. This book works through the synoptics and John and pulls just about any relevant extra-biblical text in full quotation to help you see what other…[Read more]

John Barry was a chief editor at Logos/Faithlife Bible software. He ended his stint with Faithlife in order to work with the poor all over the world and create sustainable business models to help get people out of poverty. He started a non-profit called Jesus’ Economy and has now combined his ministry with his writing in filling a gap with some p…[Read more]

There is really no way to feel qualified to even begin. How do you accurately and fairly review something so special, so seminal and so central to someone’s life as a book about their disabled daughter? This is holy ground and it that to be respected.

My first exposure to Megan’s Secrets was Mike Cope’s series of lessons that he did at the Peppe…[Read more]

Tim Keller published another book on another much needed topic for Christians – prayer. His book Prayer: Experiencing Intimacy With God bears all the marks of typical Keller…thorough, Reformed and practical. I mean all three in the best possible way.

Thorough
Sometimes thorough can be a problem where someone spends way too much time on a par…[Read more]

Here is a link to a review of Les’ book at Wineskins – http://wineskins.mystagingwebsite.com/2018/12/19/book-review-still-wrestling-by-les-ferguson-jr/

What books do you recommend reading on racial reconciliation and women’s roles? I will share mine in the comments later.

I cannot think of more sensitive conversations than the ones we are having and need to have on race and gender in our churches. I hope and pray this forum is a place for those conversations. Let us speak with one another with both grace and truth. Let us try to learn from those we disagree with. Let us engage the scriptures together on how we can…[Read more]

Welcome to the Wineskins Book Review Forum. Thank you for stopping by. We hope your time here is productive and beneficial to you and your walk with Christ. This is a place to read and post reviews. You are more than welcome to post reviews you have written elsewhere as long as the content is yours. You are also welcome to post your book reviews…[Read more]

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I have really been enjoying teaching through Colossians the last few Sunday mornings in my adult Bible class. Paul’s letter is so relevant for us today in helping us understand how the things we believe as Christians are different from the belief systems of the world. There is an analogy Paul uses in Colossians 3 about putting off the old way a…[Read more]

A few weeks ago a friend recommended I read Douglas Campbell’s work on Paul. Since that time I have worked my way through his book “Paul – An Apostle’s Journey” and want to share some insights on the book, Campbell’s views, and the positives and negatives of the book as a whole.

The first thing to note is that the book is relatively short, 205…[Read more]

If you grew up in Churches of Christ, this is the book on the Holy Spirit for you. In “Poured Out: The Spirit of God Empowering the Mission of God” Leonard Allen does what he does best – church history combined with biblical theology. When you add in his own personal story in Churches of Christ and his developing understanding of the Holy Spiri…[Read more]