Posts in category Book Reviews

I’ve always had great admiration for Elisabeth Elliot. To this day, I’m drawn to her writings, her faith, her no-nonsense approach to life. I was …

Pioneer Missions: Meet the Challenges, Share the Blessings by Forrest McPhail, 2015. This recent book by GFA missionary, Forrest McPhail, sets out broad biblical foundations …

Chesterton, G. K. The Everlasting Man. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2011. This is a witty apologetic that advocates original monotheism, as opposed to an evolutionary account …

One of the greatest joys of my nascent pastoral ministry came around the holiday season. Our youth staff had been hammering, fruitlessly it seemed, for …

Jones, Paul S. What is Worship Music? Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2010. At only 48 pages long and a price of only $4, this book is …

Brian Collins reviews Ed Welch’s Blame It on the Brain? and Alan Jacobs’ Original Sin: A Cultural History

Forster, Greg. The Contested Public Square: The Crisis of Christianity and Politics. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2008. Greg Forster’s The Contested Public Square is a readable, …

Brian Collins reviews The Life and Letters of John Albert Broadus and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009.

Brian Collins reviews two biographies of James Boyce, a theological educator who founded a Baptist seminary in the most adverse of circumstances.

Brian Collins reviews two important books that critique the theory of evolution. From the scientific problems to the philosophical, close analysis of evolution reveals significant intellectual problems. Creationism is the biblical view.