Book Review: Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling to Men Derek Kuiper The Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling to Men, by Richard D. Phillips. Sanford, FL: Reformation Trust Publishing. Pp. xi + 220. $12.53 (softcover). What is your mandate as a man? Is it to spend endless amounts of time on your electronic devices? Is it […]
Erik Raymond. Chasing Contentment: Trusting God in a Discontented Age. Crossway, 2017. 166 pp. $14.99, cloth Contentment is a virtue that is much easier to discuss than to practice. Whether in the back of church or on social media, the definitions roll easily off our tongues. “It is being satisfied with everything that God […]
We are living in an age of spectacles. No, I’m not referring to the fact that people have started to wear eyeglasses for purely fashion purposes. I’m talking about things like YouTube celebrities, political scandals, Super Bowl ads, social media influencers, viral news stories, sports highlights, virtual reality video games, pornography, and the latest […]
When I was 13, my mom gave me the book Lies Young Women Believe. I didn’t read it right away, but when I did, I looked up the website listed inside: www.liesyoungwomenbelieve.com. I signed up for the emails and was presented with another website: www.girldefined.com. I signed up for their emails too. After a while […]
Rankin Wilbourne. Union with Christ: The Way to Know and Enjoy God. Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2016. 370 pp. $19.99, hardcover What does the phrase “union with Christ” mean to you? For many of us, the phrase may not be something completely new, but these are not words that we have spent much time […]
Gresh, Dannah. And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity. Moody Publishers, 2004. I read. A lot. And after hours upon hours of reading a book, I finish it and pick up the next one in the series. That’s what you’re supposed to do, right? But after I complete a seven-book series in […]
Torn Asunder: Children, the Myth of the Good Divorce, and the Recovery of Origins, edited by Margaret Harper McCarthy, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2017 The reason you will remain married to your spouse is that you love God and are thankful to him for his gracious salvation of you. You wish to show this […]
Turkle, Sherry. (2015). Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. New York, NY: Penguin Press. Look up from this page right now and observe your current surroundings. If there are people around, spot what they are doing. Are they talking to one another? Or are they looking down at their phones, completely […]
“Grace and Assurance: The Message of the Canons of Dordt” Book Review Jake Dykstra Nearly 400 years separates us from the monumental event of the Synod of Dordt. It was there that our Reformed fathers took an unwavering stance on the scriptural principles that we know today as total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible […]
Higher education is a mess right now. We are watching colleges and universities strangle themselves as they discover what education looks like when the oxygen of objective truth is pulled out of the room. Because the basis for such action is found in the philosophies and theories of some of their own radical professors, they […]