Martin Wickens
Speaking the Truth in Love
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Book Review – The Ten Commandments of Dating
“The Ten Commandments of Dating” Outside of marriage, one of the most important and impactful areas of a person’s life is who they marry. Who they marry is ultimately decided by who they date. So, good principles about dating are vital. I would highly recommend this book to parents, pastors, youth leaders, young adults (I’m…
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Book Review – “Character Carved in Stone”
Growing up I had the privilege of going to a small Christian school that used the ACE curriculum. Every PACE highlighted a character trait. My pastor also highlighted the importance, from a Biblical perspective, of good character. With that background, I was excited to read Pat William’s book, Character Carved in Stone. The book expounds…
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Spurgeon’s Sorrows – a Book Review
Over 140 years ago Pastor Charles Spurgeon, a renowned preacher and theologian, commented often on depression. He did so in surprisingly open ways, for his time, and with insight that still helps many today. Consider a few of his well-known statements: “Furthermore, remember that even after you are secure in Christ, and accepted before God,…
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National Repentance – Quotes from Charles Spurgeon
Every now and then I’ll find in my personal library a book which I cannot remember buying, receiving, or borrowing. So, if the book I’m about to mention is borrowed and actually belongs to you, let me know. 😉 The book is titled, “Only a Prayer Meeting – Studies on Prayer Meetings and Prayer Meeting…
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Book Review: Does God Desire All to Be Saved – #3
Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Piper’s Aim In the 2nd chapter of Piper’s booklet, he sets out to give examples of God’s two wills. His goal is to prove that God has one will that desires all to be saved, but a second will that acts to only save some. We must keep…
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Book Review: Does God Desire All to Be Saved – #2
Part 1 – Introduction In the first chapter of this booklet John Piper explains his aim for the publication, “My aim in this short book is to show from Scripture that the simultaneous existence of God’s will for all people to be saved and his will to choose some people for salvation unconditionally before creation…
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Book Review: “Does God Desire All to be Saved?” #1
Recently, I wrote an extensive and somewhat meandering review of Roger Olson’s book, “against Calvinism”. In the interest of fairness, I am going to write a review of a booklet by John Piper titled, “Does God Desire all to be Saved”. While it is significantly shorter, it deals with a single subject and so has…
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Book Review: “Understanding and Loving a Person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.”
In 1980 the term PTSD was coined. Its symptoms had long been known, and different generations had identified it with different words. Previous generations referred to it as gross stress reaction, battle fatigue, and shell shock. I was born the same year as the acronym for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and I’ve grown up in a…
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Book Review – “Against Calvinism” – Part 4
In this series of articles reviewing Roger Olson’s book, Against Calvinism, we have considered his introduction to the subject, and the first 3 letters of TULIP, the acrostic that many use to summarise Calvinism’s main tenats. To read those articles you can follow these links: Part 1 – Introduction and Calvinism’s Resurgence Part 2 –…
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Book Review – “Against Calvinism” – Part 2
Read Part 1 here – Book Review – “Against Calvinism” – Part 1 In chapter 3 of Olson’s book he works his way through the TULIP, the acrostic which summarizes the main tenats of Calvinism. In this post, I want to share a few quotes from the book and offer a few thoughts in connection…