Weekly Recap, July 6

LOSING OUR VIRTUE: WHY THE CHURCH MUST RECOVER ITS MORAL VISION, by David F. Wells

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance By Benjamin Montoya   About the Author David F. Wells is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.   Introduction Despite all the technological…

Interview with Sharon Drickx, author of AM I JUST MY BRAIN?

An Author Interview from Books At a Glance   Have you ever thought about thinking? Why do we think? How do we think? Just what is thinking? Is it just so much chemical activity in our brain, so many firing…

PSALMS, VOLUME 2 (THE NIV APPLICATION COMMENTARY), by W. Dennis Tucker Jr. & Jamie A. Grant

A Book Review from Books at a Glance by Wade W. Weeldreyer.   In 2002, Gerald H. Wilson published Psalms, Volume 1 for the NIV Application Commentary series. He was expected to complete its counterpart; however, his untimely death in…

THE CHARACTER GAP: HOW GOOD ARE WE?, by Christian B. Miller

A Book Review from Books At a Glance By Mark Coppenger   I’m glad I read this book, but I have to admit I’d hoped and thought I’d appreciate it more. I ended up feeling the way I do about…

Check Out our Book Summaries

Check Out our Book Summaries   “Executive summaries” have a long and proven value in the business world, and we at Books at a Glance are excited to bring the same to Christian readers.  In our Book Summaries we “crunch”…

Book Notice: J-CURVE: DYING AND RISING WITH JESUS IN EVERYDAY LIFE, by Paul E. Miller

A Brief Book Notice from Books at a Glance   Do we have the wrong map for the Christian life? The apostle Paul traces out a pattern of dying and rising with Jesus--what Paul Miller calls the "J-Curve"--as the normal…