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GOOD & ANGRY: REDEEMING ANGER, IRRITATION, COMPLAINING, AND BITTERNESS, by David Powlison

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction Section 1: Our Experience 1. Angry People 2. Do You Have a Serious Problem with Anger? 3. How Does That Shoe Fit? Section…

THE BEGINNING AND END OF ALL THINGS: A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF CREATION AND NEW CREATION, by Edward W. Klink III

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction: God’s Creation Project 1 Creation’s Covenant 2 Creation’s Curse 3 Creation’s Confusion 4 Creation’s Country 5 Creation’s Cry 6 Creation’s Christ 7 Creation’s…

BEHOLD MY SERVANT: THE SERVANT SONGS OF ISAIAH, by Brian A. Russell

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction The First Servant Song: Jehovah introduces His messianic Servant (Isa. 42:1-9) The Second Servant Song: The Servant’s calling and work (Isa. 49:1-7) The…

THE CHURCH: AN INTRODUCTION, by Gregg Allison

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: Foundational Issues 1 The Triune God and the Church 2 The Church according to Scripture Part 2: Mere Ecclesiology and More…

THE GOD-BREATHED SCRIPTURE, by Edward J. Young

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   It is natural for Christians to turn to 2 Timothy 3:16 for their doctrine of the Divine authorship of Scripture, but this practice is often met with…

THE ATONEMENT: AN INTRODUCTION, by Jeremy Treat

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction: The Foolishness of the Gospel 1 The Story of Atonement: From a Garden to a Kingdom 2 The Heart of Atonement: The Great…

WONDERFULLY MADE: A PROTESTANT THEOLOGY OF THE BODY, by John W. Kleinig

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Flynn Evans   About the Author John W. Kleinig (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a retired lecturer at Australian Lutheran College, having served there from 1982 to 2009, and is…

CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS (SECOND EDITION): A COMPREHENSIVE CASE FOR BIBLICAL FAITH, by Douglas Groothuis

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Editor’s Note: Doug Groothuis’s Christian Apologetics has seen wide use for some years, and now it is available in its second edition. We offer here a summary…

THE CASE FOR LIFE: EQUIPPING CHRISTIANS TO ENGAGE THE CULTURE, by Scott Klusendorf (Smith)

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Joshua K. Smith    Overview “The Case for Life” is a comprehensive guide designed to equip Christians with the knowledge and skills to effectively engage the culture on the issue…

THE GOSPEL AND THE MIND: RECOVERING AND SHAPING THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, by Bradley G. Green

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction 1 Creation and the Importance of the Past 2 The Centrality of a Telos to All Things 3 Understanding and the Cross 4…

A PRAYING CHURCH: BECOMING A PEOPLE OF HOPE IN A DISCOURAGING WORLD, by Paul E. Miller (West)

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Part 1: Why Pray Together? 1 A Glimpse of a Praying Community 2 Who Killed the Prayer Meeting? 3 The Missing Spirit of Jesus…

IT’S NOT LIKE BEING BLACK: HOW SEXUAL ACTIVISTS HIJACKED THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction: The Key to Pandora’s Box Section One: The Myth of the “Sexual Minority” 1 The Making of the Myth 2 Loving v. Virginia…

TURNING POINTS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM, edited by Heath W. Carter and Laura Rominger Porter

A “Bonus” Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance    Overview of the Book Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism consists of a collection of twelve essays by prominent historians, spotlighting the major “turning points” that shaped…

CULTURAL COUNTERFEITS: CONFRONTING FIVE EMPTY PROMISES OF OUR AGE AND HOW WE WERE MADE FOR SO MUCH MORE, by Jen Oshman

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance  by Kirsten Birkett    About the Author  Jen Oshman is an author, missionary, pastor’s wife, blogger, and podcaster. She served as a missionary with Cadence International in Okinawa, Japan, and with…

THE DOMINANCE OF EVANGELICALISM: THE AGE OF SPURGEON AND MOODY, by David W. Bebbington

A “Bonus” Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance    Overview and Thesis Bebbington, expanding his influential History of Evangelicalism series, profiles the mid- to late-19th-century era—spanning roughly 1850 to 1900—as a period when evangelicalism became a dominant religious…

SPECIAL REVELATION AND SCRIPTURE, by David S. Dockery & Malcolm B. Yarnell III

A Brief Book Summary from Books At a Glance by Steve West   Table of Contents Introduction The Revelation of God The Two Ways of Revelation Natural Theology The Nature of Truth and the Nature of Scripture Jesus Christ and…