Archive for the 'BookBags' Category

Tim Keller’s The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

…and how excited are people about this book?
My friend, WTS student Art Boulet, actually stood outside the doors of Westminster Bookstore in freezing rain to be the first customer to get a copy. After making sure he understood that this was not an eighth Harry Potter book, we gladly sold Art four copies. He says [...]

Review - Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Author: Brian S. Rosner
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN: 9780802833747
214 pages, paperback.
Several years ago I lived near a medium-sized city that was scheduled to get a new shopping mall. The area already had two or three of the typical 1980s shoe box malls, but the new one was supposed to be as high above them as they were over [...]

Interview with Charles Drew, Author of A Journey Worth Taking

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Sorry for the dearth of blogging lately. We are in the process of moving. If you’ve ever moved, I need say no more. Except that I want to use the word “dearth” as much as possible today.
I recently conducted an exclusive interview with author Charles D. Drew. His book A Journey Worth Taking: Finding Your [...]

Resurrection and Redemption Digest Blog

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

My friend and former WTS classmate Mike Vendsel is in the middle of a multi-part blog digest of Dr. Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.’s Resurrection and Redemption. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Purchase Resurrection and Redemption: A Study in Paul’s Soteriology

Interview with Author Stephen Nichols

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

I recently had the opportunity (on behalf of Westminster Bookstore) to talk with author Stephen Nichols about church history, writing, teaching, and his early life of crime. His latest book, The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World, earned high praise from Sinclair Ferguson and Michael Horton. When he is not filling [...]

Interview with Susan Wise Bauer

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Author, literary blogger, and friend Mindy Withrow has posted an exclusive interview with Susan Wise Bauer in conjunction with the imminent release of her much-anticipated book The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome. My readers will remember Ms. Bauer from her Books & Culture review of John [...]

Praying at Burger King

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Author: Richard J. Mouw
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN: 0802840469
134 pages, paperback
A number of years ago I was at a chain restaurant with my pastor and fellow elders. Our special guest for the evening was the pastor’s uncle, who had been a lifelong Southern Baptist evangelist. After we placed our orders the uncle asked us if we minded if [...]

Amillennialism Resources

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Unless you are fasting from the theological web for Lent (and if you are, good for you!), you are probably well aware of the recent kerfluffle (one of my favorite Carl Trueman words) over recent statements by John MacArthur. Seems at a recent conference MacArthur said that premillennialism is the only consistent position for a [...]

Creative Bible Lessons in Genesis

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Author: Hoon Kim
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310270936
144 pages, paperback
Westminster Theological Seminary graduate Hoon Kim set out to produce what many of our customers at wtsbooks.com have been asking for for some time: a youth Bible study that is christocentric in approach with heart change as its goal. While this resource has much to recommend it over others [...]

Herman Ridderbos 1909-2007

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Just heard that Herman Ridderbos, one of the foremost developers of the redemptive-historical approach to biblical theology, a hallmark of Westminster Theological Seminary, died last week.

 Click here for Ridderbos’s currently available works.