Category Archives: Recommended Books

Book recommendation: “The Giant Killer” by A.L.O.E.

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

I recently finished reading an intriguing story by ALOE (A Lady Of England) to my children entitled, The Giant Killer (1856). This allegorical tale (told in a fashion similar to Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress) is about a noble knight named Fides … Continue reading →

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The Tragedy of American Compassion

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

The Tragedy of American Compassion – Marvin Olasky Reviewed by Stuart Brogden, 30 Oct 2011 Tragedy and Compassion – two words that we don’t normally associate together. How could compassion be tragic? While we likely have different levels of bad … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: “Dangers of the Invitation System” by Jim Ehrhard

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

I recently finished this short  booklet, Dangers of the Invitation System, that I simply can’t recommend enough. In about 30 pages, Jim Ehrhard reveals the utter folly of the modern evangelical practice of the altar call. If you know someone … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: “The White Dove” by Christoph Von Schmid

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

I recently read this wonderful story to my kids. The White Dove is another great book from Christoph Von Schmid, the author of The Basket of Flowers.  And although I believe Von Scmid’s The Basket of Flowers was better than … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: “Deceived on Purpose” by Warren Smith.

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

I recently finished the book Deceived on Purpose by Warren Smith. Smith, a former New Ager turned Christian, wrote this heavily footnoted book after reading Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life and seeing the many New Age parallels throughout Rick Warren’s … Continue reading →

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TWTG For Free!

Posted on October 4, 2011 by

Awhile back I blogged on a favorable book review of Dan Phillips’ “The World Tilting Gospel” by Matt Shultz. As an update Dan Phillips has a post up today at Pyro pointing readers to the tantalizing fact that for a … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom.

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

I recently finished Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place (the audiobook version) and was left shaken. From the depths of human depravity to the heights of human compassion, the love of God and the gospel of Christ permeates our fallen … Continue reading →

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Cults, Catholics, and Charismatics

Posted on August 19, 2011 by

What do these three seemingly disparate movements have in common?  An utter disregard for the normative authority of the 66 books of the Holy Bible in favor of additional witnesses.  “Sola Scriptura?  We don’t neeed no stinkin’ Sola Scriptura!  After … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful Picture of the Early Church

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

There is so much error in the record of Christian history, due to various factors – not the least of which is the temporal supremacy of the Roman Catholic “Church” for many years. Yet truth will not be wiped off the … Continue reading →

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Defending, Contending – what?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

I recently started reading K. Scott Oliphant’s new book, The Battle Belongs to the Lord. Chapter 2 is an examination of the book of Jude and the author does an excellent job of explaining what we (those who are redeemed … Continue reading →

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The Monstrosity of a Faith that is Alone

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

I am currently reading John Murray’s Redemption Accomplished and Applied published in 1955 by Eerdmans Publishing Company. This little book (180 pages) is an amazing dissertation on the meaning of the atonement, how it was accomplished, and how it is … Continue reading →

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On Christian Parenting

Posted on May 13, 2011 by

In my previous post entitled “On Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” I briefly outlined the contours of this insidious and pervasive spiritual parasite which masquerades as piety, but which is in fact a form of soul-damning false religion. Much to our collective shame many … Continue reading →

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Covenantal Dichotomism

Posted on March 19, 2011 by

Late last year I stumbled across a Baptist Reformed blog discussion about a new book that was aimed at refuting infant baptism. With no malice towards those who practice infant baptism, the author of the book explained his aim as … Continue reading →

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“Inner Promptings”

Posted on February 17, 2011 by

I’ve recently read a most excellent book about how to determine the will of God, titled Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the … Continue reading →

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Changed by God

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Born in Connecticut in 1718, he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine.  Many people know of his work among the … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: “Radical” by David Platt.

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

When I picked up this book to read it I told myself that no matter how good any part of it was, I would not post any portion of it as a quote on DefCon (because time is so little … Continue reading →

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Book recommendation: “Terror at Beslan” by John Giduck.

Posted on June 29, 2010 by

“For a single religion to spawn so much hatred, so much inhuman capacity to commit violence against the innocent–even if those innocent are the citizens of a perceived enemy nation or culture–there must must be a cause. That cause cannot … Continue reading →

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Words from the Fire

Posted on May 18, 2010 by

In many ways the Law of God has lost its place in the church, often being relegated to the dustbin of history since the church age is “under grace and not law“.  And while it’s indisputably true that the new covenant … Continue reading →

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Homosexuals and Hypocrites

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

Jeremiah, a man who claims to be a homosexual Christian, left a comment on my blog making his case for why homosexuality is not a sin. I’ve recently learned quite a bit from reading Same Sex Controversy by James White … Continue reading →

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Book review: “The Marketing of Evil” by David Kupelian.

Posted on November 9, 2009 by

I just completed a page-turner that I highly recommend to the readers of DefCon. David Kupelian’s provocative missive The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, And Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom, takes you behind the scenes of how … Continue reading →

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Book review: “Why Johnny Can’t Preach” by T. David Gordon.

Posted on October 8, 2009 by

I just completed the book Why Johnny Can’t Preach by T. David Gordon. It is a well thought-out thesis addressing the source of the problem with the ineffective preaching in most Christian churches in the West. Gordon highlights some of … Continue reading →

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Book review: “The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus” by John Cross.

Posted on October 1, 2009 by

From the author of The Lamb comes The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus. This book explains the gospel of Jesus Christ in the most detailed yet simple way that I have ever read. This easy-to-read book is full of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “The Basket of Flowers” by Christoph von Schmid.

Posted on June 26, 2009 by

What can I say about this book other than I absolutely loved it. This was the very first book published in the Lamplighter series and was the Lamplighter series “book of the year” in 1996. This continues to be my … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “The Robber’s Cave” by Charlotte Maria Tucker.

Posted on April 19, 2009 by

Yet another fine book from the Lamplighter Series of Rare Books. Written in 1887 by Charlotte Maria Tucker under the alias of A.L.O.E. (A Lady of England), The Robber’s Cave is a good read for all ages. It is suspenseful, … Continue reading →

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Book review: Evangelism in the New Testament: A Plea for Biblically Relevant Evangelism by Jon Speed

Posted on April 6, 2009 by

This book, short and sweet at only about 40 pages, makes an irrefutable case that the vast majority of evangelism that took place in the New Testament was among strangers. This goes directly against the idea that friendship evangelism is … Continue reading →

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Book review: “Titus: Comrade of the Cross” by Florence Morse Kingsley.

Posted on April 4, 2009 by

The 1997 Lamplighter book of the year, Titus: Comrade of the Cross, was originally written in 1894 by Florence M. Kingsley. A fictional work weaving the lives of several people living in and around Jerusalem at the time of Jesus’ … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Warnings to the Churches” by John Charles Ryle.

Posted on March 22, 2009 by

I read this book a couple years ago and found it to be an incredible warning to the churches. It also was part of several things God used to draw me out of the lukewarm, mile-wide, inch-deep “churches” that I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Buried in the Snow” by Franz Hoffman.

Posted on February 13, 2009 by

I recently completed the book Buried in the Snow by Franz Hoffman; part of the Lamplighter series of Christian literature. This is the first one of these books that I’ve read and found it to be really good. Written in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “The Lamb” by John R. Cross.

Posted on January 30, 2009 by

I recently completed this wonderful book and was quite impressed with the strong yet simple explanation of the Gospel. Although it’s written for children, it is also good for those who have no clue what the Gospel is because it … Continue reading →

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Book review: “Family Driven Faith” by Voddie Baucham.

Posted on January 7, 2009 by

I just completed the book Family Driven Faith by Voddie Baucham. Don’t let the name fool you; it has absolutely nothing to do with the purpose driven garbage being peddled by the seeker-friendly mega-churches. In fact, I doubt that this … Continue reading →

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