Book reviews

Due to a few requests, mainly Stevo, in a short while, I will begin posting some book reviews on here. The books that I will be recapping are:

The Cross He Bore: by Frederick Leahy
The Christian Life: by Sinclair Ferguson
What the Bible Teaches about Marriage: by Anthony
Selvaggio
The Big Picture for Small Churches: John Benton
Living in the Grip of Relentless Grace: by Iain Duguid
"Let's Study" Galatians
"Let's Study" Revelation: Both by Derek Thomas
The Prophets Speak of Him: by Anthony Selvaggio
Overcoming the World: by Joel Beeke
Christ and the Covenants: by O. Palmer Robertson

Leahy and Spurgeon on the Cross

“Here in the cross is where every enemy of joy is overcome: divine wrath, as he becomes a curse for us; real guilt, as he becomes forgiveness for us; lawbreaking, as he becomes righteousness for us; estrangement from God, as he becomes reconciliation for us; slavery to Satan, as he becomes redemption for us; bondage to sin, as he becomes liberation for us; pangs of conscience, as we becomes cleansing for us; death, as he becomes the resurrection for us; hell, as he becomes eternal life for us.” (Spurgeon)


"There is an error to avoid, the danger of seeing the loving obedience of Christ as primarily and exclusively for the sake of man, when, in fact, it was primarily out of love for God that he accepted the cross (Heb. 10:7). Dr. Geerhardus Vos stresses that our Lord's Messiahship was "absolutely God-centered." "Jesus," says Vos, "accepted the cross out of a motive of love for God even more than, and before He accepted it because of His love for man...In dying, as in all else He did, He hallowed God's name." This is a truth too often overlooked, and it in no way detracts from the wonder that Christ loves each one of his people with all of his love." (Leahy)