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A Dutch Immigrant Family’s Tale of Faith in Trying Times

Harry Kleyn, My Father’s Journey (published by the author, 2022).  Softcover, 411 pages. A few years ago I was asked […]

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23 August 2022

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A Larger Helping of Schilder

The Klaas Schilder Reader: The Essential Theological Writings, eds. George Harinck, Marinus DeJong and Richard Mouw (Bellingham: Lexham Academic, 2022).  […]

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22 August 2022

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Can Christian Couples Use IVF?

Conceived by Science: Thinking Carefully and Compassionately About Infertility and IVF, Stephanie Gray Connors.  Florida: Wongeese Publishing, 2021.  Paperback, 147 […]

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27 June 2022

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Understand God’s Holiness Better and Trust Him More

Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him, Jackie Hill Perry.  Nashville: B & H Publishing, 2021.  Softcover, […]

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12 October 2021

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A Reformed Approach to Eschatology

A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times, Kim Riddlebarger, Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.  Paperback, 271 pages.  Books and other […]

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11 October 2021

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Does the Bible Contradict Itself?

Keeping Faith in an Age of Reason: Refuting Alleged Bible Contradictions, Jason Lisle.  Green Forest: Master Books, 2017.  Softcover, 254 […]

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23 September 2021

Bible contradictions Jason Lisle

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Surviving Religion 101

From time to time I search online for “ex-Can RC.” I’m curious as to why people would leave the Canadian […]

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18 August 2021

ex-CanRC Michael J. Kruger

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The Pastor as Counselor

You can read my review of David Powlison’s latest (posthumously published) book here at Reformed Perspective. It’s helpful for more […]

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21 July 2021

David Powlison

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Men and Women in the Church

You can read my review of Kevin DeYoung’s latest book over here at Reformed Perspective.

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22 June 2021

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Carl Trueman on today’s sexual madness

My review of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self is now online at Reformed Perspective.

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5 June 2021

Carl Trueman LGBTQ+

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A Herald of Freedom in Christ

Man of the First Hour: A Son’s Story: Jules Taco Van Popta, George van Popta.  Carman: Reformed Perspective Press, 2021.  […]

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19 May 2021

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An Admiring Look at the Greatest Popularizer of Reformed Theology

R.C. Sproul: A Life, Stephen J. Nichols.  Wheaton: Crossway, 2021.  Hardcover, 371 pages. Back in the early 90s, there was […]

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3 May 2021

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Resurrecting Reading

Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, Leland Ryken and Glenda […]

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26 April 2021

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Rod Dreher – Orthodox and Not

Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, Rod Dreher.  New York: Sentinel, 2020.  Hardcover, 240 pages. Rod Dreher’s […]

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20 April 2021

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Rev. Wes Bredenhof (B.A., M.Div., Th.D.) is pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Launceston, Tasmania. Read More
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Books by Wes Bredenhof

Get to Know the Holy Spirit

Published 2024

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Aiming to Please

Published 2020

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Published 2019

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