News & Notes

If you have at all noticed that posting around here has been done in spurts and starts since last summer, then you may have clued in that something's a bit off...and you'd be right. In the summer of 2009 I (Managing Editor Mark Tubbs) began to experience a recurrence of a strain of pneumonitis that had bothered me 18 months before. Only this time, it came back with a vengeance. Tomorrow I go in for lung surgery to determine whether this is "only" some sort of pneumonia or whether it's something more serious.

We here at DR don't tend to tip our hands as to the books we are reading before we post reviews of them, but I can't help but crow about the 2008 Oxford University Press release Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I by the Rev. Dr. Stephen Hampton, Dean of Peterhouse in Cambridge.

Pastor Mark Kelly at Grace Dependent only started blogging in January of this year, but his informative, prolific blog has already made a splash in the Christian blogosphere. Kelly usually focuses on summary book reviews, but recently began to blog through Bob Kellemen's Soul Physicians on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Doc K is one of DR's reliable, discerning reviewers, so we are happy to point you to a blog that is giving Doc's book some much-deserved exposure.

Colin Adams has provided an excellent list of 100 Recommended Books. The suggestions run from books to unbelievers, to books for new believers to classics and apologetics and just about everything else. Give it a look!

It has been a little while since we've seen a new (and original) book from John MacArthur. There has been a recent volume edited by him and some reprints of his older material, but it has been some time since we've seen a major, new work. The wait ends in July of this year with the release of The Jesus You Can't Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ.

The latest book by R.C. Sproul is now available from Reformation Trust. The Prayer of the Lord looks to the Lord's Prayer as a model prayer for all Christians. Sproul finds in this prayer principles that can aid all Christians as they seek to join our Lord in constant, heart-felt prayer.