Wednesday Book Reviews for 6-6-18
Today’s Books and resources are from Todd Friel. He is the Host of Wretched TV and Radio. These books are practical and important as we think about the Gospel and our proclamation of the Gospel.
Jesus Unmasked: The Truth Will Shock You
Jesus Unmasked reveals over thirty Old Testament stories that point to Jesus Christ Himself. What were once shadowy pictures of redemption in the Old Testament became a vivid reality when Jesus Christ was born.
Friel presents Jesus as the scarlet thread weaving the Old and New Testaments together beautifully bringing the gospel to life for unbelievers, new believers, and mature believers pursuing spiritual growth. Hear Jesus tell us who He is in the gospels. See Him in the historical events and prophecies of our ancient biblical history. Only God could write one story through dozens of authors over thousands of years about one man without a single contradiction. Continue reading
Have you asked yourself, “How many so-called- Christian denominations there are in America?” Then add to that what other non-Christian religions there are. Someone has said that there are over two thousand Christian denominations in America. Wow! That’s a lot. I mean, there’s the Lutherans, the Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, the Methodists, then, of course, there’s the Baptists, I mean the BAPTISTS, look out for those “hell-fire and brimstone” Baptists! And the list goes on and on. But I would like to suggest that in reality, there are only two religions. 
Is the saving love of God unconditional or conditional? As we saw in my 
It is often said, that God’s love is unconditional. And there is a real sense in which God’s unconditional love is true. God does in His general, unconditional love, love all mankind. This can be seen in a number of ways but is clearly illustrated in Matthew 5:43-46.
1 John 4:7-8 (ESV) 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
True Christian’s Love to the Unseen Christ
When we speak of Biblical coherence we mean Biblical synthesis or what is called the synthetic principle. What this means is that the Bible is to be understood as a library of 66 books that collected together, become one book. It also means that the “Scripture is to be its own interpreter” and as such the “Scripture is to be compared with Scripture in order to discover its accurate and full meaning.”