Tag: Book Reviews

A Theological Page-turner with Profound Practical Implications.

December 16th, 2025

If the title to this entry is worthy of the title to a Puritan’s sermon, that is not an accident. I do it on purpose. It only makes sense when the subjects of a book are two titans of Puritan England: John Owen and Richard Baxter.

If the notion of a theological page-turner seems to be an oxymoron, you have to, you MUST read Tim Cooper’s “When Christians Disagree”. You must. It is subtitled: “Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter.” When you simply cannot put the book down until you have read it cover to cover, you’ve struck gold. I started this about 10 last evening, quit a little after midnight, and sat to polish it off this morning. True, it is not a huge tome – just around 160 pages. But it is so crisply and engagingly written, you simply don’t want it to end. All of that without even addressing the actual topic and how it is handled yet.

Amazon’s “About the author” carries this: “Tim Cooper (PhD, University of Canterbury) serves as professor of church history at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is the author of John Owen, Richard Baxter and the Formation of Nonconformity and an editor of the Oxford University Press scholarly edition of Baxter’s autobiography.” And I will mention quickly that the forward is written by Michael Haykin.

What Cooper so deftly does in this book, is expound Luther’s Simul Justus et Peccator as displayed in the lives and relationship of its two subjects. Two giants of the Faith; two towering geniuses; two godly and theological powerhouses; two men committed to Christ and his glory – whose personal foibles, personalities and disagreements make us blush to consider how they disliked and ill-treated each other. A study in contrasts if there ever was one.

But the author is not interested in painting these warts-and-all portraits for the sake of morbid or emotionally prurient curiosity. His is not to expose their flaws to the rubber-necking gawker. Rather, he is wanting to use their tragic mutual story, to goad us all on to Christian lives that ponder our own sins and shortcomings, how those impact others – especially in discourse – and spur us on to be more fully clothed with Christ.

These men are both heroes in my theological pantheon. And I, like they, am just as sinful, often blind to myself, and have been the unwitting instrument of unnecessary division among the saints at times. Father, forgive us. Forgive me!

Cooper wisely takes the time to examine the political, religious and social landscape of the England in which they both dwelt, and yet experienced vastly differently. Each with their unique upbringing and familial contexts. Each with strong personalities and rigid convictions. Each used by God. Each sinning against the other – especially (and this is SO VERY timely given our online communications) in how they discoursed in print. What a warning and road map this blessed book is.

There are but 7 short chapters followed by a “Conclusion”, a helpful Chronology, a Glossary and a very helpful section on further reading.

Where this crosses over into an oh-so practical book, is that at the end of each chapter (from chapter 2 on) Cooper includes a section for reflecting on what we’ve just read, and then provides insightful questions to ask ourselves in light of what we’ve witnessed. They are sound and deep questions without being contrived or crossing over into the oft-noted Puritan tendency toward morbid introspection. These are truly helpful and worth the time to consider. Not just alone, but with others.

I would really encourage this book to be used by Pastors with their Elders or leadership groups, as well as other small groups as a 7-8 week study. Reading and thinking about the chapter during the week, and then gathering to talk over the questions with others would be absolutely invaluable.

Of all the books I’ve read this year, this was at once the most engaging and enjoyable, as well as instructive and convicting. I cannot recommend it highly enough. If a book can be tasty – that’s what this book is.

Do your soul a favor – buy it and read it soon. Make it a Christmas gift to yourself, and a New Year’s treat. You won’t be sorry.
The Elect Lady: Brief Book Review and Recommendation

June 12th, 2020

No one disputes the literary mastery of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Much lesser known, but no less deserving of the same stature is the Scottish Pastor, poet and fantastical (and yes, I’ve chosen that word purposely) author – George MacDonald.

Of MacDonald, Christian History Magazine wrote: MacDonald had a profound influence on the circle of 20th-century British writers known as the “Inklings.” J. R. R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories” and C. S. Lewis’s essay “On Stories” are both deeply indebted to MacDonald’s writings on the relationship between faith and imagination (as is the chapter “The Ethics of Elfland” in G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy).

Lewis in fact said he regarded MacDonald as his “master” and said he had never written a book but that somewhere in it he had quoted him. MacDonald’s work “Phantastes” was instrumental in Lewis’ conversion.

While I have read individual sermons, poems and snippets of MCD, it is only recently that I’ve begun to read him somewhat in earnest. And my first foray into reading something in full was in picking up his short novel “The Elect Lady.” And was I in for a surprise. Intrigue. Romance. Utterly charming. And astounding insight into human nature with rich, rich, rich spiritual connections and applications. I’ve made clippings of startling statements I will go back to read and relish; not only for their artful turn of phrase, but for how they crystallized Biblical truths in brilliantly new ways to my eyes.

This is, a novel. It is not a doctrinal book. And it is not milk-sappy Pollyanna Christianized mush. It is first rate story telling that will have you needing to read the next chapter; identifying with each of its characters in some way – or in a few cases, wishing you COULD identify with them; and getting a peek into your own soul.

It’s beauty lay in the way it unfolds Christian living in and through the minds and hearts of its characters. Humble brothers Andrew and Sandy Ingram and their sweet friend Dawtie. Alexa Fordyce and her father the Laird. George Crawford. And all in the confines of the village Potlurg.

Of Alexa we read: “She was religious—if one may be called religious who felt no immediate relation to the source of her being.”

Of her father the Laird: “For the laird, nature could ill replace the human influences that had surrounded the schoolmaster; while enlargement both of means and leisure enabled him to develop by indulgence a passion for a peculiar kind of possession, which, however refined in its objects, was yet but a branch of the worship of Mammon. It suits the enemy just as well, I presume, that a man should give his soul for coins as for money.”

Andrew Ingram: You’ll simply have to read the section where he tells Alexa why he tried to become a writer after the publication of some of his poetry. For any writer, you will contemplate his words long and hard.

Of George Crawford we read: “His father was a banker, an elder of the kirk, well reputed in and beyond his circle. He gave to many charities, and largely to educational schemes. His religion was to hold by the traditions of the elders, and keep himself respectable in the eyes of money-dealers. He went to church regularly, and always asked God’s blessing on his food, as if it were a kind of general sauce. He never prayed God to make him love his neighbour, or help him to be an honest man. He “had worship” every morning, no doubt; but only a Nonentity like his God could care for such prayers as his. George rejected his father’s theology as false in logic, and cruel in character: George knew just enough of God to be guilty of neglecting him.”

And of dear, sweet Dawtie: “Dawtie was now a grown woman, bright, gentle, playful, with loving eyes, and a constant overflow of tenderness upon any creature that could receive it. She had small but decided and regular features, whose prevailing expression was confidence—not in herself, for she was scarce conscious of herself even in the act of denying herself—but in the person upon whom her trusting eyes were turned. She was in the world to help—with no political economy beyond the idea that for help and nothing else did any one exist. To be as the sun and the rain and the wind, as the flowers that lived for her and not for themselves, as the river that flowed, and the heather that bloomed lovely on the bare moor in the autumn, such was her notion of being. That she had to take care of herself was a falsehood that never entered her brain.”

Charming enough for children. Adult enough to challenge your soul and your profession of faith. Sweet enough to bring tears. Profound enough to make you ponder God and Christianity in deeper ways.

This is delicious and delightful reading.

I invite you to take the plunge. Get your first taste of Scotland’s MacDonald here. And you’ll get hooked.
Loving Church Members with Different Politics: A Brief Book Review

April 25th, 2020

At ECF, we just finished preaching through the book of 1 Corinthians. DIvision plagued the Corinthian Church. And right now in the USA, not only is our society deeply polarized, so is the Church. And if there one dividing point which stands above the rest – not only for its own sake but because of what else gets tolled into it – it is politics.

Enter Jonathan Leeman and Andy Naselli’s poignant, powerful and extraordinarily timely little book: “How Can I LOve Church Members with Different Politics?”

It is less than 65 pages and is, in my opinion, an absolute must-read. Especially as we are fast approaching this next Presidential election.

No, it will not tell you how to vote. It will not tell you how to win political arguments. It will not prepare you for debates, except in the sense of its title.

The writing is crisp, minus a ton of jargon, theological or political. Both authors are skilled communicators, and due to their mutual capacity for brevity and clarity – you can digest it in less than an hour. But its after-effects will linger on.

Page after page is filled with sound wisdom, Biblical principles, and ways to live with one another in the Church – with whom we disagree – with the Scriptural requirements of love, compassion, understanding, courtesy, patience and “leeway.” A woefully lost word in our day when anyone who disagrees with us must be instantly demonized, or at least their soul’s state brought into question.

Social justice. Immigration. Tax reform. Socialized medicine. These are all hot topics right now, and ones that I personally have seen divide the Church even locally. Tragically. Shamefully.

Do yourself a favor and pick this gem up. The Kindle version is only 2 bucks and in paperback – $4.99. It is Scripture applied in the most practical and necessary way – right when needed. A timely word for Christ’s Church.

The book is written for you and me just sitting in the pew. It is neither academic nor technical. But let me share with you the closing section which is titled:

How Can Pastors Work for Unity in Politically Divisive Times?

1) Preach expositionally.

2) Continually clarify the distinction between biblical issues and applied-wisdom issues.

3) Continually affirm Christian liberty.

4) Teach forbearance toward the weaker conscience.

5) Point to your church’s statement of faith.

6) Speak more to what Scripture says and less on how to accomplish it.

7) Remember that your authority lies with expounding Scripture, not your politics.

8) Practice church discipline.

9) Teach what Scripture says about justice.

10) Teach the congregation to listen and empathize with those from different backgrounds.

11) Publicly pray for the issues causing grief and fear among different parts of the congregation.

12) Don’t overestimate the breadth of the problem when only a few people are making noise.

13) Model graciousness toward those who disagree with you.

14) Keep a cool head and don’t feel the need to address every issue of the day.

15) Preach the final judgment and sing about heaven often. 16) Preach the gospel every week.

Leeman, Jonathan. How Can I Love Church Members with Different Politics? (Church Questions) . Crossway. Kindle Edition.

Really great stuff. Now buy the book (really a booklet) and read the rest. You won’t be sorry, and you will be better.
A gem from J. C. Ryle

March 1st, 2020

If you do not know J.C. Ryle, he was the slightly older contemporary of Spurgeon. In fact Spurgeon referred to him as “an Evangelical champion. One of the bravest and best of men.” Though Spurgeon was an outspoken critic of the Church of England – he recognized Ryle, Bishop of Liverpool – as a true comrade in arms in the Gospel.

Of all the things I appreciate about Ryle, and they are myriad, 2 stand out: His clarity in preaching, and his emphasis upon the nature of the Christian’s life as warfare against sin. That motif never leaves his vision. Sadly, that frame of mind is all but lost in our generation. I do pray that the Lord would see fit to recover it among us. How we need it to steer off the present American Christian zeitgeist of Christ died to give us comfortable, upper-middle-class lives, free of difficulty.

One of the many volumes to come from Ryle’s pen is his collection of “Hymns for the Church on Earth.” He didn’t write them, he collected them. And one I find particularly sweet is the following. He lists the author merely as “C.M.”

A SOLDIER’S march, from battles won
To new-commencing strife,
A pilgrim’s, restless as the sun:
Such is the Christian life.

2—The hosts of Satan yearn for spoil:
How can our warfare close?
Lonely we tread a foreign soil:
When look we for repose?

3—O let us seek the heavenly home,
Revealed in sacred lore,—
The land whence pilgrims never roam,
Where soldiers fight no more:

4—Where grief and death are sounds unknown,
Where darkness hath no sway,
But from Jehovah’s awful throne
Beams ever-living day:

5—Where friends who meet shall never part,
Where grace achieves its plan,
And God, uniting every heart,
Dwells face to face with man.

J. C. Ryle, Hymns for the Church on Earth (London: William Hunt and Company, 1876), 13–14.
The Creaking on the Stairs – A Book Review and Recommendation

January 28th, 2020

Rosaria Butterfield wrote that The Creaking on the Stairs by Mez McConnell “is the most disturbing book that I have ever read.” She followed that by adding: “I cannot recommend it highly enough.” And I can only echo her comments on both counts. It is as profoundly helpful as it is disturbing. And that is saying a lot.

The book itself is not arranged as an autobiography though it contains much which is auto-biographical from Mez. Most chapters contain enough recollections to let you in on the heart-rending abuse Mez suffered on every level. Physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Yet it is done in such a way as to avoid any hint of prurience, nor crossing over into either bitterness, self-pity or needless gory detail.

It is raw.

But it is also marked by a relentless appeal to sound, Biblical theology terminating always on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Grace colors every page.

Mez knows the hidden truth that only the redeemed can safely revisit the depths of their own and other’s sins if it is done in the light of the Cross. And so his writing can be so unsparing in revealing the hideousness of sin – because an abounding grace prevents that view from eclipsing the light.

This book will not satisfy the bloodlust of the drive-by gawker. He does not dwell on nor traffic in the salacious. But I cannot help but think that it can and will give other abuse victims much-needed commiseration and validation while preventing them from wallowing in self-pity, or other sinful responses to the sins perpetrated upon them.

It is not for the faint of heart.

But it is for the wickedly shattered heart. And it is so Gospel-centered that one cannot help but be staggered by how our sovereign God can bring such unspeakable goodness out of the worst the World, the Flesh and the Devil can do.

If you are an abuse survivor, you need to read this book.

If you love an abuse survivor, you need to read this book.

If you minister to abuse survivors – as all pastors necessarily do – wittingly or unwittingly – you need to read this book.

And if you are or have been an abuser yourself – you need to read this book.

Even if abuse is completely outside the orbit of your personal experience – you need to read this book.

The framework of sound theology so practically, clearly and accessibly laid out cannot help but be a benefit in organizing your own thought process. Gaining this level of theological thinking as applicable to everyday life is truly a gift this book can help impart.

There are no trite answers.

Disturbing and glorious.

Buy it. Read it. Weep. And rejoice.
A 12 Day Christmas Treat

December 21st, 2018

Traditionally, the 12 Days of Christmas or “Twelvetide” spans the time from Christmas Day (Dec. 25) to January 5. It is a time of remembering the incarnation and extending that remembrance so it does not just run by too quickly.

This year, for my birthday in October, my Daughter gave me a book (my favorite gift always) by Sinclair Ferguson. So my favorite gift from one of my favorite authors. A win-win!

And that book is: “Love Came Down at Christmas” – “Daily Readings for Advent.” 12 Daily readings for the season.

And these are really tasty treats for the soul.

Fattening in the best possible way.

It’s not too late to get yours or to give to someone else as a gift.

Each reading is short but rich, rich, rich.

Enjoy!

And Merry Christmas!
Plain Theology for Plain People – A Review

March 7th, 2018

Charles Octavius Boothe was a slave. Born in Alabama, June 13, 1845, he was the “legal property” of one Nathaniel Howard.

Charles Octavius Boothe was a man of God. Coming to faith in Christ in 1865 and baptized in 1866. It seems his social or physical, and his spiritual emancipation coincided. And from that time on, as Walter Strickland writes in the introduction to Boothe’s “Plain Theology”, “Racial uplift was Boothe’s consuming passion.”

Boothe’s efforts toward this end were concentrated above all in education. He was convinced that an educated black community was the best way to contradict the stereotypes with which black Americans were saddled.

Entering the ministry, he both founded and pastored two important churches: “First Colored Baptist Church” in Meridian, Mississippi, and in 1877, “Second Colored Baptist Church” in Montgomery Al. The latter had a name change to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and went on to civil rights fame under the pastorate of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King served there from 1954 – 1960.

Thus while basic education was a necessity, Boothe was burdened that mere education was not enough. The impact in black literacy rates due to his and other’s efforts during this time was profound. In 1860, literacy among southern blacks was a mere 10%. By 1890, that rate had risen to 43%. But as I said above, for Boothe, that was not enough. Literacy alone could not accomplish what needed to be done. To quote Strickland’s Introduction once more: “Boothe promoted literacy so former slaves could read the Bible and break free of the oppressive interpretive practices that made the Christian faith a tool to subjugate blacks during slavery. By reading the Bible for themselves blacks could escape manipulative interpretations that were used to foster docility in slaves and make obedience to their masters synonymous with obedience to God.”

Boothe’s response to that fuller need was: “Plain Theology for Plain People.” A systematic theology for those who had no prior theological platform to build upon. A volume in the plainest English, to summarize a Biblical framework and worldview to lead African Americans to their rightful place at the table of broader Evangelicalism. Simple but not simplistic. Brief, but not scant. Plain but not vulgar. It is a model of concise lucidity.

Boothe felt keenly the reality that in the African American community, those endeavoring to shepherd the souls of others and pastor God’s people were woefully ill-equipped. In most cases prevented from higher education let alone formal theological education, something was needed to meaningfully and soundly fill the gap. And in my estimation, he more than succeeds.

As I read this very slender volume (140 pages in all) the word that kept coming to my mind was that it “breathed.” Systematics can be stifling. Don’t get me wrong, I am a systematics guy. I love systematic theology. I love the symmetry and the depth and the framework it provides. From Calvin’s Institutes (interestingly penned as a digest for the average ex-Romanist in the pew) to Shedd’s Dogmatic theology, Berkhof, Horton, Packer, Grudem, Erickson, Ryrie, Mullins, Boice, Frame and others – I gladly swim in these waters. But often, they can be so academic and philosophical, or so driven by a pre-cast system that they lose their energy. They don’t breathe. They aren’t for the average guy or gal in the pew, but more for specialists. Unlike the Bible. Not so Plain theology for Plain People.

I did not go back to actually test this in fact, but I think if you were to take out all of Boothe’s Scripture quotations and only referenced them – you would reduce the book by 1/3 to ½. This tells you two things: 1. It is Scripture-rich in all of its points. 2. It shows Boothe’s extraordinary facility with the Word in that Plain Theology is a sum of crucial Bible doctrine demonstrated from the Bible itself, threaded together by connecting thoughts from the author. Brilliant.

Gone is the specialized technical jargon of the academic in favor of clarifying simplicity.

There are a couple of glitches. Boothe is clearly committed to Believer’s Baptism. That might give some an itch to scratch. And his portion on church discipline seems a tad unbalanced at first blush. I would love to be able to have him clarify a couple of his statements more. But no one is going to be led astray. And while the readers will not emerge with the delightful ecclesiastical labels we are so fond of in our day for classifying everyone into categories, sub-categories, sub-sub-categories etc., they will be sound their overall Biblical understanding in a systematic way. He won’t say a word about being a Baptist, a Presbyterian, Methodist or Episcopalian. He won’t refer to being “Reformed” or “Calvinistic”, “Arminian”, pre- post- or a-mill, traducian, creationist, tricotomist, in-errantist or supra- sub- or infralapsarian. Nor will he mention being a White Christian versus a Black Christian vs a Hispanic Christian vs. any other ethnically categorized Christian. He will talk only of being Christ’s and belonging to His Church and knowing truth as revealed in the Scriptures.

It BREATHES!

Plain Theology for Plain People would make a stupendous small group study, beginning Believer’s class or individual Bible study for anyone wishing to come away with the basics in a readable, accessible non-technical format.

I really cannot recommend this work highly enough. Reading it was a real treat for my own soul. And at 140 pages, it can be read through very quickly.

Plain theology for Plain People has earned one of those permanent places in my collection – and one I plan to revisit again.

Lexham press is to be commended for bringing this gem of African American theological thought to us anew in our generation. It may be more useful now than ever before.
Walking Through Twilight – A Recommendation

November 23rd, 2017

Qualifier: The following is not as much a review, as it is a plea for you to buy this book, read it, digest it and learn from it.

Walking Through Twilight – a memoir by Douglas Groothuis is not an easy book to read.

The dis-ease of reading it is not due to a Philosopher’s arcane or unique vocabulary, its length, nor the opacity which often attends attempts to describe or explain deep subjects. It is the uncomfortability of someone letting you touch their wounds. While they willingly (even if reluctantly) invite you to see just how raw and cruel the damage done to them has been, they nevertheless let you draw close enough to peer into their pain. And they do so to make suffering less ominous, less fear-inducing and less God-doubting. Nothing short of the glory of the resurrection will truly render it less mysterious.

This is the gift of Walking Through Twilight.

Groothuis is professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary. His and his wife Becky’s twilight, is their journey together with their God and friends as Becky’s particular brand of dementia (primary progressive aphasia) takes its mental, psychological, physical and spiritual toll. And it is brutal.

Page after page captured me as I listened to my brother in Christ lament well. Lamenting the degradation of his brilliant wife’s ability to access her words, wit, wisdom and skill. Lamenting the loss of the life they knew and enjoyed so much together – as it gave way to a life neither of them would ever have wanted or suspected. Grieving out loud without absolute despair, even when no hope in the natural remains, but only the promises of God’s Word. And he taught me well not to use that word only as minimalistic, but as an indicator of the singular hope we have in Christ.

Mind you, while this is a heavy book, it is far from depressing. It is filled with the author’s failures. And it is filled with countless road-signs pointing back to Calvary, as well as to the Blessed Hope to come.

The book serves as a living introduction to real-time suffering – something our current society (and many Christians) believe it is our birth-right to be free of. It reminds us powerfully of the reality of living in a fallen world. A world in which all of nature, including ourselves, will groan together for the relief which will only come when Jesus does.

Besides the running narrative of how Groothuis himself seeks the solace of Christ and His Word and promises, there is a short appendix of practical instruction for “comforters”. Those short suggestions are worth the price of the book alone.

But do not miss my meaning. The primary focus of this book is not as a “how to.” It is a book on “being”. What it means to be in the midst of the confusion and unexpected minefield of scattered demands, difficulties and unending complications of irreversible suffering. Most especially, to be in all of this, as a Christian.

No, Walking Through Twilight is not an easy book to read, but it is richly rewarding. It will encourage, strengthen, enlighten and inform everyone in their own suffering, or in ministering to others in theirs.

I cannot recommend it more highly as my own go-to in thinking about suffering in my own life, and in ministering to others in theirs.
Dr. David Allen’s ETS Paper on Calvin and the Atonement

November 19th, 2017

This year, my wife and I were privileged to attend the 2017 annual ETS (Evangelical Theological Society) meeting in Providence RI. One of the true highlights was to see my friend Dr. David Allen of SWBTS. If you haven’t read it, Dr. Allen’s seminal work on the extent of the Atonement is an absolute “must-read” for anyone wishing to interact with the issues surrounding debates on the extent of Christ’s atonement. Because his work is primarily historical theology (though in the process plenty of exegetical work gets done as well) it is an invaluable tool for dismantling prevailing myths about how Baptists and Calvinistic Baptists in particular (though Dr. Allen would not characterize himself as Calvinistic) have understood this vital topic.

Dr. Allen’s paper at ETS is a short but potent digest dealing specifically with the research done on Clavin’s own view of the extent of the aotnement. It is drawn from material in the larger book. The content will surprise many, no doubt anger a few, but inform all who spend the time to read it. It is a mere 20 pages but it is jam-packed with research and solid information. Agree or disagree, it is powerful, thought provoking, worthwhile and important. The link below will take to the paper which he has kindly allowed me to post here. ENJOY!

Allen ETS Paper – Calvin and the Extent of the Atonement
Just back from ETS

November 18th, 2017

My wonderful wife and I just got back from this year’s annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, and what a blessing the sessions we were able to attend this year were. Some highlights were:

William Lane Craig responding to a new book attacking penal substitutionary atonement. He dismantled it handily – reasserting the orthodox Reformed position.

Douglas Groothuis on What Philosophers wish Theologians knew. With his classic wry humor and a slight by-path on discussing the current trial of his brilliant wife’s struggle with dementia. His book on that is due out this Monday – “Walking Through Twilight.” An absolute must read.

A wonderful festschrift for Vern Poythress that even brought Wayne Grudem to tears as he recounted Poythress’s influence on his own life.

David Allen’s wonderful paper on Calvin’s view of the Atonement.

Not to mention D. A. Carson, Thom Schreiner, Al Mohler, Andy Naselli, Sam Storms, Greg Beale, and a host of others. Too many to attend them all.

And a spectacular 3 hour presentation (by multiple speakers) on the subject of Theistic Evolution. I’ll be reviewing this 1000 page tome soon, but to have a roster of top-tier scientists, philosophers, and theologians dealing with topic in such depth was worth the 6 hour drive each way and the cost of the conference and the hotel room. Their object in equipping the saints to be able to stand our ground against popular evolutionary myths and especially capitulations in the Church by groups like BioLogos was nothing short of stunning – and highly energizing.

If you can only buy one major book this year ($65.00 IS steep) – save your pennies and do it. Spectacular.

There were a few more but I wanted to tease you all with the Theistic Evolution book. GET IT!