The Study Room, Christian library, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

When you are given a brand-new book on a controversial topic and asked to put it in your new Christian library, what do you do? Research! Luckily for me, election and predestination, Calvinism and Arminanism, are not new ideas to me. But still, the goal of The Study Room is to bring understanding to the Bible, not cloud the gospel with rhetoric and opinions. So how to approach this biblically? How to tell if this book is hogwash or a genuine tool for clarifying a complicated issue? Is Election and Predestination: Looking for Answers, not Arguments, by Peter Kerr, a yay or a nay?

Taking God at His Word, by Kevin DeYoung can easily be summed up by the subtitle: Why the Bible is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me. In this book, DeYoung sets out to convince his readers that the Bible is entirely true, entirely from God, and entirely practical for us still today. He accomplishes this goal completely.