I wanted to bring to your attention a few new books that have come out in recent days that you may want to add to your reading list (perhaps even your birthday and Christmas wish lists!). The first book I want to note is the first entree of a new preaching commentary by R. C Sproul entitled the St. Andrew’s Expositional Commentary series. Sproul has published a commentary on Romans before (which can be found here), but this is a new treatment based upon his preaching at St. Andrew’s Chapel in Lake Mary, Florida. This volume contains 58 sermons on the text of Romans and promises to be a valuable addition to your library. You can obtain the book here.
Another new title is the book edited by Anthony J. Carter, entitled Glory Road: The Journey of Ten African Americans into Reformed Christianity. You can obtain the book here. We ought to be praying for the Reformed gospel (really, the only gospel there is) to penetrate the African-American community and other communities as well. Anthony Carter has written other worthwhile volumes as well. See his Experiencing the Truth here and his On Being Black and Reformed here.
David VanDrunen, minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and professor of systematic theology and Christian ethics at Westminster Seminary in California, has written a timely book entitled Bioethics and the Christian Life which can be found here. This is a book that deals with issues that effect everybody and is written from Dr. Van Drunen’s two kingdoms and natural law perspective.
Finally, the following volume is probably priced to steeply for most readers. However, I would encourage our readers to suggest that their local library obtain the book for their patrons. I am referring to Brian J. Lee’s new offering, Johannes Cocceius and the Exegetical Roots of Federal Theology: Reformation Developments in the Interpretation of Hebrews 7-10. This volume is a revised form of Lee’s dissertaton done under the direction of Richard Muller at Calvin Theological Seminary. Lee is a graduate of Westminster Seminary in California and currently serves as a URC church planter in Washington D. C. The book is published by the German publisher Vandenhoek & Ruprecht and is available here. I do want to note that there are two other volumes in this series (edited by Calvin scholar Herman J. Selderhuis) worthy of mention: Mark Beach’s Christ and the Covenant: Francis Turretin’s Federal Theology as a Defense of the Doctrine of Grace (found here) and Cornelis Venema’s Accepted and Renewed in Christ: The “Twofold Grace of God” and the Interpretation of Calvin’s Theology (found here).  Both Beach and Venema serve on the faculty of Mid-America Reformed Seminary.
Enjoy reading and be edified by it.
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naïve. (Romans 16:17-18)