[On Mondays, I review books I have finished reading in a word-for-word fashion in the previous week.] ———————————————– The Murder of Jesus John MacArthur Word Publishing, 2000 (250 pages) In this volume, MacArthur simply walks the reader through the events often called “the passion.” Beginning with the plot devised by the Jewish leaders and their conversation with Judas Iscariot, the writer shares thoughts on the events that lead up to the cross. One major difference in this book and many others by MacArthur that I have read in the past, this book has very few footnotes or references. It seems to be MacArthur just trying to share his thoughts on…

For the first 30 or so pages of Free Book, I got the feeling that this was another “just do what you want and God will bless it” type of book. While the rest of the volume put those thoughts down a bit, I was still disappointed by much of Tome’s material. Free Book is about the freedom that comes in being a Christian; a theme that needs to be heard. However, the book took liberties that were not fair to the topic. For example, Tome admits in the first part of the book that he drinks beer. He also admits that he “pushed” for a certain off-color word to appear…