The Study Room, Christian library, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

We all deal with anxiety in our lives, whether it is being worried about something specific or feeling anxious without knowing why. How do we deal with those feelings as Christians? How do we continue to live our lives for God’s glory when we feel like we cannot do anything? Are we as Christians supposed to respond to anxiety differently than the rest of the world? In John MacArthur’s book Anxious for Nothing, he uses the Bible to outline how we can avoid those anxieties through prayer, replace those intrusive thoughts with thoughts of God, destroy those spirals of emotions by casting our cares on God, and turn those worries into contentment.

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?