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Sermons on the Acts of the Apostles: Chapters 1-7 (Hardcover)

Publisher: Banner of Truth
Author: Calvin, John
ISBN-13: 9780851519685
Binding: Hardcover
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Never before translated into English!

These forty-four extant sermons on Acts by John Calvin will help determine whether one’s conscience is at peace or simply asleep! Calvin is hailed for his biblical theology, but largely ignored with respect to his insistence upon the transformed life…demanded of genuine Christian discipleship. The motive behind his insistence arises from his acute awareness that God, after expressing his fatherly love andgracious acceptance of the wayward, remains the uncompromising judge of all humankind, Christian or not. That awareness of judgment should, Calvin says, ‘make our hair stand on end’ and drive us to repentance, without which there is no forgiveness.

Lectures to My Students (Hardcover)

Publisher: Banner of Truth
Author: Spurgeon, Charles H.
ISBN-13: 9780851519685
Binding: Hardcover
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The substance of Spurgeon’s regular Friday afternoon addresses to the students of the Pastor’s College (founded by Spurgeon in 1857 to train others for the ministry), this new complete and unabridged Banner edition, newly typeset and smyth-sewn, contains all the lectures in the original first and second series, including “The Minister’s Self-Watch,” “The Preacher’s Private Prayer,” “The Minister’s Fainting Fits,” “The Holy Spirit in Connection with our Ministry,” “The Need of Decision for the Truth,” and “On Conversion as our Aim.” This edition also includes a third series of lectures, originally published as “The Art of illustration,” and Spurgeon’s Commenting and Commentaries, which contains two further lectures and a fascinating and often humorously annotated catalogue of commentaries.

Reflecting on nature of this work, Spurgeon writes, “The solemn work with which the Christian ministry concerns itself demands a man’s all, and that all at its best. To engage in it half-heartedly is an insult to God and man. Slumber must forsake our eyelids sooner than men shall be allowed to perish. Yet we are all prone to sleep as do others, and students, among the rest, are apt to act the part of the foolish virgins; therefore have I sought to speak out my whole soul, in the hope that I might not create or foster dullness in others. May He in whose hand are the churches and their pastors bless these words to younger brethren in the ministry, and if so, I shall count it more than a full reward, and shall gratefully praise the Lord.”