July 27, 2008Iain Murray, in his new book, Lloyd-Jones: Messenger of Grace, gives us, among other things, this compelling look into Martyn Lloyd-Jones‘ teaching on phenomena, experiences, excitement, the Holy Spirit, and the centrality of Christ in preaching.
From page 156-157, we read:
Distractions from holding to the centrality of Christ are repeatedly to be found throughout his [Lloyd-Jones] [...]
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June 8, 2008On the eve of the publication of his latest book, The Courage to be Protestant (Eerdmans, 2008), Derek Thomas asked him some questions about the reasons that lay behind its publication.
DT: Congratulations David on the publication of your latest book! How is this related to the tetralogy (or is it quodrilogy?) of volumes which began [...]
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April 21, 2008D.A. Carson’s Christ and Culture Revisited is now available. This is one you’ll definitely want to pick up. In the preface he provides a helpful summary of the book:
My own effort in this book begins by summarizing Niebuhr, since Niebuhr has become an icon to which everyone refers, though few today still read him [...]
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February 23, 2008 The Complete Zoo Adventure: A Field Trip in a Book, spiral bound
By Mary & Gary Parker / Master Books
Get the absolute most out of your zoo adventure-before, during and even after your trip ends! Explore God’s amazing creation with this colorful and photograph-filled evolution-free, pro-Creationist guide to zoo creatures. Seven [...]
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February 12, 2008Just Released ! The Children of Caeser
Dr. Voddie Baucham knows what most parents are too quick to dismiss: whoever is teaching our children is also discipling them. Voddie persuasively argues that Christian parents need to take the initiative in their children’s education and stop turning them over to the anti-God environment of the government school. [...]
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February 12, 2008Lectures to My Students (Hardcover)
Publisher: Banner of Truth
Author: Spurgeon, Charles H.
ISBN-13: 9780851519685
Binding: Hardcover
List Price: $39.00
Westminster Bookstore: $27.30 - 30% Off
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 [...]
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February 2, 2008I recently had the opportunity to talk with Michael Gaydosh at Solid Ground Christian Books about some of the great works they are making available to a new generation of readers. There is a resurgence of interest in Reformed Theology and SGCB has made it there goal to provide God-centered, Christ-exalting, Scripture-saturated Reformed and Calvinistic [...]
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January 29, 2008Crossway has just published a new, attractive, TruTone version of Spurgeon’s classics, Morning by Morning and Evening by Evening.
Morning by Morning is considered a devotional classic for its faithful handling of Scripture and passionate interaction with God’s Word. In this stand-alone edition, noted pastor-author Alistair Begg has carefully modernized Charles Spurgeon’s language while preserving [...]
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January 28, 2008I just received The Parables of Jesus: Entering, Growing, Living & Finishing in God’s Kingdom and I am looking forward to reading this book and posting my review.
Just a cursory viewing of the contents has me eager to dive in and consume the teaching Pastor Terry Johnson has to share.
No doubt, this book will [...]
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January 28, 2008See Table of Contents and Chapters 1-3 at Crossway
Love Your Neighbor
By Norman L. Geisler & Ryan P. Snuffer / Good News & Crossway
Love Your Neighbor is a concise introduction to Christian ethics. It begins with a look at the biblical basis for morality, defines and describes various philosophical approaches to the subject of ethics, then [...]
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January 23, 2008America has become the most permissive of all democratic societies in the modern world when it comes to abortion!
John Piper, in his book, Hunger for God, has a chapter entitled, Fasting for the Little Ones, that’s so timely given the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
An excerpt:
But I wonder if many of the young [...]
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January 21, 2008Where in today’s church do you hear the doctrine of ‘The Fear of God‘ preached or lived out by its members. To be sure, there are pastors who still preach this doctrine and there are no doubt, church members who understand and live in ‘The Fear of God’.
It is no streach however to suggest that [...]
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January 17, 2008Dr. Daniel Akin, president of Southestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has recently edited a most helpful title, A Theology for the Church.
A Theology for the Church
By Edited by Daniel L. Akin / B & H Publishing Group
What does Scripture say? What has the church believed? How do various doctrines fit together? What impact do they have [...]
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January 14, 2008Jerry Bridges brings us a new book Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate.
Have Christians become so preoccupied with the major sins of our society that we have lost sight of our need to deal with our own more subtle sins? Jerry Bridges returns to his trademark theme of holiness and addresses a dozen clusters [...]
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January 12, 2008In his commentary on Ephesian, R. Kent Hughes shares this on the elect.
… the telltale evidence (not the cause) of one’s election is holiness. Harold Ockenga, pastor of Park Street Church and founding president of Fuller Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Seminary, put it in no uncertain terms:
If God has elected us He has not elected us [...]
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January 7, 2008I found the following quote from Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution insightful and thought provoking. The quote is a commentary on Psalm 119:25-32.
Psalm 119:25-32
25 My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!
26 When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes!
27 [...]
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December 16, 2007The doctrine of justification is under considerable debate today. Traditional Evangelicals have their view, Roman Catholics theirs, Emergent types yet another, and then we have the ‘New Perspective on Paul’
Counted Righteous in Christ, by Pastor John Piper, is a most helpful book making a defense of the biblical doctrine of justification.
Are Christians merely forgiven, or [...]
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December 5, 2007I have read several books on the ‘Church Fathers’ but they have been published from a Catholic perspective. Yet, more and more, we hear reference being made to the ‘Church Fathers’ in evangelical circles.
I have not read Getting to Know the Church Fathers yet but I plan to. It is my hope that this book [...]
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November 6, 2007Adrian Warnock on John Piper’s new book, The Future of Justification.
Today I will take you further into Piper’s argument where he explains the long-held position, which Wright denies, that God cannot simply ‘forgive’ the guilty, but instead an exchange between guilt and righteousness must take place:
An omniscient and just judge never “finds in favor” [...]
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October 28, 2007The book Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution is finally available in the U.S.
You can read John Piper’s foreword and chapter 1 online.
Westminster Bookstore is offering a special price of 40% off (until Nov. 2).
Here are just a few of the endorsements:
“The Bible historically has been understood to teach explicitly and [...]
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October 26, 2007ESV, The Literary Study Bible (Black Letter)
Read inside (PDFs):
Literary Study Bible Brochure & Sample Pages
Publisher: Crossway/Good News Publishers
Author: Leland Ryken & Philip Graham Ryken (Editors)
ISBN-10: 1581348088 | ISBN-13: 9781581348088
Binding: Hardcover
List Price: $49.99
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Description: The ESV Literary Study Bible approaches the Bible as literature and [...]
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October 21, 2007This comes directly from the books web site:
Roughly two thousand years ago, Jesus was born in a dumpy, rural, hick town, not unlike those today where guys change their own oil, think pro wrestling is real, find women who chew tobacco sexy, and eat a lot of Hot Pockets with their uncle-daddy. Jesus’ mom was [...]
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September 25, 2007 From John Piper, in Let the Nations Be Glad!, 2nd ed: The Supremacy of God in Missions
Charles Wesley gives us an example of how one might obey Hebrews 13:13 and go “outside the camp” and bear the abuse he endured. On July 18, 1738, two months after his conversion, Charles Wesley did an [...]
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September 20, 2007From Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor:
“Take heed to yourselves lest you should be void of that saving grace of God which you offer to others, and be strangers to the effectual working of that gospel which you preach; and lest, while you proclaim the necessity of a Saviour to the world, your hearts should neglect [...]
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September 20, 2007“The Christian man…finds in the Bible the very Word of God. Let it not be said that dependence on a book is a dead or an artificial thing. The Reformation of the sixteenth century was founded upon the authority of the Bible, yet it set the world aflame. Dependence upon a word of man [...]
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September 11, 2007There has been a fair amount of coverage related to the Time Magazine article ‘Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith’.
This article talks about a new, innocuously titled book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint [...]
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August 29, 2007Okay… that’s an anachronistic title for this post. But reading through Calvin’s sermons on the beatitudes, I came across this section which seemed so prophetically to apply to our day. It’s a long quote, but worth it.
“Someone might ask whether it is right for God’s children to be rich, to employ the good things which [...]
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August 24, 2007We are keenly interested in the missional/emergent stream of Christian faith. To that end, we will be reviewing the following book title. We will update this post with a review as we go through the book.
The Ministry of the Missional Church: A Community Led by the Spirit
By Craig Van Gelder / Baker Books* Following his [...]
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August 23, 2007“Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament” is a promising new release from D.A. Carson and G.K. Beale
This is a volume worthy of any library, a resource you will use over and over again in your study of the Bible.
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old TestamentEdited by G.K. Beale [...]
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March 15, 2007
The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the WorldBy Stephen J. Nichols / Crossway Books & Bibles
Goes behind the scenes and uncovers the human side of the larger-than-life Reformers through user-friendly narrative stories on the Reformation.
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March 1, 2007Chosen for Life: The Case for Divine Election by C. Samuel Storms.
About the Book:
An in-depth look at the doctrine of divine election, with an attempt to clarify precisely what is at stake and correct misrepresentations of both points of view.Divine election is certainly one of the more profound—and controversial—doctrines in the Bible. Does God elect [...]
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