Doug Moo’s commentary on Colossians and Philemon is now available.
Here’s a four-part sermon series from Moo on the book:

Part One - Col 1:3-14 — Douglas Moo gives a broad overview of the book of Colossians of how they were trying to fit Christ into the worldview they’d already adopted. He homes on some key thoughts [...]

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Dr. Timothy Keller calls Richard Baxter’s Christian Directory “The greatest manual on biblical counseling ever produced.”
Published by Reformation Heritage Books, Baxter’s Christian Directory is a comprehensive survey of practical theology. In it, Richard Baxter instructs Christians on a host of issues that they face in life. He gives directions for ordering one’s personal life before [...]

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I can only imagine what kind of ministry a pastor would have given the following philosophy of ministry.

1 Timothy 4:13-16
13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. 14 Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid [...]

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Iain 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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What do you do when you’ve really blown it? How can a broken sinner stand before God without fear? Is there such a thing as a new beginning? Whiter Than Snow answers these questions through fifty-two meditations on Psalm 51. Designed for busy believers, these reflections are brief, engaging, and practical.
Although we have not yet [...]

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From In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement
pg. 109-110
… when we give attention and authority to all parts of the New Testament canon, substitution [speaking of the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement] becomes the center and focus of the Bible’s witness to the meaning of Christ’s death, and the measure [...]

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In a recent posting by John Piper on how he decides which books to read, he ends by saying this…
I don’t think we ought to be reading new books all the time. I think we should read old books. And then the question is whether time and history has proven them. There are some books [...]

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On April 24, 2008, Dr. Doug Sweeney and Collin Hansen discussed Hansen’s Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008).
An MP3 of this discussion, sponsored by the Henry Center, is now available from the Henry Center’s media archive (MP3 | video).
Publisher’s Description: From places like John Piper’s den, Al Mohler’s [...]

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Next year the church will celebrate the 500th birthday of John Calvin. Be prepared to see a glut of books on the man for the next year. This newest volume, out soon from P&R, looks great.
A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes: Essays and Analysis (Hardcover)
Read inside (PDFs): Sample Pages
Publisher: P&R Publishing Company
Author: Hall, David W., [...]

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D.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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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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Pastor William Farley, in his book, Outrageous Mercy: Rediscover the Radical Nature of Christianity, says the message of the cross matters.
The message of the cross matters to us for at least four reasons.
First, the cross is our message. It is the heart, soul, and center of Christian faith and practice. There is no good news [...]

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Just 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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Lectures 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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I 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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Crossway 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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I 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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See 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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America 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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Where 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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Dr. 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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Jerry 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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In 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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Taken from the book The Reformed Pastor by the puritan preacher Richard Baxter.
One of our most heinous and palpable sins is PRIDE. This is a sin that hath too much interest in the best of us, but which is more hateful and inexcusable in us than in other men. Yet is it so prevalent in [...]

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Blogger Timmy Brister has issued a challenge to Christians to read through some of the most important writings of the Puritans, reading one book a month through 2008. Here is his suggested list, with links to each book at Westminster Bookstore, where you can get them all for at least 30% off list price:
January: The [...]

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By most measures the significance of J. Gresham Machen is minor. Few outside the world of conservative Presbyterianism know about the man once recognized as the most articulate and intelligent proponent of historic Protestantism in the United States. Indeed, most assessments of Machen highlight his historical importance, a sure sign of fading significance. As early [...]

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I 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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Though known for his commentaries on the Bible, few understand the passion and heart in this man. In his book, Method for Prayer, Henry’s love for Jesus, passion for prayer, and love of Scripture can clearly be seen. The book is divided into different methods of prayer. In each chapter Henry offers some insights but [...]

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Modern evangelical churches are prone to herd their flocks into an organized small group system, often under the administration of a Small Groups Pastor. It’s a popular idea, even with leaders of smaller churches, to mandate some sort of book to follow or a curriculum as a basis for discussion in these small groups; the [...]

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The 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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I 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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Adrian 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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This month’s free audio download at ChristianAudio.com is Jonathan Edwards’s classic, Religious Affections.
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections stands as Edwards’s most penetrating interpretation of the awakenings of his time, not to mention one of the most penetrating of any time. As in Some Thoughts, he argued against the extremes of emotionalism on the one [...]

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The 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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ESV, 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
Westminster Bookstore: $29.99 - 40% Off
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Description: The ESV Literary Study Bible approaches the Bible as literature and [...]

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This 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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Bruce Waltke’s long-awaited, 1000-page, magnum opus — An Old Testament Theology – has finally been published by Zondervan.
You can read the table of contents and chapter 1 online.
Publisher’s Description
The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It [...]

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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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“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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There 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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Okay… 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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Tim Challies is organizing an online reading group to go through classics together. They are starting with Ryle’s Holiness and Faithfulness, edited by J. I. Packer.
They’ll do a chapter a week for 8 weeks, starting on Thursday. You can read more about it here.
I think I will join in — Shane Trammel

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I have found this place to be a great resource for Christian Books

Check out the “Best of WTS Sale“. See below, one example of what is on sale here.

Recommended by Timothy Witmer of Westminster Theological Seminary.
See all of Dr. Witmer’s recommendations.
Staff Review: Puritan pastor Richard Baxter of Kidderminster writes on the necessity of spiritual renewal [...]

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Jonathan Edwards on Suffering and the Sweetness of Christ
In September, 1725, I was taken ill at New Haven, and while endeavoring to go home to Windsor, was so ill at the North Village, that I could go no farther, where I lay sick, for about a quarter of a year. In this sickness, God was [...]

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Whom does God forgive and under what conditions does he forgive? God forgives those who put their hope in him — the very God who condemns them for their wickedness:
… the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love. (Psalm 147:11)
The Lord your God is gracious and [...]

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The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions- Gift Edition, black bonded leather
By Arthur Bennett / Banner Of Truth
Draw upon the inspiration of the elegant prayers of such Puritans as John Bunyan, Isaac Watts, David Brainerd, Augustus Toplady, and Charles Spurgeon, The Valley of Vision has been preparred not to simply supply [...]

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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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Chosen 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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