December 8, 2009Just in time for Christmas and the New Year, Banner of Truth is now selling a new compilation devotional of Puritan excerpts titled Voices from the Past: Puritan Devotional Readings (cloth, 428 pgs). It looks really good. You can download and preview the first 20 pages here (PDF).
TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING! This work has [...]
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January 22, 2009Just this evening I discovered a wonderful resource, a booklet by Jim Ellif called The Eaglet.
The Eaglet presents the good news about Christ in a colorful story that engages both children and adults. Parents, grandparents, pastors, Bible study leaders and loving Christians everywhere will find it an important resource for explaining what it means to [...]
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October 4, 2008Consider this great sermon series by Dr. Steve Lawson. He explains the Doctrines of Grace, following the familiar acronym TULIP, with crystal clarity, Biblical integrity, and contagious passion.
The MP3s are provided below:
Session 1 – Total Depravity
Session 2 – Unconditional Election
Session 3 – Limited Atonement
Session 4 – Irresistible Grace
Session 5 – Perserverance of the Saints
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July 30, 2008We recommend and quote from a good number of books here and we don’t apologize for it but would like to explain why we do it.
Just to make it clear, it is not one of the reasons we quote from and recommend books, because we make a lot of money doing it. We do get [...]
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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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July 23, 200821 New Titles from Some of the Most Trusted Biblical Counselors
Christian Counseling & Education Foundation authors (CCEF) Paul Trip, Ed Welch, David Powlison and others bring Christ-centered, gospel-saturated, biblically faithful counsel to the problems real people face in today’s world.
Individual booklets are just $3.59 each. Get them in packs of 5 for $14.36—like getting one [...]
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July 15, 2008Consider these Books and other resources by featured author Jonathan Edwards
Freedom of the Will | Religious Affections | Praying Together for True Revival
We need more men like Him.
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July 7, 2008What 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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June 19, 2008Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob …
Princeton Theological Review (PTR) is available free of charge HERE
disclaimer:
You can be sure that I do not agree with all the views expressed in the pages of the Princeton Theological Review. I am particularly interested in [...]
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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 19, 2008Here are some limited-time specials on theological books that we would encourage you to not pass up:
Spirit Empowered Preaching: Involving the Holy Spirit in Your Ministry by Art Azurdia 50% off – probably the best price you will ever find on this truly helpful book. We want to get as many of [...]
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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 9, 2008Blogger 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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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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October 17, 2007Westminster Bookstore, one of the best places on the internet to get good Christian books, has a new look.
Take some time and visit this great resource.
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September 12, 2007Albert Mohler shares some thoughts on the reading of books. Read the complete post here.
As Solomon warned, “Of making many books there is no end” [Ecclesiastes: 12:12]. There is no way to read everything, and not everything deserves to be read. I say that in order to confront the notion that anyone, anywhere, can master [...]
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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 27, 2007I 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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August 24, 2007If you are a book fan, it will be worth your while to check out the sale at Westminster Bookstore.
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August 22, 2007Jonathan 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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August 14, 2007Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church
By Harold O.J. Brown / Hendrickson Publishers
The history of Christian Theology is in large part a history of heresies, because Jesus and the claims he made…seemed incredible, writes the author. Heresies presents the story of how succeeding generations of Christians through almost twenty centuries have [...]
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August 9, 2007An Exposition of Romans, 14 Volumes
By D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones / Banner Of Truth
No New Testament epistle is more foundational to the faith than Romans, and no exposition of Paul’s letter is more insightful than that of Lloyd-Jones. Drawn from his messages at Westminster Chapel from 1955 to 1968, this masterful series of sermons blends evangelical [...]
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July 7, 2007Welcome to the PastorBookshelf free book giveaway program, Free Book Friday. Nearly every Monday we will pick a book and announce it here on the PastorBookshelf Blog. To enter to win the book, link to the post that announces the week’s free book from your blog and then post the link to your post in [...]
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June 2, 2007White Devil: The Life and Legend of Hudson Taylor
By Tien Dao / Monarch Books
Hudson Taylor’s life and legend depicted in manhua form (manga produced in China) conveys the heart of his ministry to the Chinese people in the last half of the 19th century. Tien Dao and Po-Shing Cheung collaborated on the original Chinese version, [...]
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May 30, 2007Book Warning: ‘Handbook of Christian Apologetics‘ — Not what you may think.
The book, ‘Handbook of Christian Apologetics’ is said to categorize and summarize all major arguments for all the major Christian teachings. But be warned, this book is authored by two very dedicated Roman Catholics (Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli). Of special interest [...]
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May 15, 2007Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers
By Randy Alcorn / MultnomahTackling one of the most crucial hot-button issues of our time, Alcorn takes a hard look at difficult questions, including “Is the unborn child a human being?” “When does life begin?” and “Do the unborn have the same rights as adults?” His clear [...]
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April 25, 2007
Google Video Link Here
HT: Ben Davis, Symphony of Scripture
At Symphony of Scripture, Ben Davis has taken the time to provide some great notes to go along with this video. Enjoy.
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April 12, 2007Much of the church nowdays seems to think Christians are supposed to be at play rather than at war. The idea of actually fighting for doctrinal truth is the furthest thing from most churchgoers’ thought.
–John MacArthur (from The Truth War)
The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception
By John MacArthur / Thomas Nelson
Right [...]
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March 17, 2007[odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/2277753/view]
Also, a must read is Ravenhill’s book, Why Revival Tarries
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March 15, 2007The 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 8, 2007Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views
By Dave Hunt & James White / Multnomah
A centuries-old belief system is put to the test as two prominent authors examine the validity of Calvinism. White takes the point position; Hunt, the counterpoint. The familiar debate format features affirmative and denial statements concerning the Reformer’s teachings on God’s sovereignty [...]
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March 7, 2007The Works of John Wesley, Third Edition, 7 Vols.
By Wesley / Baker
The most complete collection available of Wesley’s works! The writings in these volumes include Wesley’s comments on more than 4,000 subjects, hundreds of personal letters, his complete journal, homiletical pointers, scores of addresses, sermon resources, and an extensive subject and Scripture index. 7488 pages [...]
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March 6, 2007Sermons on the Beatitudes
By John Calvin / Banner Of Truth
This volume presents readers with a short series of sermons on the Beatitudes, translated for the first time into English by Robert White. They comprise Calvin’s exposition of [biblelink]Matthew 5:1-12[/biblelink], [biblelink]Mark 3:13-19[/biblelink] and [biblelink]Luke 6:12-26[/biblelink]. Five sermons were preached on the Beatitudes in the course of [...]
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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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