February 2, 2010The Godly Home by Richard Baxter is being offered at a special launch price (40% of retail at $10.79) for only one week. This offer expires at 3 PM (EST) on Wednesday, February 3rd.
Get your copy before this special price is gone.
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November 3, 2008In a day where U2 is considered a Christian band with profound theological lyrics in their songs, we need a book like Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World. (C. J. Mahaney, ed., with a foreword by John Piper. Wheaton: Crossway, 2008. 191 pp.)
You may not change your view on U2 after reading this [...]
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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 3, 2008From 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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February 5, 2008A Biblical Understanding of Membership (PDF)
An excerpt from Mark Dever’s book What is a Healthy Church? Courtesy of Crossway Books.
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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 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 12, 2008Dr. Robert Peterson, Professor of Systematic, Covenant Theological Seminary, provides a most helpful article on Assurance that you will want to read.
The following is an abstract of the article
Moving From Uncertainty Toward Assurance — How God Assures His Adopted Children
God not only rescues His people from their sins; He also grants them assurance of salvation. [...]
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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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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
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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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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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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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 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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