Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921) is best known for The Scofield Refence Bible, originally printed in 1909 by Oxford University Press, and revised in 1917, and then the New Scofield Reference Bible, printed in 1967. But some may not realize that Scofield also wrote many small books, some of which were reprints of his sermons from […]
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How To Obtain Fullness of Power
Reuben Archer Torrey (1856-1928) was D.L. Moody’s superintendent of Moody Bible Institute for 19 years, then the pastor of Moody Church in Chicago. He was a graduate of Yale University with both A.B. and Divinity degrees. The five chapters are on the Word of God, the blood of Christ, the power of the Holy Spirit, […]
The Pursuit of God
Although I read and reported on this book over twenty years ago in Aletheia, I wanted to read it again connected to some recent study in the believer’s devotional life. Tozer followed A.B. Simpson as the editor and given leader of the CMA, and therefore has been known to many as a modern day pietist. […]
Unpacking Forgiveness
I was loaned this book by a friend and enjoyed it because I have not read enough on this important subject. I realize that there are a lot of viewpoints on the various aspects of forgiveness. Brauns defines forgiveness in the first few chapters and repeats this definition: “A commitment by the offended to pardon […]
Fellowship With God
F.B. Meyer (1847-1929) was a Baptist pastor, writer, and speaker and pastor of Melbourne Hall church in Leicester, England and later Regents Park Chapel and Christ Church, both in London. Meyer was a frequent attender at the Keswick Convention and leaned toward the higher life point of view. He traveled to New York in the […]
A Call for Discernment
Adams (the author of Competent to Counsel and many other books) wrote this book in 1987 which was reprinted in 1998. He defines discernment by first explaining that the world sees things in a “continuum thinking” with black and white being the extremes and most things between being various shades of gray. God sees things […]
Living in the Spirit: A Look at Wine, Wo...
This is a 1970s study booklet (it has no date) by MacArthur on three subjects: Bible wine, Biblical music, and the filling of the Spirit. In reviewing material on the first two, I found that I had put this away some years ago. In this study guide MacArthur takes the “one wine” view of Bible […]
This World: Playground or Battleground?
What Christian doesn’t enjoy another book by A.W. Tozer? After all that I have read of Tozer over the years, this title was brought to my attention in a recent article and I had not read it. The publisher’s forward (for Wing Spread Publishers, Camphill, PA) explains that these writings were originally editorials that Tozer […]
Give Them Grace
Mother and daughter authors, Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson make an excellent main point in Give Them Grace that truly righteous and godly children are products of their own personal relationship to God. It was good to be reminded that there really is no perfect parenting formula for raising godly children. This is a concept that ought […]
Transforming Homosexuality
This book was my favorite treatment of the issue so far. Burk and Lambert are both professors connected with Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lousville, KY. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., the president of SBTS, writes the Forward and says, “Believers cannot accept any argument suggesting the impossibility of fundamentally reorienting a believer’s desires in such […]