I was given this book (a 2007 book) together with Jay Adams’ book (a 1987 book) on discernment. Challies does follow Adams a lot and even uses some of his very illustrations. For example his biographical note on A.W. Pink, how he left church altogether because he could not find one good enough (p. 149), […]
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Human Nature, America, and the Church
America and, therefore, the Christian church are experiencing an upheaval unique to the present age but unlike any phenomenon in recent history. Cultural watchers have described it as post-Christian, post-modern, post-morality, slouching toward Gomorrah, God is dead, and also with Biblical terminology such as the great apostasy, the one-world church, the harlot of Revelation, etc. […]
Biblical Submission
The humility and discipline of submitting to those over us has a subtle and unique power. It is not power over the leader, but power over self. Power over selfishness. To place my desires and perspective and opinions below that of another person (husband, parent, pastor, teacher, rules, etc.) Is not only a freeing […]
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 […]
When God Closes the Door
The foremost belief of a sinner who refuses God’s grace is that the consequences of that refusal will never come. Surely anyone who truly understood and believed in what the Bible teaches about heaven and hell would not take such a chance as this. But, of course, the fact is that such a person does […]
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 […]
Jesus On Trial
I am always open to reading new material from a variety of authors. I have been interested in seeing and hearing David Limbaugh (the brother of the well known Rush) on television and radio because of his conversion to Christianity and his effective witness in those public forums. This is a 2014 book on apologetics […]
It’s Time To Start Again
Well, it’s time to start again. On January 1st no one writing columns really knows how to say anything new. As a pastor who must preach a fresh sermon every Christmas and Easter and all the other holidays, and has been doing it for most of my life, I can tell you I repeat myself […]
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 […]
What does the Bible say about Homosexual...
Having enjoyed DeYoung’s writings in the past, I wanted to read his position on this contemporary topic. The author is senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan and has written a number of books on contemporary issues. This book is divided into two parts: Understanding God’s Word and Answering Objections. The first […]