The job of doing Bible exposition not only involves interpretation (finding what the passage means) and illustration (highlighting the meaning with real life situations) but also application (exhortations to action based on the truths found in the text). The application of a text can easily be ignored because this is the harder thing to do. […]
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Quiet Talks on Power
Ministry Books I thought Donald Whitney on Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church was great on local church life. Today’s Gospel by Walter Chantry was a Calvinistic criticism of today’s gospel-light. Stuart Briscoe on Purifying The Church is his commentary on Titus and has good applications for teaching and preaching. Quiet Talks on Power by S.D. Gordon was one of those challenging books that […]
Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church
Ministry Books I thought Donald Whitney on Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church was great on local church life. Today’s Gospel by Walter Chantry was a Calvinistic criticism of today’s gospel-light. Stuart Briscoe on Purifying The Church is his commentary on Titus and has good applications for teaching and preaching. Quiet Talks on Power by S.D. […]
God’s Provision for Normal Christian Liv
This is a 1990 edition of Ketcham’s book which Regular Baptist Press is still offering. Ketcham was one of the fathers of the GARBC movement and an outspoken fundamentalist. This book emphasized three truths especially: The Lord Jesus Christ in the believer’s life; the Bible as God’s inspired Word equal to the very words of […]
You Shall Be Witnesses Unto Me
No more daunting task could have been given the church than to evangelize the whole world. Surely for such a job God would have chosen angels to speak to the world as they first spoke the good news to shepherds and caused such urgency on their part. Or perhaps a multiplication of apostles and prophets […]
The Purposes of Calvary
This book was given to me by my good friend Lon Stewart. I had never read Harry Rimmer but soon learned that he had been a prolific evangelical (British) voice of the first half of the twentieth century and Eerdmans had published a number of his books. His style is typical of that era (similar […]
All The Days
I have read most of Havner’s books over the last few years (at least all that I could find). I also keep some kind of “daily” reading book beside my bed which I read every night. Havner’s All The Days was my choice for 2004. Since Havner compiled this book somewhat later in his life […]
The Greatest Obstacle to Bible Knowledge
The greatest obstacle to Bible knowledge is not culture, nor education, nor any other thing lacking in our lives, but rather it is something existing in our lives that should not be there. Paul said of the Corinthian church, That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge […]
Holiness, The False and the True
I have found that reading Ironside on biblical subjects is a rewarding thing (we are all familiar with his commentaries). Ironside was converted in the Holiness movement of the Salvation Army. He quickly became a student and then a teacher in the movement. He retained the zeal found there the rest of his life. The […]
There Is Peace In The Storm
There’s an old saying that goes, “Whatever you’re overflowing with will spill out when you’re bumped.” The apostle Paul was bumped all over the world and nothing spilled out but gold, silver and precious stones. With the jewelry of Roman chains hanging about him he wrote, Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer […]