The more I read, the more I appreciate books that contain expositions of Scripture. Light From Calvary brings up some points from each of Jesus seven final sayings as he approached his death that I hadn’t considered before. Reading this book will help me to read the Passion narratives in a more careful and understanding way!
Read MoreAll of creation tells us that God is there. God is not silent; we’ve got the volume turned down. It’s not that God overlooks us; it’s that we sometimes don’t recognize his gaze. (p. 174)
Read MoreTo be quite honest with you, I was not ready for the gut punch that I received as I began reading Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome by Kent and Barbara Hughes. In its opening chapters, Kent Hughes describes a season of deep discouragement where he was one step away from walking away from the pastorate altogether. Despite the years of encouragement, affirmation and high expectations that were placed upon him by the people around him, the church he was planting was not growing, in fact it was declining.
Read MoreCovenant is a “bible word” that is rarely used outside of the context of a certain kind of theology. As a result, covenant is the kind of thing that you either think a whole lot about, or not about at all. I think that Thomas Schreiner’s Covenant and God’s Purpose for the World, an entry in the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series which I really love, is ideal reading for the person in the second camp, the kind of person who never thinks about the idea of covenant. If you have not thought about covenant much, you will benefit tremendously from the survey that Schreiner gives to this very important biblical theme.
Read MoreI’ve been on a little bit of a pastoral ministry reading kick, and Jared Wilson’s The Pastor’s Justification was on my shelf waiting to be read, and I am so glad that I picked it up and started reading. I’d put The Pastor’s Justification up there in the same genre as Paul Tripp’s Dangerous Calling and most similarly Zack Eswine’s The Imperfect Pastor, books that are a good comfort for worn down pastors with plenty of autobiography and encouragement from the author’s personal experience.
Read MoreThis short booklet published by Log College Press contains two lectures given by William S. Plumer (whose Psalms commentary is legendary, up there with Spurgeon’s Treasury of David) as his inaugural addresses at the two faculty positions he held over the course of his academic career.
Read MoreIn the classic historical study Worship: Reformed according to Scripture, Hughes Oliphant Old traces the history of all of the main elements of worship (praise, preaching, communion, baptism & more), and shows how the practice of worship has developed from Old Testament times to today.
Read MoreThe Kingdom of God and the Glory of the Cross by Patrick Schreiner seeks to trace the storyline of the Bible from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 through the angle of “The Kingdom of God”.
Read MoreRead, pray, sing, start today. Whitney is clear that there is no magic formula or certification you need to begin a routine of family worship. It is not even necessary for the person who is leading to prepare anything beforehand. All you need to get started worshipping God as a family is a Bible to read and songs to sing.
Read MoreChapell helpfully draws out how the structures of the liturgies of Luther, Calvin, and the Westminster assembly all reflect the story of the gospel, and encourages his reader to do the same with their liturgy.
Read MoreDerek Kidner’s book “The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job & Ecclesiastes” is an introduction to wisdom literature in the Old Testament, and the academic discussions that surround the wisdom books. He works his way through the three books one-by-one: first introducing them, and then reflecting on the issues of the day regarding each book.
Read MoreActs of the Risen Lord Jesus by Alan Thompson - Book Review (New Studies in Biblical Theology)
Read MoreIn Reisinger, I have found an example of the kind of person I want to be: devoted to speaking the gospel to others, and devoted to putting good books in the hands of people that could benefit from reading them.
Read MorePastor, Jack Miller prescribes simple tools to refresh and revive your local church.
Read MoreThe Scuttlebutt Letters will provoke you to think more carefully about the relationship between our words and our hearts, while making you laugh in the process
Read MoreMy God is True! is a personal story of a man who walked with the Lord down the dark road of suffering with cancer.
Read MoreListen up is a short booklet to help you get more out of the sermons you listen to!
Read More“Master Robert Bruce” by D.C. Macnicol published by @banneroftruth is the story of a Scottish minister in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century wrestling with issues of persecution of the church and an unjust and immoral king.
Read MoreThe Flow of the Psalms will help you to read the Bible in its original context and see Christ in the Psalms.
Read MoreThe Heart of Christ will remind you of the gentle heart of our Lord Jesus.
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