Sign of the New Covenant in Christ The authors of Believers Baptism essentially purpose to validate believer’s baptism (credobaptism) (6) as a believer’s “initiation rite into the Christian church” (1) in contrast to infant baptism (paedobaptism), which some evangelicals, specifically … Continue reading
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Lectures to My Students by Charles H. Spurgeon (1875)
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At The Pastor’s College of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, founder and president, joined with other great men of God to teach many somewhat-experienced pastors more about the office of the preacher. Lectures to My Students is a three-volume … Continue reading
Understanding Four Views on Baptism John H. Armstrong, ed. (2007)
Zondervan’s Counterpoints series is the first of its kind that I have ever come across, a kind of textbook which mixes the best qualities of formal debates with the ease of a chapter book. Four authors who span the spectrum … Continue reading
Preaching that Changes Lives by Michael Fabarez (2002)
Of the three textbooks assigned to me in my seminary homiletics class, I found Living by the Book by William and Howard Hendricks to be the least useful as a seminary textbook, Between Two Worlds by John Stott to be the most … Continue reading
Between Two Worlds by John R.W. Stott (1982)
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A Christian evaluation and review of Between Two Worlds by John R.W. Stott (1982) Continue reading
The Reformers and their Stepchildren by Leonard Verduin (1964)
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The Reformers and their Stepchildren is not your classic pleasure-read. I picked it up as a classroom assignment, and “textbook” is the exact genre label I would give it. But while it was thick with facts and a drudgery at … Continue reading
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Paul Brand and Philip Yancey (1980)
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Have you ever been engrossed in a book on a subject that is completely out of your sphere of knowledge, yet you seriously could not put the book down? For example, the history of the bookshelf, the pencil, or the … Continue reading
The Story of Christianity, Volume II by Justo L. Gonzalez (1985)
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The Reformation to the Present Day During my first church history course, I found my textbook, Justo Gonzalez’s first volume of The Story of Christianity so enthralling that I actually found myself at times forgetting that it was a history … Continue reading
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya by Ruth Tucker (1983)
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A Biographical History of Christian Missions Ruth Tucker’s biographical masterpiece, From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, plates the vast and flavorful feast of missionary history so expertly that the reader, though entirely satisfied, still craves more. The only flaw of Tucker’s … Continue reading
When Missions Shapes the Mission by David Horner (2011)
You and Your Church can Reach the World I am the unofficial missions director at my local church. I have been to the mission field; I plan to return to that same mission field; I eat up anything missions. My … Continue reading