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What Is a Healthy Church Member?
by Thabiti M. Anyabwile
This is a small but powerful book that I recommended to our church recently. It is packed with truth for those who wish to effectively fulfill their role in God’s church.
The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God’s Delight in Being God
by John Piper
Valley of Vision, A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
Don’t Waste Your Life
By John Piper
The Grand Weaver,
by Ravi Zacharias
Simply Jesus and You: Experience His Presence and His Purpose,
by Joseph M. Stowell
To Be or Not to Be a Church Member, That Is the Question!
by Wayne Mack
Humility: True Greatness
by C. J. Mahaney
For someone who does not consider himself much of a worrier, I was surprised to find that this book offered me a lot to think about; it offered me a challenge to see where (not if) I worry. And as it offered the biblical diagnosis, it offered also the biblical cure.
Read the whole review at Discerning Reader
“The ESV Study Bible is the finest study tool I have seen in fifty years of Bible teaching. The notes, articles, maps, and illustrations are all of the highest quality. It is a great achievement!” –Jerry Bridges
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Stand: A Call for the Endurance of the Saints –
A book compiled from the messages of the Desiring God 2007 National Conference which includes the teaching of John Piper, John MacArthur, Jerry Bridges, Randy Alcorn and Helen Roseveare.
Stand will awaken and solidify rugged, Christ-exalting endurance in people who are weary in their faith journey or who simply long to remain firm to the end. And for everyone who dreams of a Christian culture-shift from brief trial runs to lifelong commitments, John Piper and Justin Taylor’s latest offering is a watershed that will serve to seal that vision in people’s minds and hearts.
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You can also download a free PDF of this book or order on the DesiringGod.org site by clicking here.
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. –John Owen
I’ll be speaking tomorrow morning of the enemy of every follower of Christ, sin. This is a good time to share this timeless quote from John Owen’s writing and at the same time recommend you read his three books compiled in one volume entitled Overcoming Sin And Temptation.
Tim Challies October drawing is for one case (Forty copies!) of The Truth of the Cross by R.C. Sproul along with a copy of Jesus the Evangelist by Richard Phillips. Click the image to enter–doing so also gives me another entry. That would be a good thing.
Al Mohler checks in with Some Thoughts on the Reading of Books
Tim Challies shares 10 Tips to Read More and Read Better.
I’ve summarized–go read the whole thing.
Some time ago I set up a wiki (get one for yourself for free at pbwiki.com) for our family to use to share useful information such as favorite recipes, gift ideas or items needed when mom shops next week. I suggested early this year that we keep on the wiki a running list of books we’ve read, mainly as motivation (for me) to read more–a little peer pressure and accountability in this area is a good thing. Well, so far this year my wife Carolyn is showing me up. On her list are thirty-one books and one of them is the Bible. She’s kinda competitive that way.
Reading a Spurgeon biography last night and came on this quote. Spurgeon once commented…
“I was reading some time ago,” he said on one occasion, “an article in a newspaper, very much in my praise. It always makes me feel sad—so sad that I could cry—if ever I see anything praising me; it breaks my heart; I feel I do not deserve it, and then I say, ‘Now I must try to be better, so that I may deserve it.’ If the world abuses me, I am a match for that; I begin to like it. It may fire all its big guns at me and I will not return a solitary shot, but just store them up, and grow rich upon the old iron.”
From: Charles Haddon Spurgeon, A Biography, By W. Y. Fullerton, Chapter 5
Reading…
Overcoming Sin and Temptation
Three Classic Works by John Owen
This is for all the pastors, would-be pastors in my family and those pastor friends of mine.
A few months ago C.J. Mahaney spoke at the Together for the Gospel conference along with several other pastors such as Ligon Duncan, John MacArthur, Albert Mohler, R.C. Sproul, Mark Dever and John Piper. According to Justin Taylor “the sessions from the conference are being compiled into Preaching the Cross, a book that will be published by Crossway in 2007.”
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For those who enjoy audio books, good sermons and free stuff ChristianAudio.com has just what you want. I’ve been enjoying some of their free downloadable audio books for a few months now and the November 2006 download is C.H. Spurgeon’s All of Grace. Registration is required and you’ll need to use the coupon code NOV2006 at checkout–no credit card required.
The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online is now available and appears to be a complete resource of the writings of Johnathan Edwards. Here’s the news release:
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Reading…
A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
by D. A. Carson
Reading…
Raising Kids for True Greatness: Redefine Success for You and Your Child
by Tim Kimmel
From Power Through Prayer by Edward M. Bounds, chapter 4, Tendencies to be Avoided.
It is impossible for the preacher to keep his spirit in harmony with the divine nature of his high calling without much prayer. That the preacher by dint of duty and laborious fidelity to the work and routine of the ministry can keep himself in trim and fitness is a serious mistake. Even sermon-making, incessant and taxing as an art, as a duty, as a work, or as a pleasure, will engross and harden, will estrange the heart, by neglect of prayer, from God. The scientist loses God in nature. The preacher may lose God in his sermon.
Kevin is a husband, dad of eight, pastor and blogger from beautiful Higgins Lake, Michigan read more or Email Kevin
