Moody Press, 2011, 197 pgs. Summary: An encouraging word about the sufficiency and efficacy of God’s Word in the local church. Accessible, biblical, bold, transparent, and thoughtful. Exemplar Quotes: Let me sum up all of this in four points: God created Adam, you, and me to image Himself. To image God, we must listen to God. God’s …
Lafayette, Sovereign Grace Publisher, Inc, 2001, pg. 136. Summary: Walter Marshall (1628-1679) was a little-known Puritan/Congregationalist writer who struggled to have a sense security in his salvation because of the prevailing articulation of the gospel by the Roman Catholics, Quakers, the Anglicans, and his fellow Puritans. In attempting to halt the rise of antinomianism and social …
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Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Ad Fontes, a publication of the Davenant Institute. Quinn, Benjamin T. Christ the Way: Augustine’s Theology of Wisdom. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2022. At the end of the first paragraph of his Confessions, Augustine famously wrote, “for Thou hast made us for Thee and our heart is [restless] …
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America is caught up in a new great awakening. Students of Christian history in America will recall the revivals that swept the nation, leading to repentance and renewed spiritual fervor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ours is a similar revival, touching all of society. Scores of people confess their sins daily, renounce the ways …
Os Guinness, Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 272 pgs. Summary: Evangelical apologist Os Guinness (1941- ) has written a book laying out a framework of Christian apologetics as a form persuasive speech or rhetoric. Dr. Guinness believes that it is particularly important that we recover the art …
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The Southern Baptist Convention’s turn toward racial reconciliation gained traction from biblical teachings, not the social gospel or liberal theology, David Roach writes in a new book, The Southern Baptist Convention & Civil Rights, 1954-1995: Conservative Theology, Segregation, and Change. “Over time, leaders in the SBC showed Southern Baptists that the Bible demanded a change,” …
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