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It is time for those end of the year lists to start coming out. Keeping in the tradition that I started last year , I wanted to share the top ten books that I read this year. Two opening words. First, It is important to say again that these books did not necessarily come out in 2015. Merely, these...

Following Rob Bell: The Edges of Orthodoxy and the Center of the Zeitgeist This past Sunday, Kent Dobson, successor at Rob Bell's famous Mars Hill Bible Church, stepped down as teaching pastor. He opened his announcement/sermon by reading the Scriptural story which gives name to the church, the...

This is the time of year to express thanks, and it occurs to me that of the many things for which I am grateful to God, great Christian books are high among them. This fall marks the 25th anniversary of my conversion by the grace of Christ, and I think especially of books that gave me a strong...

In September 1896, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield opened the academic year at Princeton Theological Seminary with an address titled "Christian Supernaturalism." [1] His intent was to place his finger on the decisive issue of his generation with respect to Christianity and the culture: the secular...

I recently attended a college ministry event in which a number of students gave testimonies about how their lives have been impacted. As is so often the case, it was enormously encouraging and spoke of great saving fruit arising from that campus labor. I was struck, however, by a statement made by...

I have a work in progress, defending the Reformed doctrine of justification by faith alone. In this work I am trying to make it as pastoral as possible for the average layman in the church to benefit from in his mind and heart. Some treatments can be a little dry, even if they are solid. I hope...

We often read today of a "gospel-centered" TM ministry as opposed to a legalistic or otherwise sub-Christian approach to salvation. When used in this trade-marked sense, "gospel-centered" usually means that we must exclusively present God's forgiveness for sinners through faith alone in the blood...

J.I. Packer is undoubtedly one of the great theologians of our age. His books are, quite simply, outstanding. I've never met him. I heard him speak once for an hour and 40 minutes and it felt like a lot longer; but the man is a giant. However, when you see that J.I. Packer has written a foreword to...

My dear friends: This coming Sunday morning, I plan on mentioning C. S. Lewis's essay on "The Inner Ring." I would encourage you to read it (or reread it as the case may be). You can find it on the internet here ; you can also find it in his book, The Weight of Glory . The ten or so minutes that...

This is the fifth post in a twelve-part series on the current Christological confusion taking root in China's emerging Reformed community (see part 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 ). Confusing Claims About Christ's Humanity Turning to the confusion in East Asia, our brother affirms "the Son came into the world...