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Taking the Christian Life Seriously is Sinclair B. Ferguson’s book on Christian maturity and spiritual growth. Ferguson is a Scottish theologian and minister in the Reformed tradition. Ferguson discusses the reasons why spiritual maturity is important and the need to abide in Christ. For Christian maturity, Ferguson recommends, among other ...
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Creeds in the Bible is part of Concordia Publishing’s Biblical Monographs series, which was “designed to acquaint readers with current developments in Biblical interpretation.” In this book, Danker “discusses creedal confessions in Old and New Testament to increase appreciation for Biblical expressions of faith and the historic creeds of the ...
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If There’s a God, Why Are there Atheists? is theologian R.C. Sproul’s revised version of his book The Psychology of Atheism. In it, Sproul explores the psychological motives for atheism, and deals with the arguments of Freud, Marx, Feuerbach and Nietzsche. This book is divided into two sections. In the ...
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The Most Powerful Prayer on Earth is a 2004 book on Christian spirituality by Peter Horrobin. The aforementioned prayer, Horrobin says, is Jesus’s in Luke 23:34: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Here, based on Jesus’ model and teaching, Horrobin discusses the need to ...
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The Politics of Jesus is John Howard Yoder’s treatise on Jesus’ political inclinations, based on and in response to twentieth century biblical scholarship. Yoder was a Mennonite biblical scholar, theologian, and professor of theology. The 1994 version of this book is a revision and expansion of his original version, published ...
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The Screwtape Letters is Lewis’s classic collection of diabolical correspondence. In it, a senior devil gives continued advice to his protégé on how best to tempt his victim and keep him from salvation. Lewis does not propose any concrete doctrine on devils here, and this is not his point. Rather ...
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When the Game Is Over It All Goes Back in the Box is a book on life by John Ortberg, a Presbyterian pastor. His argument is thus: you will die, and when you do, you will lose all the stuff you have. Therefore, instead of focusing on things you cannot ...
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The Story of the Other Wise Man (sometimes just The Other Wise Man) is a 1896 novella by Henry Van Dyke, a professor, preacher and diplomat (He also wrote the words to “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”). This novella has become (and remains) something of a Christmas classic, up there ...
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Mere Christianity is taken from a series of radio lectures Lewis gave in the 1940s, and was originally published in three volumes. Here, Lewis lays out the basics of Christian doctrine, focusing on those things we can agree on rather than on issues that run toward the controversial. This is ...
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Driven by Eternity is John Bevere’s book on Christian, eternity-minded living. Everyone dies, and to live like you aren’t going to is simply foolish. More importantly, if the Bible is true, what we do in our lives has serious, eternal consequences. This book is about how we, as Christians, live ...