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Stephen J. Nichols. Heaven on Earth: Capturing Jonathan Edwards’s Vision of Living in Between. Crossway, 2006. 144 pp.
Introduction
In heaven we will enjoy perfect, unbroken fellowship with the Triune God. We will relish the glory of God. We will savor the sweetness of Christ. We will have perfect fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Why not start now?
In heaven, bickering, complaining, and acts of injustice will all have fallen away. Peace and harmony and justice will be the order. We will love God perfectly. We will even love all our brothers and sisters in Christ perfectly. So why not begin now? There’s no reason not to. In fact, there’s every reason in the world to do so. . . .
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Mark A. Weathers. How to Pray for Your Wife: A 31-Day Guide. Crossway, 2006. 158 pp.
Introduction
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
—Genesis 2:24
I see a unique tree every day while traveling to the church building where I minister. It’s a dogwood, and for the majority of the year it looks like any other dogwood in the southeast—slender divided trunk with a bushy green top. But this past spring it caught me off guard as it was coming into full bloom. The tree boasted of both white and pink blossoms intermingled throughout its branches.
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John Piper. God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself. Crossway, 2005. 192 pp.
What the World Needs Most: The Gospel’s Greatest Gift—God
Today, as in every generation, it is stunning to watch the shift away from God as the all-satisfying gift of God’s love. It is stunning how seldom God himself is proclaimed as the greatest gift of the gospel. But the Bible teaches that the best and final gift of God’s love is the enjoyment of God’s beauty. “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple” (Ps. 27:4).
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Andreas Kostenberger & David Jones. God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation. Crossway, 2004. 448 pp.
Summary of Findings
We have come to the end of our discussion, and it is now time to briefly summarize the findings of our study of the biblical teaching regarding marriage, the family, and related subjects. At the outset, we noted that for the first time in its history, Western civilization is confronted with the need to define the meaning of the terms “marriage” and “family.” The cultural crisis that rages concerning the definitions of these terms was seen to be symptomatic of an underlying spiritual crisis that gnaws at the foundations of our once-shared societal values.
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John Piper & Justin Taylor, eds. Suffering and the Sovereignty of God. Crossway, 2006. 256 pp.
Why God Appoints Suffering for His Servants
Why did God appoint for Paul to suffer so much as the prototype of the frontier missionary? He is sovereign. As every child knows he could toss Satan into the pit today if he wanted to and all his terrorizing of the church would be over. But God wills that the mission of the church advance through storm and suffering. What are the reasons? I will mention six.
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John Piper. What Jesus Demands from the World. Crossway, 2006. 400 pp.
Introduction
The aim of this book is God-glorifying obedience to Jesus. To that end I am seeking to obey Jesus’ last command: Make disciples of all nations . . . teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you (Matt. 28:19-20). Jesus final command was to teach all his commandments.
The Impossible Final Command
Actually, the final command was more precise than that. He did not say, Teach them all my commandments. He said, Teach them to observe all my commandments. You can teach a parrot all of Jesus commandments. But you cannot teach a parrot to observe them. Parrots will not repent, and worship Jesus, and lay up treasures in heaven, and love their enemies, and go out like sheep in the midst of wolves to herald the kingdom of God.
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John Ensor. The Great Work of the Gospel: How We Experience God’s Grace. Crossway, 2006. 192 pp.
The washing away of shame and guilt is properly the experience of God’s Great Work that accompanies our faith in Christ. . . .
Experiencing Forgiveness
The punishment that Christ bore on our behalf—a complete punishment for all our sins and a just punishment for each of them—cleared the way for the free flow of God’s mercy. In terms of our human experience, putting our faith in Christ and his Great Work on the cross means that we experience this mercy as a clean conscience and a bold, expectant confidence in drawing near to God. That too is part of the Great Work. The cross and our trust in the cross are akin to a gate being opened and a gate being entered. . . .
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Wayne Grudem. Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? Crossway, 2006. 272 pp.
Introduction
I am concerned that evangelical feminism (also called “egalitarianism”) has become a new path by which evangelicals are being drawn into theological liberalism.
When I use the phrase “theological liberalism” I mean a system of thinking that denies the complete truthfulness of the Bible as the Word of God and denies the unique and absolute authority of the Bible in our lives.
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Bryan A. Follis. Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer. Crossway 2006. 208 pp.
Is Schaeffer Still Relevant?
The question now arises, given the fundamental changes in cultural and intellectual attitudes over recent years, as to whether apologetics (with its stress on rationality) has a meaningful part to play in evangelizing people in a postmodern age. . . .
What are relevant to our discussion are the differences in approach and outlook brought about by postmodernism and how these changes impact Christian witness in general and apologetics in particular. . . .
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J. Ligon Duncan & Susan Hunt. Women’s Ministry in the Local Church. Crossway, 2006. 176 pp.
A Biblical Analysis of Women’s Vital Role in the Church
The purpose of this book is to strengthen Christ’s Church by presenting a practical theology of women’s ministry in the local church.
The book will answer five fundamental questions:
- Why should a church have a women’s ministry–what is the biblical apologetic?
- Who is responsible for the women’s ministry in a church?
- How does a women’s ministry relate to the other ministries in a church?
- What are the tasks of a women’s ministry?
- How does a church implement a biblical approach to women’s ministry?
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