jonathan edwards

Book Review: Why God Created the World

I have good friends, the kinds of friends that will recommend good books and occasionally mail me a book without solicitation. This month represents the first time that a friend mailed me a book and assigned me homework.  The enclosed note: “read this and write a review.” Well, I have completed the reading part and …

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Book Review: Think

For the Month of October, 2011,  Think is available as a free audio download at www.christianaudio.com. John Piper is a staple in the libraries of many Christians.  In fact, his writings have had a profound impact on the face of evangelicalism in America over the past twenty years.  It is not surprising, then, that Piper …

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How Long Should You Preach?

How long should a sermon be?  I write this because after our Easter service and my 15 minute sermon, many folks in our congregation commented that they thought I was just getting started when I gave the invitation.  One lady even stopped me and said, “Great sermon, but just one thing…it was too short.”  Honestly, …

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Book Review: The Rise of Evangelicalism

The Rise of Evangelicalism by Mark Noll chronicles the beginnings of evangelical Christianity during the first Great Awakening in the Eighteenth Century through the ministries of Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, William Wilberforce, and others. Noll does a great job of objectively identifying both the spiritual issues that led to great outpourings …

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Dig in the Word

“You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure. God hath spoken much to you in the Scripture; labor to understand as much of what he saith as you can. God hath made …

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Book Review: Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word

If you are looking for something to spend part of your free $50 gift certificate from WTSBOOKS on, let me suggest a new book just published in May,  Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word, by Douglas A. Sweeney.  Sweeney is himself an expert on Edwards and on The New England Theology that was …

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Monday Musings

“If a minister has light without heat and entertains his [hearers] with learned discourses, without a savour of the power of godliness, or any appearance of fervency of spirit, and zeal for God and the good of souls, he may gratify itching ears, and fill the heads of his people with empty notions; but it …

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