Douglas A. Sweeney

Expository Reflections on the Gospels, Volume 3

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This learned, profound, utterly practical commentary is a great model for preachers of the Gospel of Mark. It will help them to practice faithful biblical exegesis, goad them to keep their teaching focused on Jesus, and thereby encourage those who listen to their sermons to ‘arise and follow the Son.’ O’Donnell here reminds you why you answered God’s call to be a minister of the Word and supports you in your efforts to unpack this precious book.”

Feasting on Hope

Christian Living

“Our Father has spread a table in the wilderness for us. His Son Jesus feeds us as we join him at the meal. And the Spirit of God unites us in his love as we eat. Hannah Miller King's apt reminder of these supernatural blessings is a word spoken in season. The Lord's Supper does not eradicate our pain and anxiety. But the communion it provides us with the Lord and one another gives us grace and peace now and bright hope for the day when God will make all things new and fulfill our every longing. Please join God's family as we feast.”

Free Will

Philosophy

“Peter Jung is one of the most important Korean scholars at work on Jonathan Edwards and his thought. And this monograph on Edwards and the will is a great example of Jung's scholarly acumen. It is a marvelous accomplishment that deserves a wide reading.”

Glimpses of Another Land

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Eric Miller is quickly becoming one of the best evangelical cultural critics at work among us today. Always timely, never trendy, usually salty, never cynical, his essays have a winsome way of delighting us in the good, drawing us out of ourselves in longing for a better, more humane and divine mode of living in the world . . . May his tribe increase and find a way of loving the rest of us in. May they help us keep our hope alive.”

God's Grand Design

Christian Living

“This is an edifying book on a most edifying person, one who became the most important pastor in all of American history. By focusing our attention on what mattered most to Edwards—authentic Christian living that derives from God’s grace and reflects God’s glory—Sean Lucas has written a book that can draw you nearer to God, even make you a better person. Good theology, well presented, leads to passionate, godly piety. Edwards and Lucas know this well. I pray that you will know it too.”

Gospel Witness through the Ages

Evangelism & Missions

“Those of us involved in Christian higher education have needed a learned, faithful, general history of Christian gospel witness for quite some time. Kudos to David Gustafson for meeting the need so well. His prose is crystal clear, his chapters are reliable, his judgments fair-minded and theologically edifying. This is now the go-to book on the subject.”

Histories and Fallacies

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This is a very good book, full of historiographical wisdom. I recommend it strongly as a sure and encouraging guide to budding historians befuddled by the so-called ‘history wars,’ and to anyone who is interested in the challenges attending those who represent the history of Christian thought.”

How God Used R.A. Torrey

History & Biography

“R.A. Torrey (1856-1928) was one of the most important evangelical leaders most Christians have forgotten. This collection of his sermons serves as a great introduction to his life and ministry. History buffs will love the never-before-printed autobiography featured in the appendix. All in all, these jewels shine the bright light of Christ into our very different world—a world that stands in desperate need of Torrey's loving, holy boldness and evangelistic zeal.”

In Defense of the Eschaton

Apologetics

“"This marvelous collection of apologetic essays will encourage faith in Christ even as it sharpens the mind.”

In Your Light We See Light

Theology

“Paul Uyen has done a great service by offering a fully Trinitarian theology of God’s illumination of those he calls to faith in Jesus. What a privilege and blessing is communion with the Lord. And what a blessing to be reminded in this marvelous monograph of the ways in which God’s people are enabled to walk in the light of God himself in Christ by the power of the Spirit.”

Jonathan Edwards among the Theologians

Theology

“Oliver Crisp is leading the way among constructive theologians who are engaging Jonathan Edwards as a serious interlocutor. This book showcases Crisp at his finest, never parroting Edwards's teaching but, rather, following his model of occasional, contextual, and critical adaptation of the insights of the past in relation to the challenges we face in the present. Edwards still has much to offer even the most contemporary theologians.”

Jonathan Edwards's Bible

Theology

“Jonathan Edwards' biblical scholarship is finally getting a bit of the attention it deserves. . . . In Nichols' able hands, this exegesis and its significance for Christian thought today nearly leap off the page. Recommended to Edwards scholars and to Christian theologians teaching Scripture in the church.”

Justification and the Churches

Theology

“Gerald Hiestand is the consummate pastor theologian, and Justification and the Churches is an ideal example of what he calls 'ecclesial theology'—theology done from and for the church. Those of us who long for the unity of the church will appreciate and make good use of this book. It makes controversial claims, but it does so thoughtfully and with an abundance of divine wisdom and love. I hope it inspires many other budding pastor theologians to assume responsibility for leading God's people in serious discipleship.”

Life

Children & Youth

“The supreme value of reading Edwards is that we are ushered into a universe brimming with beauty,’ writes Ortlund. I couldn’t agree more. And one would be hard-pressed to find a more engaging introduction to this universe for the church. Even the final chapter, on ways in which we should not follow Edwards, offers crucial Christian wisdom. Ortlund’s criticisms of Edwards hit the mark—and deserve consideration by Edwards’s growing number of fans. I plan to use them with my seminary students in years to come. Please peruse this beautiful book. It’s good for the soul.”

Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith

Theology

“Todd Hains has written an outstanding book about Luther's regular use of the analogy of faith when interpreting Holy Scripture. I commend this project highly. It makes a timely contribution to our understanding of both Luther's biblical exegesis and Luther's catholic, or traditional, approach to inculcating the Christian faith.”

Mixed Blessings

Theology

“Anyone interested in the church’s great tradition and its bearing on our ecumenical work will want to read this book. It offers critical reflection on some of the most important thinkers in the history of the church and brims with insight on how best to utilize their teaching as we work to manifest our churches’ unity in Christ. It makes a wonderful addition to the Pro Ecclesia Series and will surely prove an unmixed blessing to all who pray that God’s people may be one.”

New England Dogmatics

Theology

“Maltby Gelston is one of the most important New Divinity scholars about whom most have never heard—primarily because of his book of questions and answers in divinity written for Jonathan Edwards, Jr., his pastoral mentor. This material, published here for the very first time, opens a whole new window onto the world of the Edwardseans, reminding us of a time and place quite different from our own, where the details of Christian doctrine were matters of life and death or, in the words of Harriet Beecher Stowe, ‘all was profoundly real and vital,—a foundation on which actual life was based with intensest earnestness.’”

On Classical Trinitarianism

Theology

“This is a marvelous primer on the church's historic understanding of the Trinity. Its topics and authors have been very well chosen. May God use it to renew our discipleship today, growing everyone who reads it in the knowledge and love of God.”

Pastoral Care in the Protestant Tradition

History & Biography

Afterword

(wrote the afterword)

Pocket History of the Church

History & Biography

“Professor Bingham's Pocket History of the Church is well informed and clearly written, a wonderful introduction to the history of Christianity. Specialists will debate the finer points of the story that he tells. But this is now the best survey of church history that one can read in a single sitting.”