Tom J. Nettles
Church Leadership & Ministry
“providence about which they write. The subjects chosen for discussion come from a variety of denominations, ethnicities, nationalities, and circumstances. Their particular contexts of tribulation cover a great diversity of ways in which God allows his servants to be assaulted. Under the power of this diversity, the united experience is one of divine faithfulness. This book demonstrates that Christian ministry and Christian life consist in suffering. Suffering is not an appendage simply to be endured or overcome but is the essence of knowing Christ and communicating the life of Christ in this world.”
History & Biography
Foreword
“The thought, theology, and pastoral style of Richard Furman come alive in this excellent work by Obbie Todd. In this fine synthesis of primary and secondary source work, Todd has successfully presented Furman as an ‘eclectic theologian.’ . . . In particular, Todd carefully crafts Furman’s understanding of the elements of truth in the moral government theory without sacrificing the doctrines of propitiation and substitution emphasized in the Charleston Association Confession of Faith. Todd shows that Furman operated under the assumption that these treatments were not mutually exclusive, but could be partially blended with some nuancing of the strict peculiarities of each. . . . An admirable model of historical theology, as well as a careful engagement with intellectual history.”
History & Biography
“Any attentive reader of Robert Murray M’Cheyne will consider him their elder in the Lord though he died very young. This is because the array of Christian graces was so profoundly balanced and proportioned, seemingly undiluted, and were nourished by a fitting use of all the biblically prescribed means for growth in grace. . . . Read the book, admire the grace of God in the man, and grow in Christlikeness.”
History & Biography
“I personally am deeply grateful for the exposure given to Hanserd Knollys and his thought. He suffered much for his conscientious commitment to biblical truth, demonstrated courage and love under the constant threat of oppression and even imprisonment, while maintaining faithfulness to his calling to preach the gospel. He is a living demonstration of the rigorous theological pilgrimage of the early Particular Baptists to an ecclesiological commitment suspected and even despised by their contemporaries. In addition, the zeal for evangelistic preaching of the gospel was of paramount importance to Knollys and should encourage us with his example prompted by an assurance arising from the sovereign grace of God in salvation. He has been too little known, but these publications are now providing a rich narrative that can edify all lovers of Christ and the gospel.”
History & Biography
“James Renihan has done excellent work in comparing church records of subscribing churches to the ecclesiological issues of the Second London Confession. The book represents the finest of careful, primary source scholarship. Any who see the importance of the period of English Dissent, Baptist history, or confessional dynamics, will benefit from careful attention to Renihan's work.”
Preaching & Worship
“Early in this book, Keeney Dickinson wrote that each preacher must ‘make the assumption that you have an understanding and a weekly practice of homiletics that could benefit from an increased saturation with prayer.’ Further along he wrote, ‘Praying is a crucial aspect of every stage of your pulpit ministry. To pause from prayer at any point in the process is to sever your preaching from God’s power.’ Using the entire corpus of Spurgeon’s sermon as vital and experienced spiritual instruction, this book relentlessly pursues the premise that the preacher must first and foremost be a man of God before he can be of any use to his people. He must be a God-saturated person in his personal life and must inject prayer into every phase of self-examination and sermon preparation if he is to be a vessel ‘unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use’ (2 Tim 2:21). Placed alongside all the needed training in theology, exegesis, and homiletics, this book will consistently remind the reader that he is a ‘minister of Christ’ and a ‘steward of the mysteries of God’ (1 Cor 4:1).”
The Booming Baritone Bell of England
Preaching & Worship
“E. G. Romine has captured the spirit, zeal, theology, and love of Charles Spurgeon in this volume. If anything showed the true passion of Spurgeon for truth and for people, it was his open-air preaching. His polemics throughout his ministry manifested his love for orthodox, evangelical, and, yes, Calvinistic truth. All of that, however, was in service of the purity of the gospel preached to the lost. This excellent work explores the theology, practice, and pedagogy of preaching in the open air. Romine has given it a charming presentation.”
The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950–2015: Volume Four
Theology
“Dr. Garrett’s broad and accurate knowledge of the relevant literature for any subject he tackles is challenging to any scholar. His accuracy and fairness of presentation is a model for us all to emulate. The breadth and variety of his subject matter marks him as truly a world-class scholar. His evangelical convictions shine through, not forming a blinding bias, but establishing a love of truth and Christ that makes him determined to be honest and fair, as well as faithful. The evangelical world should welcome this edition of the works of Dr. James Leo Garrett and will be more informed and more Christlike for the welcoming.”
The Doctrine of the Covenant of Redemption According to John Gill (1697–1771)
Theology
“Lee has shown the more profound picture of Gill’s soteriology as a fully Trinitarian, Christocentric, covenant-centered, biblical exposition of God’s eternal counsels in bringing redemption to his fallen image-bearers. He shows Gill’s work to be an exercise, not of philosophical abstraction, but in coherent biblical and theological thinking unfolding the heart of covenant theology. This work is edifying and instructive and provides a corrective perspective on the value of Gill’s careful biblical/doctrinal work in service of revealed truth.”
The Essence of the Christian Faith
Theology
“Adam Murrell has produced an excellent tool for teaching theology in the home or in classes at church. The format is easily manageable, very pleasing, and pedagogically advantageous. The combination of questions, scripture proofs, and summary statements will prove over the long haul to be highly instructive and the cumulative effect will be exposure to a profound body of divinity. Not only are his comments helpful for heightening comprehension and encouraging discussion, but they are thoughtfully tied to the whole of biblical truth.”
History & Biography
Foreword
“Jeff Straub’s work helps solve a mystery. What is the intellectual dynamic by which Christian orthodoxy surrenders the battle to liberalism and sets the subsequent agenda for an assault on the apparent victors? Straub engages the interpretive grid provided by the most informed secondary sources, an expansive knowledge, and an untiring investigation of the primary sources. The story he gives has a liveliness seldom achieved in such theologically thick narratives.”
The Making of the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message
Theology
“A. J. Smith's work on the production of the 1963 version of the Baptist Faith and Message is fascinating. It is a case study of how culture, personality, theological conviction, and theological compromise all coalesce in producing a document that frustrated Southern Baptists on the left and on the right for 37 years. Smith shows the variety of theological dynamics that led to the necessity for such a confession and uncovers from archival material the complex interpersonal relationships that played such a large part in the final form of the "Message." This is a great read for anyone interested in Baptist theological dynamics or the nature of evangelical negotiation in the twentieth century.”
Christian Living
“Ever since the church confronted Gnosticism, the reality and necessity of Christ’s humanity has been at the heart of Christian orthodoxy. Bruce Ware’s grasp and exposition of this essential doctrine contains a rigorous theological precision, communicates an attractive piety, presses the reader to investigate just how central this is to the entire spectrum of the redemptive work of the Messiah, and opens the doctrine to some thick and provocative applicatory ideas. Both ancient and right up to date, Ware’s treatment deserves a serious reading.”
The Psalms for Everyday Living
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“This daily devotional reaches back to glean from a rich source that was written in an increasingly impoverished age. Charles Spurgeon challenged the skeptical modernist impulse of his day to provide an abundant feast of biblical doctrine. . . . Now in our needy day, McKinley has harvested for us some of the most pungent ideas embedded within that work and takes us on a soul-feast through the Psalms and Spurgeon at the same time. These are short and manageable for the beginning or ending of a day; but their economy of language and syntax does not mean they lack spiritual challenge combined with sustenance. Every sentence has a definite purpose to lead us to consider the burden of a word or phrase in the biblical text.”
Christian Living
“Jay Lowder’s Transformative Time Travel taps into the biblical movement of time—objectively conceived and existentially contemplated—as an impetus to joyful, interactive, worshipful, and confident Christian living. As the biblical narrative consistently asks us to ‘remember,’ and even pictures God as ‘remembering’ his covenant, so we arrange in mind and spirit the realities of past, present, and future to achieve an ever-maturing, God-glorifying, neighbor-loving, family-embracing, church-appreciating life here with the pleasant anticipation of life hereafter.”
Waiting on the Spirit of Promise
History & Biography
“This book presents us with the life, thought, and fervent spiritual vision of Abraham Cheare. . . . His fervent, single-minded devotion to Christ, his perceptive views of the enticement to compromise (especially in the brutally oppressive persecution of the Clarendon Code years), his saturation with Scripture so that its languages and images were virtually his native tongue, his unflagging pastoral concern even during his prison years, his admonitions and scriptural hopes concerning the future of the church, [and] his attention to promote the godliness of children all present a salubrious challenge and a worthy goal for Christian spirituality and pastoral ministry. It will not take long to read it; but, hopefully, one will never get over it.”
Warfield on the Christian Life
Christian Living
“Scripture and history show that spirituality rests wholly on a foundation of revealed truth, cordially received and loved. The best theologians have always been the most profound, trustworthy promoters of vital piety and transformation of life. We look to Augustine, Anselm, Calvin, Bunyan, Edwards, and a host of Puritan pastor-theologians as determinative of the truth of this observation. Now we must include B. B. Warfield in that imposing list of those who make clear the path, not only to live by the Spirit, but to walk by the Spirit. Fred Zaspel has condensed the marvelous insight contained in The Theology of B. B. Warfield and served it up as foundational to a robust practice of piety analyzed in this present work. Zaspel has laid out both the doctrinal and exegetical expertise of Warfield in showing how seriously he pursued true worship as the summum bonum of life. From divine revelation to the imitation of the Christ and the consummation of Christian hope, the Christian finds substantive truth on his side and is assured by that truth that God himself is near, to protect, direct, and finally perfect all the sheep for whom Christ died.”
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