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November 14, 2009 1:07pm

I purchased and read the new Yale paperback edition of Jonathan Edward's The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 1: Freedom of the Will. Normally, each volume of the Yale Edition of Edward's Works costs over $100! but recently three of the volume were re...
Tags: jonathan edwards, on the freedom of the will, calvinism, arminianism, free will, election, predestination

July 31, 2009 5:44pm

I highly recommend reading The Unity of the Bible by Daniel P. Fuller, not only because it is #2 of John Piper's recommend reading list, but because Fuller successfully applies a unified continuum of the Covenant of Grace across the entire bible. Cov...
Tags: The Unity of the Bible, Daniel P. Fuller, John Piper, John Calvin, Institutes, Covenant Theology, Covenant of Works, Covenant of Grace

March 26, 2009 6:00pm

This month, I read John Piper's recent book, "The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright". You can download the entire book in PDF format from the Desiring God website for free too! I used to make fun of people who called John Piper a pr...
Tags: John Piper, N.T. Wright, Desiring God, The Pleasures of God, Future of Justiication, Book Review,

March 17, 2009 4:57pm

Many people have said that the Ceremonial Law and Judicial Law portions of the Mosaic Law have been abrogated but the Moral Law is still in effect. I suppose some people believe the Moral Law refers to the Ten Commandments (Decalogue) but others incl...
Tags: Westminster Confession, Moral Law, Judicial Law, Ceremonial Law, Deuteronomy, Judges, New Covenant, Law, Shadow, Pattern, Mountain, Moses, Jesus, John the Baptist, Ten Commandments, Decalogue

February 13, 2009 7:20pm

I'm currently reading The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3) by N.T. Wright. It was recommend by D.A. Carson for a scholarly analysis of Resurrection. I'm half way through this excellent book and it's s...
Tags: N.T. Wright, Resurrection of the Son of God, D.A. Carson, Homer, Plato, Odysseus, Hercules, Egyptians, Mythology, Mosaic Law, Pharisees, Sadducees, Corinthians, New Perspective on Paul

January 23, 2009 5:05pm

I don't usually syndicate postings, but this is a great exception! Justin Taylor announced that Yale has posted a free, searchable version of Jonathan Edward's Blank Bible.Edwards cut out small pages of scripture and then pasted them into a big blank...
Tags: commentaries, jonathan edwards, justin taylor, yale

February 13, 2009 7:07pm

I'm reading Paul: In Fresh Perspective by N.T. Wright. It's a short 170pg book that briefly covers N.T. Wright's conservative (and reasonably orthodox) version of the New Perspective on Paul that is different from the liberal extremes of E.P. Sanders...
Tags: N.T. Wright, Paul, New Perspective on Paul, In Fresh Perspective

July 3, 2008 5:06pm

John Calvin's, the "Institutes of the Christian Religion" is basically a bible doctrine reference book that is very similar to Wayne Grudem's "Systematic Theology." Systematic Theology books are great for learning what the bible teaches about the Mil...
Tags: Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, Commenatries

November 1, 2007 11:42am

The Trinity tends to be dogma that we hear from childhood and tend to accept without understanding how three Gods can be one God at the same time. In chapter one of John Piper's book The Pleasures of God he referenced an Unpublished Essay on the Trin...
Tags: christian hedonism, trinity, john piper, jonathan edwards

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