If you have read Mark Dever’s good little book on evangelism, then you have seen an excerpt from C. S. Lovett’s Evangelism Made Easy used to illustrate the overly pragmatic approach to evangelism which relies on psychological pressure and aims simply at “decisions.” Now Tim Challies has more quotes along with the illustrations from Lovett’s …
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Faith Comes by Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism, ed. C. Morgan and R. Peterson (IVP; pb., 256 pp.) I have begun looking over this book and am quite impressed with it. It must be pretty good if D. A. Carson says about it: For those who are more interested in faithful alignment with what Scripture …
I have been out of blogging for sometime due to a number of things including a sickness which has kept me down now nine days. I am hoping I am on my way out of the sickness now, and I have quite a back log of items to post- items which backed up during our …
The Duke’s Daughter: A Story of Faith and Love, By Lachlan Mackenzie Illustrated by Jeff Anderson (Christian Focus, 2008), hb., 24 pp. Ages 3-6 This is another book in the same volume as Spurgeon’s Queen Victoria’s Request. Mackenzie was a colorful Scottish preacher in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. However, this book is …
Queen Victoria’s Request: A Story of Grace and Mercy, By Charles Haddon Spurgeon Illustrated by Jeff Anderson (Christian Focus, 2008), hb., 24 pp. Ages 3-6 This is a nicely illustrated, engaging story that illustrates the gospel well. Spurgeon in his characteristic way tells a down to earth story of an “old ragged, dirty beggar” who …
In my pastoral ministry class we recently discussed John Angell James’ book, An Earnest Ministry: The Want of the Times. I have previously commented on this excellent book several times. There is so much good in this book, and I heartily commend it (and, fwiw, I do prefer to edition linked here). By “earnestness” James …
The Baptist & Reflector, the TN Baptist paper, last week ran a brief article I wrote on presenting the gospel to our children. The article grew out of an earlier post here on John Brown’s book of questions and answers on the Westminster catechism. The article does not say anything all that earth shattering. I …
In response to my post on Dever’s new evangelism book, Jeff asked what other books I had found encouraging and/or challenging on evangelism. We’re not back to full sleep yet at my house- so who knows how clearly I am thinking 🙂 -but here are a few books that come to mind. Feel free to …
Questions & Answers on the Shorter Catechism, John Brown of Haddington (Reformation Heritage Books; pb., 356 pp.) John Brown of Haddington (1722-1787) was a giant in the land. I first read of him in A. T. Robertson’s grammar where Robertson recounts the amazing story of Brown teaching himself Greek as a young man. Some years …
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Just yesterday I in the mail came my copy of Mark Dever’s new book, The Gospel & Personal Evangelism (Crossway; pb., 124 pp.). I am about a third of the way through it now and it is really good. Dever states clearly his purpose: “My prayer is that because of the time you spend reading …