Category Archives: Books

Jürgen Moltmann

Given that I am highly influenced by other theological scholars and writers who were influenced by Jürgen Moltmann, I thought it best if I offer some resources for everyone interested in knowing more about him…

And last, but not least… here is an online book version of his most well known book on Eschatology, The Theology of Hope.

Hope you enjoy some reading and please post your comments.

In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,

The Future of Justification Series by Trevin Wax

Trevin has provided a helpful review of John Piper’s new book on Justification and N.T. Wright. Here are the 18 posts, in order, for all of you to have easy access to read through them. Enjoy and please let me know what you think!

john piper speaking tom wright

1. Some Preliminary Thoughts
2. Piper’s Introduction
3. On Controversy
4. Historical Research
5. Covenant and Law-court
6. Penal Substitution
7. Defining “Righteousness”
8. Imputation
9. What is “The Gospel” Anyway?
10. The Gospel is “Jesus is Lord”
11. Our Standing Before God
12. Justification and “The Gospel”
13. Justification By Works
14. Common Ground?
15. Judaism in the First Century
16. Self-Righteousness
17. The Righteousness of Christ
18. Piper’s Conclusion

Free Audio Book from ChristianAudio.com!

This month’s free audio book is available from Christianaudio.com. It’s called Dark Night of the Soul and it was written by St. John of the Cross. Use the coupon code DEC2007 to redeem this month’s free audiobook download from Christianaudio.com.

Dark Night of the Soul

Here is some more info about the book:

With His gentle hand He wounded my neck And caused all my senses to be suspended.

Part poetic masterpiece, part mystic treatise, The Dark Night of the Soul by 16th century Carmelite monk, St. John of the Cross, addresses the feeling of being forgotten by the Presence of the Almighty that every Christian desirous of walking more closely with God must pass through in order to learn to walk by faith and not by sight.

Spiritual persons suffer great trials…by reason…of the fear which they have of being lost on the road, thinking that all spiritual blessing is over for them and that God has abandoned them since they find no help or pleasure in good things. Then they grow weary, and endeavor to concentrate their faculties with some degree of pleasure upon some object of meditation, thinking that, when they are not doing this and yet are conscious of making an effort, they are doing nothing.

Perhaps one of the most widely recognized of the mystical writings, St. John’s classic Dark Night of the Soul is not only practical theology but a beautiful balm of healing to anyone whose heart has ever echoed the words of Christ, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”

SAGE Journal Publications – Nov. 30th is the last day!

I just wanted to let everyone know that there are still a few days left to have free access to every one of the SAGE journal publications.

You can download as many articles as you want. I’m trying my best to get as many of the following journals as I can before the November 30th cut off date…

Ecclesiology

Irish Theological Quarterly

Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

Journal of Anglican Studies

Theology and Sexuality

Hurry and sign up and download as much as you can. Enjoy!

Commentary on New Testament Use of Old Testament

I cannot believe that it is here! This book has been long awaited by many Christians and the day has finally arrived! 🙂

Commentary on New Testament Use of Old Testament

I hope that all of you will consider buying this book for your library and study of the Bible. If there was any one additional book you would want to bring with you to an Island, along with a Bible, this book would be it! Continue reading Commentary on New Testament Use of Old Testament

Reformed Baptist Academic Press

The Reformed Baptist Academic Press is very close to its launch date. I just received this word from Richard Barcellos…

The shopping cart should be up on Monday, Nov. 19. You will be able to order all issues of RBTR; Reformed Baptist Manifesto, Waldron/Barcellos; Faith, Obedience, and Justification, Waldron; Covenant Theology From Adam to Christ, Coxe/Owen; and the two new titles on the home page.

Here are the two brand new titles that they will be offering:

Covenant Children Today
Covenant Children Today: Physical or Spiritual?
By Alan Conner

TRUE CONFESSIONS
True Confessions: Baptist Documents in the Reformed Family
By James M. Renihan

[HT: Richard Barcellos]

Who is the antichrist?

in defense of israelJohn Hagee’s knew book claims that Jesus is not the Messiah of Isreal and that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah in word or deed. John Hagee has given himself over to the spirit of Antichrist and will one day be punished for eternity because he did not remain faithful, but instead rejected that Jesus is the Messiah of Israel who came to save Israel from their sins. John Hagee must be called to repentance or else his place will be in the lake of fire that burns with sulfer and brimstone.

Read the reviews at Amazon to get a better picture of what Hagee says. Or, better yet, just look at the video on my previous post and hear John Hagee condemn himself before your very eyes.

If you will read this passage out of 1st John from the New Testament, you will see that John Hagee has forfited the eternal life which he claims to have…

I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us —eternal life.” (1 John 2:21-25)

The end of the ages has come upon us. The end of days have begun. These days began when Jesus, the Messiah and representative of ethnic Israel, died for the sins of His people (both Jew and Gentile) and was raised from the dead and exalted on high as the King of kings and the Messiah of Israel. Jesus’ resurrection began the resurrection from the dead as He was the first fruits of that resurrection. This means that Jesus is now reigning over all the earth and that all who believe in Him have been raised with him in the heavenly places to reign over the entire earth with him as co-heirs of the Kingdom of God, the new heavens and the new earth! (Eph. 2)

For John Hagee to reject the Bible’s testimony that Jesus is the Messiah and, instead, embrace the very people who’s own generation of fathers nearly 2000 years ago rejected and crucified Jesus, their Messiah, is tantamount to blasphemy and destructive and damnable heresy. It is with great sorrow in my soul that I write this blog… but John Hagee has put an unfaithful and unbelieving people in the place of God’s own people, who are true Israel (the Christian Church), and he has chosen to twist the Bible into his own religion of neo-dispensationalism, which destroys the souls of all who hear and embrace it.

Pray for Pastor Hagee, that God will change his mind and his heart and bring him to the repentance and faith that he so desperately needs once again!

In Messiah and In Defense of the Jesus, who is true Israel,

John Piper’s Book is FREE to read online!

The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright

This is the free PDF of Dr. Piper’s new book that Desiring God Ministries has made available for free online! Wow! I cannot say thank you to John Piper’s ministry enough. I’m just waiting for N.T. Wright to make some of his books available for free in response to Piper’s mass distribution campaign. 😉

BTW, if you missed it or if you cannot read the book right now, here is the interview series where Dr. Piper talks about his critique of N.T. Wright and why he wrote the book: