Introducing the 9/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Let me give you the lowdown on the asterisk up there next to the word “Gospel.” When I first stumbled across this I found many titles that I would expect to be on that list. Then I found a few that I didn’t expect….
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Introducing the 8/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Nineteen sixty-six. That was the year that was published by . Today it is September 13, 2012. Forty-six years later the book is still in print. And if the blurb on the front cover is true there over one million copies in print. That’s…
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Introducing the 7/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Dear Mr. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, You, my friend, can write! I also hear you can preach, too, but alas, I’ll never hear it this side of heaven. I will look you up when I arrive, though. Until then I must be content with your books….
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Introducing the 6/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Gimmick isn’t deragatory. It’s marketing jargon for something that makes a product stand out from competitors. Think toy in cereal box. Easy-grip handles on toothbrushes. J. D. Greear has his own gimmick. More on that in a minute. Why Another Contemporary Book on the…
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Introducing the 5/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Image credit: I’ve said it before: the Puritans are without mercy when it comes to sinners. Joseph Alleine is no exception. He opens his with this: The unconverted soul is a very cage of unclean birds (Rev xviii 2), a sepulchre full of corruption and…
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Introducing the 2/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Baxter’s is a brutal little book. Not brutal in style like Owen. But brutal in content like Owen. Baxter’s is an unflinching prosecutor of the wicked. A man who approaches their conversion and condemnation like their life depended on it. Which it does. The Quick and…
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Introducing the 1/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. The title. It is a joke. See, there is something you need to know about Matt. He’s tall. Like six five. And lanky–long in arm, long in fingers and long in legs. I knew this back when I first heard him preach via…
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What would you do if someone told you to starve your fatness of soil? Corpulence. Obesity. Plumpness. The best or richest part of something. Chew the fat. Fat pork. Fat year. Fat log of wood. Fat land. Get this into your fat head. Fat chance. George Orwell said, “There never was, I suppose, in the history…
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Yes, the gospel is making a comeback. We have the . Bands like writing songs heavy with gospel themes. And then there are the books. Lots of them. So many that when I searched Google for the best I landed on this GoodReads list: (49 at last count). Geesh, I thought, it should take me a…
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Part of a weekly series on Matthew. This week: Matthew 1:1-17. From the top. A homeless man, schemer and incestuous sexual predator. Then a prostitute and a Gentile woman. An adulterer and murderer. Devout kings and apostate rulers. Slaves and masters. Poor and rich. Men and women. This, my friends, is . It would be…
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