I begin by stating that Desiring God is an important book and is quite rightly regarded as a modern classic. Dr John Piper’s thesis through the pages of Desiring God and, indeed, his 29 years as Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church has been to test and apply his hypothesis, adapted from…
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Timothy Keller’s book The Reason for God: Belief in an age of Scepticism takes an in-depth look at the reasons for and against the existence of God. The book is split into two sections. The first half of the book looks at a number of typical reasons why people doubt the existence of God today,…
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Death by Love is a surprising, shocking, unusual and deeply moving read. For anyone who has ever heard Mark Driscoll (coauthor along with Gerry Breshears) preach, this is not in anyway surprising. Mark Driscoll is the Preaching and Theology Pastor for Mars Hill Church, Seattle; a church planted just over ten years ago and now…
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Of all the books I have read recently, John Owen’s A Discourse concerning the Holy Spirit has proved the most challenging and most inspirational. John Owen lived, preached, wrote and served Christ during a time of huge political and social upheaval during the middle to late seventeenth-century. Owen was a prominent figure in both the…
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