Posts Tagged ‘ Jonathan Edwards ’

The Essential Edwards Collection for Half Off!

Here are two videos of Doug Sweeney and Owen Strachan talking about there great new books, The Essential Edwards Collection. For those of you who want to get copies you can get all 5 books for 50% over at wtsbooks between now and aug 2nd! Click here to get yours today! Also we have read and [ READ MORE ]

Lister on How an Hour a Week Can Save Your Marriage

Own Starchen has posted a great article on his blog by Biola theologian Rob Lister on husbands leading their wives in regular conversation on the state of their marriage.  Here is a little bit of it: With that in mind, I offer the following as one practical suggestion of something that Christian husbands may wish [ READ MORE ]

Book Review: Jonathan Edwards, “The Good Life” by Strachen & Sweeney

Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney capture the heart and essence of Jonathan Edwards labor on the subject of: The Good Life. This quick short read (152 pages) is just what the church of Christ was in need of. God has used Edwards in monumental aspects to help inform, convict, and shepherd his flock for the [ READ MORE ]

Book Review; Jonathan Edwards, Lover of God by Starchen and Sweeney

Recommended Starchen and Sweeney have Written a fine introduction to the life and thought of Jonathan Edwards. this short book provides a U2 fly over of the highlights of Edwards’ life is a strong showing. Brief but engaging, I found myself looking forward to reading more. The authors serve the reader well by including application points [ READ MORE ]

Book Review; Edwards on Heaven and Hell by Starchen and Sweeney

RECOMMENDED! Starchen and Sweeney have  done the church a real service by publishing this series of books on Edwards. This volume focus on Edwards preaching and writing on the topics of heaven and hell. What makes this book so helpful is that the authors have read tons of Edwards and arranged it in an easy, [ READ MORE ]

Parenting with Eternity in View

The afterlife is real, and even in an age boasting far greater health care than Edwards’s, nothing is certain. Death can strike at any moment, and does. Christian parents must face this fact, allow it to guide their shepherding, and seize the opportunity to glorify the Lord and prepare their children to meet their Maker. -Stachan and Sweeney, in Jonathan [ READ MORE ]

Work in its Rightful Place

The eschatological mind-set also refigures our conception of work. All work, as Martin Luther so helpfully emphasized, is God’s work. But our earthly vocations will one day end. We will serve the Lord in heaven, but all our career advances and vocational ambitions will soon lie beside us in the grave. We should esteem work, [ READ MORE ]

Jonathan Edwards: Thoughts For the Day

The way to heaven is a heavenly life. We must be traveling towards heaven in a way of imitation of those that are in heaven, in imitation of the saints or angels therein, in their holy employments, in their way of spending their time in loving, adoring, serving, and praising God and the Lamb. This [ READ MORE ]

Jonathan Edwards: Thoughts For the Day

A true sense of the divine and superlative excellency of the things of religion; a real sense of the excellency of God, and Jesus Christ, and of the work of redemption, and the ways and works of God revealed in the gospel. There is a divine and superlative glory in these things; an excellency that [ READ MORE ]

Jonathan Edwards: Thoughts For the Day

For if we love Him not for His own sake, but for something else, then our love is not terminated on Him, but on something else, as its ultimate object….If we love not God because He is what He s, but only because He is profitable to us, in truth we love Him not at [ READ MORE ]

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