Fighting Sin(ful Habits)

 Tim Chester's You Can Change is a great help for the Christian battling sin and sinful habits.  For me, it was sort of like all of my favorite biblical counseling books in one.  It is theologically sound, biblical, and very practical for the daily struggle we call sanctification.  To be honest, as I think about it again, …

Towards Spiritual Maturity (William Still)

 William Still was an excellent Scottish preacher who died in 1997.  I only recently ran across this man's work, so I can't yet comment more than to say I enjoyed his book, Towards Spiritual Maturity (Ross-Shire: Christian Focus, 2010).  This book is brief, clear, to the point, and very affordable.  Here's one of my favorite quotes from …

Mortification

Though I'm not a big fan of archaic language, I love the old theological term "mortification."  I've mentioned this before and I think it is important to keep coming back to: putting to death the sin that is still in us (i.e. Rom 8.13b).  Along these lines, John Owen's discussions of mortification are always helpful.  …

Sinful Responses to Sin

Update: In recent weeks (Nov-Dec 2011) Mark Driscoll has gone on record with some explicit claims of continuing revelation. We appreciate Driscoll's ability to formulate and teach a few aspects of Reformed theology quite well, but we do not in any way agree with the notion that God continues to reveal himself to us apart …

Sanctification and Digging Graves

One of the old-school theological "parts" of sanctification is mortification. We really need to get that word (or at least the concept!) back into our every day Christian speech. Mortification means the killing of the Christian's sinful nature. The Westminster Standards use the term three times (WCF 6.5, 13.1, & WLC 167); the Heidelberg uses …