Puritan Treasures for Today

  I recently purchased three books from Reformation Heritage's series called "Puritan Treasures for Today."  I'm familiar with these authors (Greenhill, Swinnock, and Flavel), so I was interested to see if these books are advertised correctly: are they readable for today's average Christian?  In a word, and having read two of the three, yes, they are …

Operation Gravedigger: Bringing Down the Church

This is one outstanding book: Os Guinness' The Last Christian on Earth (formerly published as The Gravedigger File).  The book is something like Screwtape Letters plus David Wells plus Christless Christianity plus William Willimon.  With his usually sharp and penetrating style, Guinness uses a series of fictional email memos to show how the Western church …

Calling a Worldly Church to Holiness

 This is a great book: R. Kent Hughes, Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life.  Read these quotes, then put this on your "to read for 2011" list. "...In contemporary evangelicalism there has been a deficiency of cultural awareness and a resulting lack of discernment regarding how the world has overwhelmed the thinking …

Do Not Love the World… (Bernard)

Around the year 1129 AD St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote a letter to Alexander, a bishop who was known for his greed and injustice.  Among other things, Bernard addressed Alexander's greed.  This is worth thinking about today.   He said, "[I exhort you] lovingly not to take the glory of the world seriously as something …

You Are The Treasure That I Seek

   Here is another one of those short, to the point, and solid devotional type books that is good for any Christian to read: You Are the Treasure That I Seek: But There's A Lot of Cool Stuff Out There, Lord! by Greg Dutcher.  It is just over 100 pages (plus appendix A and B) and …