Tag Archives: Books
God’s People Will Be Readers
One of the great suppositions of the Bible is that God’s people will read. The existence of Scripture is in itself an argument for the necessity of reading. That God inspired a book indicates His desire that His servants should be readers.
Dinsdale Young, Messages for Home and Life, p. 61
Reading and Ministry
There is only one way to get any reading done, and that is to read. If one does not wish to read, he will not read — but if he does not, his ministry will be impoverished indeed.
A Good Book
A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seeds for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall: it is a window that invites us to wider horizons.
What Is the Church? (Free Book Friday)
The church is a workshop, not a dormitory, and every Christian man and woman is bound to help in the common cause.
Alexander Maclaren, Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians, p. 204
Why Read?
The supreme purpose of reading other books, is solely to increase one’s knowledge of the Book of books. To neglect the Bible for other books is fatal.
Bibliography for Study of the Ten Commandments
I am near the conclusion of a series of messages on the Ten Commandments. In preparation for the series, I created a short bibliography on the topic. It is available for you to download (including links for you to download some of the commentaries for yourself!).
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
The bibliography is not intended to be exhaustive; it merely represents the materials I used in my study. The most helpful resources for me were Dale, Farrar, McAfee, Morgan, Ryken, Mohler, and Kennedy.
A Bibliography of the Fruit of the Spirit
Here is a short bibliography on the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5. Feel free to add books in the comments section of this post.
William Barclay — Flesh and Spirit
W. Y. Fullerton — The Christly Life (Fullerton was Spurgeon’s assistant)
W. Phillip Keller — A Gardener Looks at the Fruit of the Spirit
Alexander Maclaren — Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians (chaps 7 to end), Galatians, and Philippians
The Purpose of a Good Book
The worst thing a book can do for a Christian is to leave him with the impression that he has received from it anything really good; the best it can do is to point the way to the Good he is seeking. The function of a good book is to stand like a signpost directing the reader toward the Truth and the Life…. The work of a good book is to incite the reader to moral action, to turn his eyes toward God and urge him forward. Beyond that it cannot go.
A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of Man, p. xv
I Love Books
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
Life Is Worship 