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One of the most rewarding things about working at Westminster Bookstore is seeing the quality of books our customers are most excited about. As an example, here are the five books you purchased most often in the past month:
1. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
2. Do Hard Things by Alex & Brett Harris
3. When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage by Dave Harvey
4. The Doctrine of the Christian Life (A Theology of Lordship) by John Frame
5. Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate by Jerry Bridges
An Introduction to God is the Gospel (DVD)
God is the Gospel (Study Guide to the DVD)
by John Piper
This DVD and its companion Study Guide explore the ultimate good of the good news. Each of these six 30-minute DVD teachings by John Piper equip you to guide your small group, church, students, or family in embracing God as the gospel in every aspect of life.
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (DVD)
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (Study Guide)
Each of Piper’s six 30-minute DVD presentations & the coordinated Study Guide will equip Sunday school teachers, small group leaders, Christian educators, and parents in directing people’s understanding of these topics so that viewers will learn to behold and delight in Jesus more than anything this world has to offer.
Read by author Tedd Tripp
Praise for the print version:
Staff Pick: “This is simply the best book on parenting that I have ever read. It is foundational to understanding the nature of Biblical discipline and the parental responsibility before God. Neither is this book ‘merely theory’—the latter chapters cover ‘training objectives’ and ‘procedures’ for various age levels.”
Jim Weidenaar, Westminster Bookstore Staff
See all of Jim’s Staff Picks
Faculty Review: “Tedd Tripp knows what he is talking about and who he is talking to. He knows children, he knows parents . . . and he knows the ways of God. This book teaches you what your goals should be and how to pursue these ends practically. It teaches you how to talk to your children and what to talk about. It will inspire you to become a different kind of parent. This is a masterful Book.”
Dr. David Powlison, Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary and author of Seeing with New Eyes.
Faculty Review: “Dr. Tripp’s material on parenting is the clearest, most biblically framed, and most helpful that I have ever encountered. It has become the backbone of my own parenting. I am not alone, either. His seminar tapes are by far the most frequently requested biblical teaching material among my students, counselees, and friends.”
Dr. Ed Welch, Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary and author of Depression: A Stubborn Darkness.
Three new cover styles for the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible have just arrived. Westminster Bookstore sells all ESV Bibles every day at 40% off–the lowest price on the web!
Personal Size Reference TruTone Bible (Navy/Khaki/Pearl, Horizon Design)
Thinline TruTone Bible (Brick, Crossroads Design)
Personal Size Reference TruTone Bible (Forest/Tan, Trail Design)
by Thabiti M. Anabwile
Crossway/Good News
Paperback, 128 pages
“This book provides an excellent and much-needed focus on the individual church member.”
- R. C. Sproul, Chairman and President, Ligonier Ministries; Senior Minister of Preaching and Teaching, Saint Andrews Chapel, Sanford, Florida
“Given the state of so many of our churches today, this book arrives not a moment too soon.”
- R. Albert Mohler Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“In an era when Christians seem confused about what kind of community the church ought to be, here’s a helpful handbook outlining the church’s true biblical priorities, especially as they apply to individual church members.”
- John MacArthur, President, Grace to You
When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy (DVD)
by John Piper
Crossway Books
Six 30-minute DVD sessions with John Piper instruct groups in obtaining proper affections for God so that they will fight to find their delight in Christ.
Designed to be used with the Study Guide (see below).
When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy (Study Guide)
by John Piper
Crossway, 128 pages
This study guide—focused on Piper’s powerful teaching on DVD—explores the necessity and strategies of delighting in Christ in an eight-session, guided group study. Each guide features helps for reflection, penetrating questions, and five daily assignments per week. Along with the DVD, it is an ideal package that will lead groups of any size in the all-important fight for joy.
Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life
by Colin Duriez
Crossway, 240 pages
Filling an important void in Schaeffer literature, this full-length biography illuminates the complex journey of one whose relentless passion for truth, reality, a full-orbed faith, and meeting the needs of people made him not just a giant within evangelicalism but a shining example of what every Christian in every generation strives after: An Authentic Life lived to the glory of God.
Experiencing the Truth: Bringing the Reformation to the African-American Church
Edited by Anthony Carter
Crossway, 192 Pages
“Gives great acclamation to black church worship, black preaching, and the black Christian experience, rightly showing the strength of Reformed theology for these traditions. I hope Experiencing the Truth will be an impetus to move the African-American church from the self-deprecating darkness of theological liberalism into the divinely nourishing light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
- Eric C. Redmond, author, Where Are All the Brothers? Straight Answers to Men’s Questions about the Church
Affirming the Apostles’ Creed
by J. I. Packer
Crossway, 160 pages
In Affirming the Apostles’ Creed (an excerpt from Growing in Christ), noted Bible scholar and author J. I. Packer explains the meaning and implications of each phrase of this creed. Both theologically sound and practical, this book provides Christians with a starting point for understanding and applying the basic tenets of Christianity. Each concise chapter serves as an invitation to dive further into the creed—and as a result, into the essentials of the Christian faith—by concluding with discussion questions and Bible passages for further study.
One of the most rewarding things about working at Westminster Bookstore is seeing the quality of books our customers are most excited about. As an example, here are the five books you purchased most often in the past month:
1. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
2. Do Hard Things by Alex & Brett Harris
3. A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes: Essays and Analysis edited by David Hall and Peter Lillback
4. Resurrection and Eschatology: Theology in Service to the Church: Essays in Honor of Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. edited by Lane Tipton and Jeffrey Waddington
5. The Doctrine of the Christian Life by John Frame
Read this comprehensive review by WTSBooks customer Rae Whitlock. Rae gives his impressions of the layout/text, binding, size, and translation of the ESV Personal Size Reference Bible (Genuine Leather).
(Photo by Rae Whitlock - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License)
Westminster Bookstore is pleased to announce that now you will be able to find books and other resources having to do with the African-American church, theology, and history in one convenient place: our new “African-American Church” category (found under the Church History heading in the category menu at the left of our web store pages).
Here are just a few of the titles featured there:
