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In Stock! Pierced for Our Transgressions

“A person’s attitude to the cross tells you much about their theology as a whole, as it is on Calvary that we see the divine response to the human predicament. Thus, the perennial attempts throughout church history to relativize and even deny the propitiatory and substitutionary nature of Christ’s sacrifice should not simply be understood [...]

Greed as Idolatry: The Origin and Meaning of a Pauline Metaphor

Author: Brian S. Rosner
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN: 9780802833747
214 pages, paperback.
Several years ago I lived near a medium-sized city that was scheduled to get a new shopping mall. The area already had two or three of the typical 1980s shoe box malls, but the new one was supposed to be as high above them as they were over [...]

Endorsements for Confronting Kingdom Challenges: A Call to Global Christians to Carry the Burden Together

Editor: Samuel T. Logan, Jr.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 9781581348637
Paperback, 251 pages
“Confronting Kingdom Challenges brings so much blessing. John 17 is alive and well and there is one grace-motivated Reformed church! These gripping first-fruits of the ministry of the World Reformed Fellowship floodlight the way ahead, opening paths for mutual encouragement among us for Christ-centered ministry that makes [...]

WTS Faculty Review: A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedmon to the Mid-Twentieth Century

Editor: James H. Trott
Publisher: Spring Arbor
ISBN: 9781581823752
804 pages, paperback
Move over Oxford Book of Christian Verse. Jim Trott has given us a far more extensive collection of Christian poetry in English, drawing even on poets beyond the British Isles. A published poet himself, Jim’s selections are broad but solid and his annotations insightful and revealing. If [...]

Staff Review: Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ

Author: Michael Horton
Publisher: Presbyterian
ISBN: 9780664231637
Paperback, 324 pages
As the third volume of Horton’s series on covenant theology, this volume is perhaps of special interest because it is most clearly focused on issues surrounding soteriology – issues such as law and gospel, imputation, justification, union with Christ, ordo solutis, etc. Consistent with the rest of the [...]

Staff Review: Raising Children God’s Way

Author: D. Martin Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN: 9780851519586
Paperback
This short book holds five sermons preached by Dr. Lloyd-Jones as part of his exposition of Ephesians. The passage covered, Ephesians 6:1-4, deals with the relationships within the family. We particularly appreciated the chapter on “Discipline and the Modern Mind.” Dr. Lloyd-Jones places the biblical [...]