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One of the most important things you can do as a Christian is to know the attributes of God, since all the essential doctrines of the Faith flow from these important characteristics. We are magnifying who and what God is! As the church grapples with new and innovating ways to understand God’s nature, a flawed concept of God threatens to reduce not only the awe and majesty of the Almighty, but also the clear and crucial ontological (being) distinction between the Creator and creation, the eternal and temporal, and the infinite and finite. Open Theism (aka Free Will Theism, Neotheism, or ...

In Greek, the root of “heretic” is αἱρέω / αἵρεσις, originally meaning “to choose” and then a choice, school, or party—a neutral term for a philosophical camp. Hellenistic Jews (like Josephus) use αἵρεσις for religious sects such as Pharisees and Sadducees. In the New Testament the word shifts: in Acts it can still mean “sect,” but in Paul’s lists it means factions that tear the church, and αἱρετικός (Titus 3:10) is the factious man who insists on his own line. In the 2nd–4th centuries, as the church confronts Gnostics, Marcionites, Arians, ...

Where does the concept of reincarnation come from?Most Christians believe it is a Hindu or New Age belief, but the truth is that reincarnation has been in the Bible all this time. Yet many Christians have been blinded to it, and indoctrinated to reject it, due to the Nicaean Council’s manipulations of the Bible edits. But Jesus was Jewish, taught reincarnation, and had discussions about reincarnation with his disciples, proving it has always been a core Jewish belief. Christians are grafted into the covenants of Israel and the Jewish people. The author proves that it was covered up under ...

The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch): A Prophetic Examination Tested by Scripture and Fulfilled in Jesus Christ is not a work of speculation or hidden knowledge. It is a Scripture-ruled investigation that places Enoch where it belongs: under the judgment of the Bible, not above it.

Mini-liturgies are small, repeated worship scripts—predictable orders combined with repeated postures and phrases—that people come to feel are “how church is done,” even when no official prayer book exists. They have three basic ingredients: repetition (the same sequence week after week, like “stand to sing, sit, stand for reading, sit for sermon”), a script-like feel (“this is just how we do church,” so breaking it feels wrong), and implicit spiritual weight (worship feels “off” if the pattern isn’t followed). These show up across virtually all traditions: low-church ...

Widely recognized as a pillar of 20th-century evangelicalism, J. I. Packer has had a profound impact on millions of Christians living today. Now in his late eighties, Packer still exerts an enormous influence on pastors and laypeople around the world through his many books, articles, and recorded lectures—works that overflow with spiritual wisdom related to the Christian life. In the latest addition to Crossway’s growing Theologians on the Christian Life series, well-known pastor Sam Storms examines Packer’s legacy when it comes to the Christian and sanctification.

What if the saints weren’t unreachable icons—but guides for the modern soul? In this provocative and poetic spiritual companion, philosopher and author George Le Savant reimagines the lives of Catholic saints as deeply modern case studies in how to live, suffer, forgive, rebel, and love in a distracted world. Blending philosophical reflection, historical biography, and deeply personal insight, How the Saints Can Change Your Life offers a fresh look at saints like Thérèse of Lisieux, Padre Pio, Joan of Arc, St. Mary, St. Dominic, St.

After the death of Charles Senior, his son, also named Charles, compiled his father’s personal letters into a lesser-known book, which you are about to have the pleasure of listening to. This volume gives a unique perspective into the personal life of the Prince of Preachers. It shows that while he walked in revival his entire life, he was a man like any other. He was a man that had a family he dearly loved, got angry when people twisted his words, was often wracked with sickness and pain, and above all, loved Jesus.

This book is a compact, historically anchored argument that treats Sunday School less as a neutral “church activity” and more as a modern institution with a theology baked into its machinery. It opens with a brief foreword framing the piece as a continuation of (and response to) ongoing criticism of the Old School Baptist position. In the first movement, Sunday School is defined in its modern, recognizable form—an age-graded, volunteer-run “learning hour”—but its origins are located in late–late-18th-century social conditions: industrial poverty, child labor, and a push for ...

The book argues that high-church pageantry (vestments, incense, processions, chant) and evangelical worship bands (lights, platforms, curated song-sets) are really two styles of the same thing: religious theater. Both center a visible “front” team, run on rehearsed scripts, and use aesthetics (sound, light, movement, space) to create a sense of “the holy,” often turning the congregation into an audience and quietly treating atmosphere as a quasi-sacrament or “means” of producing spiritual effect. Historically, it traces religious theater from ancient ritual-as-drama (pagan and ...

The piece argues that the modern “church planter” concept is a late, human-invented construct born out of 19th–20th-century missiology—the academic habit of systematizing mission work using theology plus social sciences—and especially out of recent evangelical church-growth culture. It sketches a brief history of missiology: mission in the NT and early church is simply narrated; medieval Catholicism talks about plantatio Ecclesiae as the church being planted in new lands; Protestant mission societies explode in the 18th–19th centuries; then figures like Warneck and Schmidlin ...

Joseph Dumond’s latest book is one of the most exciting biblical rollercoaster rides full of sensational revelations and fresh insights. If you are a seeker of truth—no matter at what personal cost—you will undoubtedly appreciate the precious pearls of great price enshrined in its pages. Let’s face it; when you go to hear a great preacher, for his message to be worth hearing, it needs to move you. You have become inspired, your focus has changed, and you have come away with a new resolve. So it is also with a book. It has to inspire you. It has to hold you, stir and lead you, and ...

REDESCUBRIENDO A UN GIGANTE OLVIDADO Pedro Mártir Vermigli es reconocido como uno de los reformadores más destacados del siglo XVI, superado teológicamente solo por Juan Calvino. Pese a su vasta influencia teológica a través de los años, su legado ha permanecido casi inexplorado en español hasta el momento. Presentamos la primera parte de un proyecto apasionante que traduce los Loci Communes, su teología sistemática, por primera vez desde 1583. Este tomo te introduce en un profundo debate sobre el pecado original, la voluntad humana y la ley divina, destacando sus raíces bíblicas...

“PROGRESSIVE GLORIFICATION?” booklet is a compact polemic + study-aid that does three things in order: Puts the phrase “progressive glorification” on trial. The foreword argues that the phrase can sound like gospel brightness while functioning as a ladder that turns the Christian life into “climb higher, shine brighter, prove more,” shifting assurance from Christ to my progress. It insists 2 Cor. 3:18 is a window (behold Christ) rather than a scoreboard (measure yourself). Presents Charles Leiter’s “Law of Christ” material, then critiques it from an Old School Baptist ...

Edwards gives his usual thorough treatment as he examines the difference between common grace and saving grace, demonstrates the nature and qualities of saving grace, and emphasizes how the principle of grace is from the Spirit of God. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century.

Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestant Thought: A Complete Guide to His Ideas, Influence, and Lasting Legacy is a clear, accessible, and well structured introduction to one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. This book offers readers a guided journey through Luther’s most important ideas, the world that shaped him, and the movement that emerged from his bold challenges to tradition. Written for learners, history enthusiasts, and anyone seeking to understand the foundations of Protestant theology, it explains the core concepts that defined Luther’s work and why they ...

The book Conflicts Among the Tentacles of the Monster is a compact sociology-of-reform case study: it argues that the antebellum “benevolent empire” (Bible, tract, missions, temperance, abolition, education, etc.) projected a saintly public face while internally generating predictable power-struggles—because once a “cause” becomes an institution, it must fund itself, defend itself, and govern itself, and those needs incubate the same sins reformers claim to oppose. It maps the movement’s internal conflicts into recurring fault-lines. First is authority: church courts and local ...

Why Christianity’s Biggest Debate Is Stuck —and Why No One Can Win It For centuries, Christians and skeptics have argued about one question: Did the resurrection really happen? The arguments are brilliant. The books are endless. The results never change. Believers stay believers. Skeptics stay skeptics. What if the problem isn’t the evidence—but the question itself? In This Book You’ll Discover: Why resurrection debates never change anyone’s mind The hidden assumption believers and skeptics share Why history alone cannot decide the resurrection How the Incarnation reframes the ...

This book argues that Greek and Roman rhetoric is less a museum piece than the durable “engineering logic” of public persuasion—ethos, logos, and pathos—developed through Greek democratic courts and assemblies, sharpened by the Sophists and critiqued by Plato, systematized by Aristotle, and then pragmatically refined by Rome through Cicero’s canons and Quintilian’s moral program for forming a speaker. It then traces how this rhetorical bloodstream flowed into Christian preaching—most directly in the Latin West through Cicero → Augustine → later homiletics, and in the Greek...

Puts Luther (1525), Jonathan Edwards (1754), and Old School Baptists—Absoluter wing into one frame to compare “free will,” predestination, and lapsarian order. Moves from definitions → doctrine → exegesis → pastoral use, then closes with a source-based Beebe section. Big theses Luther: After the Fall the will is in bondage; conversion is monergistic (God alone). Scripture’s revealed will guides preaching; the hidden will is adored, not dissected. Emphasis: Law/Gospel and assurance. Edwards: Compatibilism—we always choose according to the strongest present motive; sinners ...