Are you looking for Bible story books for your toddler? I’m often asked about good books to use for children’s Bible stories or Bible lessons for kids. Very young children enjoy read-aloud Bible stories that are short and have colorful illustrations. And the books below are perfect for your children! The Toddler’s ABC Bible Storybook by [...]
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The Godly Home on Pinterest: Check it out!
Well if you haven’t heard, Pinterest, the social networking site that allows users to “pin” images of their favorite things to their wall, is the hottest thing since Facebook and Twitter. Here are a few stats that may surprise you: 80% of Pinterest’s users are female! 30% of Pinterest users are women 25-34 years old. As of [...]
One Year of Dinner Table Devotions and Discussion Starters
Most Christian children today have never seen their dad open a Bible to lead their family in a time reading and prayer. The idea of “family worship” is completely foreign in most Christian homes today. And even when their is a desire, very often parents feel inadequate or awkward. That’s understandable. One Year Dinner Table [...]
The Best Bible Commentary Series
For the last few years the majority of the books that I purchase have been Bible commentaries. Certainly Bible commentaries do not replace one’s personal study of God’s word, but gleaning the insight and wisdom of other men of God who have studied the scripture is always profitable. These Bible commentaries are perfect for Sunday [...]
12 Books that Influenced Dr. Wayne Grudem
Dr. Grudem wrote, “After book (1) below, it is an impossible question for me to answer exactly. Many books have influenced me at different times. Here are eleven that influenced me quite early in my Christian life (all but #3 and #10 and #11 while I was still in college, before I went to seminary), [...]
Doctrine Matters: Resources for Theological Study
Doctrine matters. What you believe about God, the gospel, the nature of man, and every major truth addressed in Scripture filters down to every area of your life. You and I will never rise above our view of God and our understanding of His Word. With this in mind, the following resources on the doctrines of [...]
John Harper – Hero of the Titanic
It was April 15, 1912, when HMS Titanic sank beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic, taking with it 1517 lives. The largest and most luxurious ship at the time was gone, reminding the world of our frailty as human beings. But there is more to the sinking of the Titanic than a historical [...]
The Basics of the Reformed Faith – Excellent Booklets on Christian Doctrine
Some of the most important questions Christians can ask are answered in these excellent booklets, the Basics of the Faith series! I’m getting this entire series to have in our church for both visitors and our members. These are excellent resources for anyone who wants a biblical summary of important Christian doctrines. The Basics of [...]
New Commentaries & DVD Series!
Oh, I’m really excited about my latest order from WTSBooks! Commentaries on Acts A couple weeks ago I began preparation to begin a series through the book of Acts. Since then, I’ve been reading the amazing book by Alan Thompson, The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus. I can honestly say that if I had [...]
J.C. Ryle on the Lord’s Supper
Read More on the Lord’s Supper Given for You: Reclaiming Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper by Keith A. Mathison Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper What Is the Lord’s Supper? (Basics of the Faith) The Lord’s Supper (Puritan Paperback) by Thomas Watson “The benefit of the Lord’s Supper depends entirely on the spirit [...]
When a true Christian sins, what happens?
His Fellowship with God is severed. David, when backslidden, mourned, “Day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer” (Psalm 32:4). As clouds hide the sun for days, so sin comes between the soul and God. The Joy of salvation is lost. One loses all relish [...]
David Brainerd’s Heart for Souls
“I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts…no amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence [...]
HELP WANTED: Looking for Volunteers to Join the Grace Online Library Team!
I’m currently looking for several motivated individuals who would like use their gifts to help manage and update the Grace Online Library website with relevant theological articles as well as manage the GOL Facebook Page. Candidates should: be Reformed in his theology (1689 LBC / WCF) have a solid knowledge of Reformed authors, books, etc. [...]
Preparing to Teach through Acts
Well, in the last couple of years I’ve had the privilege of teaching through 1-3 John, Ephesians, Esther, Ruth…and now Acts! I am really excited about this new series. I’m thinking it will take 6-9 months to finish the book in our morning Bible study time. But preparing for a study like this will take [...]
March Book Order – From Proverbs to Bonhoeffer to the Joy of Calvinism!
Ok, it’s that time of the month, and I just placed my March book order for WTSBooks! For the last several months I’ve been focusing primarily on Bible commentaries. Last month I ordered several great new sets. And this month, I thought I’d mix it up a bit. There are several books that looked [...]
Church History in Plain English
This volume, Church History in Plain English, is the most engaging and readable single-volume history of the Church by bringing the story into the twenty-first century. Faced with some astonishing changes in the Islamic world, a global resurgence of Roman Catholicism, the decline of Christianity in the West coupled with the rapid growth of evangelical [...]
12 New Commentaries for February
For years I’ve purchased and read Bible commentaries both for enjoyment and as part of my preparation for teaching and preaching. But for the last year or so I’ve been on a personal mission to purchase the very best commentaries on every book of the Bible. At last count I have about 300 individual volumes [...]
Sexual Immorality & Church Leaders
Recently Leadership Magazine commissioned a poll of a thousand pastors. The pastors indicated that 12 percent of them had committed adultery while in ministry – one out of eight pastors! – and 23 percent had done something they considered sexually inappropriate. Christianity Today surveyed a thousand of its subscribers who were not pastors and found the figure to be nearly double, with 23 [...]
The 9 Marks Set – 13 Books Every Christian Should Read
9Marks exists to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for displaying God’s glory to the nations through healthy churches. To that end, we want to see churches characterized by these nine marks of health. This 13-volume set explores and expounds the nine marks of a healthy church that Mark Dever outlined [...]
A Topical Reference Guide for Biblical Child-Training
This book, For Instruction in Righteousness, will help you use the Bible every time you discipline your children! For Instruction in Righteousness is a topical Bible for parents. It includes hundreds of verses on over 50 areas of sin. But it is more than just a topical Bible! Each chapter includes the following listings: What [...]
Earning an Online Degree in Bible or Other Studies
Recently I started doing research for a new project and was shocked to find out how many online Bible degree programs there were. There are dozens of Bible colleges and universities, conservative and liberal, that advertise online. In fact, one of the largest, Liberty University, must spend a fortune advertising their online college degrees because [...]
Are you a Shorter Catechism Man?
I read this today on my daughter’s Facebook page. I have no idea where it came from, but it’s excellent: “…in a city of intense excitement of violent rioting and the streets were overran daily by a dangerous crowd, then one day he observed approaching him a man of a singular combined firmness of character; [...]
Dealing with Discrepancies in the Bible
Fifty Difficult Passages Explained by Jay Adams Many of us would agree with Peter when he says that parts of Paul’s letters are hard to understand! And there are difficulties and apparent discrepancies in other parts of the Bible too. On this matter of discrepancies, I remember reading something written by an old seventeenth-century Puritan [...]
The Abuse of “Gospel Light” from The Evil of Evils by Jeremiah Burroughs
“I am persuaded that more men drop down to hell in our day under the abuse of gospel light than ever did in the gross darkness of popery…O how heavily does the wrath of God lie upon the professors of our age for the abuse of gospel light and they do not fee it, God’s [...]
5 Things to Remember when Buying Christian Books
Today I placed my January order for new theology books and commentaries. I typically order new books at the beginning of every month. I have lots of books, but I have always tried to purchase only the very best books on any given subject. There are simply “too many books and too little time” to [...]
