In this book, Simonetta Carr informs readers about John Owen's life, revealing some of the things that interested him while in school, the care he showed to people when he became a pastor, and the influential books that he wrote. Children will also come to understand the difficult times in which Owen lived, and how he handled the terrors of war and religious persecution. Full of Illustrations a…
Once upon a time there lived a man and a woman. They were the happiest people on the planet. True, they were the only people on the planet, but they were still terrifically happy. Unfortunately, things didn't stay happy and wonderful for long. The Bible is full of exciting stories that fill children with awe and wonder. But kids need to know how all those classic stories connect to Scripture's …
America's schools are flunking the test. Students can't read. They can't write. Basic math, science, history, and geography are almost lost causes. Many schools aren't even safe havens from crime and drugs. Douglas Wilson lays much of the blame for this on the idea that schools can be neutral about morality. He says education is essentially religious. Education deals with the basic questions of…
Pengakuan Iman Westminster dan Katekismus Singkat Westminster tanpa perlu diragukan lagi merupakan ungkapan yang setia dan ringkas tentang wahyu Allah di dalam Alkitab. Selama beberapa dekade ini, studi manual G.I. Willamson tentang Katekismus Singkat Westminster dan Pengakuan Iman Westminster telah menjadi penolong yang tak ternilai dalam memberikan petunjuk mengenai sistem doktrin yang telah …
Sejarah hermeneutik yang ada dalam buku ini adalah sejarah penulisan sumber-sumber penulisan hermeneutik beserta hiruk pikuknya di antara para tokoh pendiri dan pengembang hermeneutik itu sendiri. Dalam buku ini terdapat berbagai perdebatan dan kritikan yang bukan hanya dalam konteks bagaimana hermeneutika itu dibuat dan diciptakan, tapi bagaimana saling kritik mewarnai gaya penulisan dan bahka…
John Calvin had a profound understanding of the atoning work of Christ. His writings are still one of the major sources scholars and others rely on to give insight into what was accomplished by Jesus on the cross. In this book Robert Peterson first examines what Calvin says regarding the love of God, the Incarnation, and Christ's offices of prophet, priest and king. He goes on to consider Calvi…
"~Contrary to several popular works of Christian scholarship, historian Paul Barnett maintains that the first two decades of Christian history are hardly ""lost years."" As he shows in this penetrating book, the period between Jesus and the earliest Christian texts is open to historical investigation, and he richly details the time and setting in which the church was born. Writing in a very acc…
The essays in this volume address some Worldview matters related to certain extremely germane topics Christian Face every day of their life. While they are of a more popular tenor, and are not highly technical or necessarily philosophical, they do speak seriously and ably to serious issues of our day. Some of the topics will not surprise you. The near ubiquitous issues of informational technolo…
The church today is built on the Reformation's linguistic heritage yet is in danger of losing that strong foundation. Many seminaries no longer require that their students learn the Biblical languages for their divinity degrees - some do not even teach them! Yet these are the basic tools of any study of the Bible, and if we don't teach the Bible, then what is the church teaching? If we need enc…
Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? Told in the straightforward, enganging style that has become Susan Wise Bauer's trademark, THE STORY OF THE WORLD covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China Europe, the Americas-findout what has happened all around the world in the centuris before ours and in our own time. This read aloud se…