Khotbah di Bukit mungkin merupakan bagian Kitab Suci yang paling terkenal. Akan tetapi, Khotbah di Bukit juga merupakan salah satu bagian pengajaran Kristus yang paling kurang dimengerti dengan benar. Sinclair B. Ferguson menulis, "Khotbah ini tidaklah bercerita tentang suatu kehidupan ideal di tengah dunia ideal, khotbah ini mengajarkan tentang suatu kehidupan sorgawi di tengah dunia berdosa".…
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. "The Weight of Glory," considered by many to be Lewis's finest sermon of all, is an incomparable explication of virtue, goodness, desire, and glory. Also included are: "Transposition," "On Forgiveness," "Why I Am Not …
"~This anthology of eighteen historic, Reformed sermons will be welcomed by all who have a serious interest in American history, literature, and religion. Each sermon is introduced by one of the editors, historians who specialize in American Christianity. The preachers represented in this volume ""show us God?s servants as instruments of his grace,"" writes William Barker. ""They manifest in th…
What does Christianity have to do with baseball? April Fool's Day? E-mail? DNA? Politics? Philip Ryken turns these topics into meditations on living out the Christian life in a culture that tries to forget God.
This primer on the ministry of preaching connects reading the Bible theologically with preparing and preaching sermons. Hans Boersma explains that exegesis involves looking beyond the historical and literal meaning of the text to the hidden sacramental reality of Christ himself, which enables us to reach the deepest meaning of the Scriptures. He provides models for theological sermons along wit…
The Book of Micah confronts idolatry, superstition, confusion, alienation, inhumane acts against one's neighbors, and desolation of one's being at the most profound personal and societal level. When preaching through this prophetic book, John Calvin had no more difficulty applying Micah's prophecies to his sixteenth-century countrymen than do preachers today. Calvin's twenty-eight sermons on Mi…
This Collection of children's sermons contains 8 short talks for young children given by Bishop Ryle to the boys and girls of his congregation. In them, he shows children the lessons they can learn from their everyday playing and teaches that the way to find true happiness is to believe in the Lord Jesus, seeking Him above all else.
The Sermon on the Mount is one of the most familiar passages in the New Testament. In this concise and clearly-written introduction to and commentary on the Sermon, Charles Talbert pays particular attention to its role in character formation and ethical decision making. After introductory chapters on reading the Sermon on the Mount, the book offers a section-by-section commentary. Talbert point…
J. Gresham Machen 'was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of his time, and it is doubtful that in the ecclesiastical world of the twenties and thirties any religious leader was more constantly in the limelight'. Machen was a scholar, Professor at Princeton and Westminster Seminaries, church leader, apologist for biblical Christianity, and one of the most eloquent defenders of t…