Recommended Reading
In The Gospel’s Power and Message, Paul Washer addresses these essential elements of Christ’s good news and provides a guide to help us rediscover the gospel in all its beauty, scandal, and saving power. May such a rediscovery transform your life, strengthen your proclamation, and bring the greatest glory to God.
In The Gospel Call and True Conversion, Paul Washer challenges such easy believism as he examines the real meaning of things like faith, repentance, and receiving Christ. He also deals extensively with the effects of saving grace that God promises in the new covenant; namely, the creation of new hearts and new people.
Who is regulating affairs on this earth today-God, or the Devil? That God reigns supreme in Heaven, is generally conceded; that He does so over this world, is almost universally denied-if not directly, then indirectly. More and more are men in their philosophizing and theorizing, relegating God to the background. Take the material realm. Not only is it denied that God created everything, by personal and direct action, but few believe that He has any immediate concern in regulating the works of His own hands. Everything is supposed to be ordered according to the (impersonal and abstract) “laws of Nature”. Thus is the Creator banished from His own creation. Therefore we need not be surprised that men, in their degrading conceptions, exclude Him from the realm of human affairs.
Recommended Resources
The Attributes of God – A.W. Pink
Knowing God – J.I. Packer
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God – J.I. Packer
Foundations of Grace – Steven J. Lawson
Pillars of Grace – Steven J. Lawson
The Expository Genius of John Calvin – Steven J. Lawson
The Bondage of the Will – Martin Luther
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ – John Owen
The Mortification of Sin – John Owen
What is Reformed Theology – R.C. Sproul
Chosen by God – R.C. Sproul
The Holiness of God – R.C. Sproul
Whomsoever He Wills – Tom Ascol
Holiness – J.C. Ryle
The Call to Prayer – J.C. Ryle
Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Knowledge of the Holy – A.W. Tozer
The Cross: The Vindication of God – Martin Lloyd-Jones
