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  • The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

    by
    Os Guinness

    Word Publishing, 1998.

    In my church, I was asked to be a member of a panel discussion on the subject of the Christian and work. Fortunately (or I should say, providentially), this new book by Guinness came out the same week that I was preparing for the panel discussion, and it is an excellent book. Let me quote from the notes on the cover: “Guinness goes past our superficial understanding to the very heart of what calling means.

    Biblical Topics: 
    Spiritual Life

  • Absolutely Sure

    by
    Steven J. Lawson

    Sisters, OR: Multnomah Press, 1999, 190 pages.

    This is a very good book on the subject of eternal security. In his foreword to the book, John MacArthur said: “Assurance of salvation. Complete certainty unassailed by uncertainty and doubt. Is it possible? How may we know we are truly saved? I know of no single doctrinal issue that confuses people more than this one” (page 11).

    Biblical Topics: 
    Assurance

  • Keeping the Heart

    by
    John Flavel
    (1630-1691)

    Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1998.

    This book has been called by some one of the greatest Christian books of all time. It is another of the excellent reprints of Puritan books from Soli Deo Gloria. The book, which was originally entitled “A Saint Indeed”, is based on Proverbs 4:23, which exhorts us to “keep our heart, for out of it are the issues of life”.

    Biblical Topics: 
    Spiritual Life
    Passage: 
    Proverbs

  • Guerrilla Hostage: 810 Days in Captivity

    by
    Denise Marie Siino

    Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell, 1999, 230 pages.

    The book tells of the ordeal of Ray Rising, who served as a missionary to Colombia with Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics, stationed at the facility at Lomalinda. On March 21, 1994, he was kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas associated with FARC (The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).

    Biblical Topics: 
    Missions
    Suffering, Trials, Persecution
    Testimony & Biography

  • When a Baby Dies: Answers to Comfort Grieving Parents

    by
    Ronald Nash

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999, 120 pages.

    Nash, who is a professor of theology and philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida, tackles a painful subject, the death of infants, which of necessity brings up the issue of infant salvation. The first four chapters deal with four wrong approaches to the question of infant salvation: Chapt 1-that infants are saved because they are innocent of sin; Chapt.2-universalism; Chapt.

    Biblical Topics: 
    Suffering, Trials, Persecution
    Comfort

  • My Heart In His Hands—Ann Judson of Burma: A Life, with Selections from Her Memoir and Letters

    by
    Sharon James

    Evangelical Press: Durham, England, 1998, 237 pgs.

    The book is an account of the life of Ann Judson, wife of Adoniram Judson. Born Ann Hasseltine in 1789 in the New England town of Bradford, Ann was converted from nominal Christianity into a vital spirituality and a true faith in 1806 during the Second Great Awakening, and formally joined the Congregationalist church.

    Biblical Topics: 
    Missions
    Testimony & Biography

  • Seeing the Invisible: Ordinary People of Extraordinary Faith

    by
    Faith Cook

    Durham, England: Evangelical Press, 1998, 152 pages.

    In this book, the author takes 10 individuals from the pages of church history, most of whom we have never heard of, and shows how each demonstrated faith in God in an extraordinary way. The accounts are very brief—from 10 to 20 pages each--but each life makes a lasting impression.

    Biblical Topics: 
    Faith
    Testimony & Biography

  • Hudson and Maria: Pioneers in China

    by
    John Pollock

    Ross-shire, Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 1962,1996, 206 pages.

    The book is a biography of Hudson Taylor, the pioneering missionary to China, and his marriage to Maria Dyer. The book is relatively brief, and only carries Taylor through to the death of his beloved Maria. Taylor first went to China in 1853 at the age of 21; he married Maria (who had been born in China herself) in 1859, and she died of cholera in 1870 after only a dozen years of marriage.

    Biblical Topics: 
    Missions
    Testimony & Biography

  • The Last Days According to Jesus

    by
    R.C. Sproul

    Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1998, 250 pages.

    This book deals with the Olivet Discourse of Jesus, recorded in its most complete form in Matthew 24-25, and in more abbreviated form in Mark 13 and Luke 21. The stated purpose of the book is “to evaluate moderate preterism and its view of eschatology” (page 24).

    Biblical Topics: 
    Christology
    Eschatology (Things to Come)

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