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What's
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New Brief: The Gagging
of God, written D.A.Carson, is an important work
that should be read by serious Christian leaders.
Christians
proclaim, both loudly and proudly, that "we believe in
absolute Truth." But do we?
"Part
of what is needed," writes D.A.Carson, "in a renewed
evangelical mind is learning to take on pregnant paradigms and
challenge them with a biblical worldview." Pastor-teacher
Gary Gilley does just that in his book "I
Just Wanted More Land" — Jabez.
"It
is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make
one wise, but the well-reading of a few of the very best."
---Richard Baxter
"He
who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves
that he has no brains of his own. Renounce as much as you will
all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological
works.The best way for you to be spending your leisure is to
be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from
books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your
Lord and Master's service." ---C.H.Spurgeon
What
others are saying about Book Briefs
A
Prayer to Consider
"O
Lord God, Teach me to look to Jesus on His cross and so to know
sin's loathsomeness in Thy sight. There is no pardon but through
Thy Son's death, no cleansing but in His precious blood, no
atonement but His to expiate evil. Show me the shame, the agony,
the bruises of Incarnate God, that I may read boundless guilt
in the boundless price. Blessed Lord Jesus, at Thy cross may
I be taught the awful miseries from which I am saved, ponder
what the word 'lost' implies, see the fires of eternal destruction.
Then may I cling more closely to Thy broken self, adhere to
Thee with firmer faith, be devoted to Thee with total being,
detest sin as strongly as Thy love to me is strong, and may
holiness be the atmosphere in which I live."
---taken from The Valley of Vision ISBN: 0-85151-821-4
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