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A 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

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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

 

"...short essays could have one advantage over the book.  They might appeal to readers who have not the leisure to read, or who might get bogged down in, longer works".
- C.S. Lewis