Christian Life

Our age lives for the present. Christians look forward to the future. Our age exalts youth. God calls us to respect the elderly. Our age idolizes h...

Across the world students and young people are discovering anew the sound spiritual wisdom that is to be found in the practical writings of the sev...

John Newton converted slave-trader, preacher, and hymn-writer, was one of the most colourful figures in the Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth...

Do Christians today see the Lord’s Day, the Christian Sabbath, as an unattractive, dreary time of legalistic restriction? If so, have they misunder...

A reviewer described Maurice Roberts’ earlier book The Thought of God as ‘a contemporary work with the depth of the classics which speaks across de...

An encouraging counsel to believers, particularly ministers, challenging us to put aside all that interferes with the ministry of the gospel and to...

Inter-Faith is one of the most influential religious movements in the present world scene. A combination of academic theologians, leaders of main-l...

John Flavel faithfully and powerfully applies the warnings of Scripture against sexual immorality. He exposes both its truly horrid nature and frig...

Samuel Ward explains the immense value of faith, not only as the gateway to salvation and life everlasting, but as the key to a joyful and triumpha...

According to Jonathan Edwards, heaven will be a world of holy love. God himself is the source of this love, and in heaven he will impart it perfect...

The name ‘Christian’ (Christ’s one) has been used of the followers of Jesus Christ since the earliest years of the church. But what is a Christian?...

The Christian life begins when we hear and respond to the ‘call’ of Jesus Christ. Like the first disciples, we must ‘leave everything’ in order to ...

How easily and frequently many Christians become discouraged! Yet, as Tom Wells shows, even more alarming is the reason why some Christians are so ...

John Owen’s teaching was always pastoral in its concern. His aim, said his assistant David Clarkson, was ‘to promote holiness’. Consequently his wo...

The Carnal Christian’ is an incisive analysis of one of the major problems in the contemporary evangelical scene in the United States. If evangelic...

The message of the Cross is the heart of the Christian gospel. The records of the life of Jesus devote more attention to it than any other part of ...

Biblical guidelines for growing to Christian maturity. It explains the pattern of God’s work in the lives of his people and concludes with a brief ...

How do we live with our deepest differences? In a world torn by religious conflict, the threats to human dignity are terrifyingly real. Some socie...

Do you watch movies with your eyes open? You buy your tickets and concessions, and you walk into the theater. Celluloid images flash at twenty-fou...

God calls us first to himself, to know and follow him, and also to a specific life purpose, a particular reason for being. This second call or "voc...

Some invitations we desperately want: "Will you marry me?" "Would you consider a promotion?" Other invitations we never want to receive but must re...

Which activities give you energy and connect you with God? Do you know what behaviors are life-draining for you, separating you from God? Simplici...

Taizé--the word is strangely familiar to many throughout the contemporary church. Familiar, perhaps, because the chanted prayers of Taizé are well ...

"The lordship of Christ should include an interest in the arts," writes Francis Schaeffer. "A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, ...

We live in a cynical age. Cynicism is in the air we breathe; it is a cultural norm; it is the default setting and lens through which many of us vie...

A personal retreat. We've never needed it more. We run from one place to the next--from meetings and appointments to our kid's soccer practice, fr...

When we fail to rest we do more than burn ourselves out. We misunderstand the God who calls us to rest--who created us to be people of rest. Let's ...

Whether setting about to love our neighbor, to settle a dispute, to share in the suffering of others or to speak up on behalf of the marginalized, ...

Why are we all so busy? So frequently exhausted? This common 21st century complaint affects the church no less than everyone else. What, then, has ...

The question of profiting from Scripture provides the theme for this book, originally published as a series in Studies in the Scriptures. How much ...

The three-views approach is an effective and succinct means of introducing theological subjects to readers of all levels. How Then Should We Choose...

In the writings of J. C. Ryle (1816–1900), generations of readers have found faithful biblical wisdom and searching applications that aim at the he...

Most Christians spend most of their waking hours working, yet many regard work as at best a necessary evil -- just one more unfortunate by-product ...

"A vitally important book, which shows beyond any doubt that Paul's ethics are . . . a central and integral part of his total theological outlook. ...

Extensively researched, The Jonah Factor provides a step-by-step approach to helping Christians discern what jobs, careers, and volunteer activitie...

Illness can strike at anytime, but dealing with a life-long ailment takes faith, patience, and adjustment to a different kind of lifestyle. Accepti...

This timeless little classic communicates essential teachings of Martin Luther. The subject of Freedom is both timely and poignantly relevant today...

Explores how God’s grace brings strength and healing to the broken places in people’s lives James A. Harnish, from the Introduction: “I’m broken. S...