A Blessed Hope
How will you keep going if you have nothing to look forward to?
Our path in life is challenging, enclosed in darkness, and often seems hopeless. Thomas Manton experienced this, yet he also knew that God gently motivates His children along the way by giving them something to look forward to. Accordingly, A Blessed Hope reminds us that the Christian life is sustained by “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). Would you like to better understand what Christian hope is, recognize how it sanctifies us, and learn to maintain it? Then read this book and discover with Manton the pleasant power of expecting the return of Christ and His heavenly reward.
A Perfect Redeemer
What is more soul satisfying than contemplating our interest in Christ?
In this brief but compelling book, William Perkins offers an insightful treatment of what it means to rest in Christ’s sole sufficiency. He does this by carefully explaining what it means to know Christ crucified and the inestimable advantage we gain from His being our redeemer. This message tears down all self-righteousness and extols the riches of God’s grace in Jesus, urging us to rest in “a perfect Christ, a perfect Redeemer!” As you read, may your faith be strengthened, your hope renewed, and your love enflamed.
Holy Meditation
True meditation is not emptying the mind, but filling it. And everyone meditates on something.
The Puritans viewed meditation as essential for spiritual growth and effectiveness in spiritual duties—a crucial link between hearing, believing, and living God’s Word. Proper meditation cultivates discernment, deepens repentance, and fosters devotion.
Instructing us in occasional meditation and set meditation, this modernized version of Thomas Manton's work on a crucial spiritual discipline helps believers discover the transformative effect of biblical meditation on the mind and heart.
Killing Sin and Denying Self
We all have the same problem: sin. In this book, Thomas Watson puts our sin on full display not to leave us wallowing in despair but to heighten our appreciation of God’s matchless grace. He begins by tracing the miserable consequences of Adam’s sin and the pervasive grip it has on our lives to this day. He goes on to detail the ways and reasons sin brings us so low and the proper ways to respond. He concludes by walking us through the duty of denying sinful self-absorption. Watson helps us understand how sin causes us to fall short of God’s best for us and points us to the remedy in Christ.
Special Providence for Anxious Souls
Worry. Anxiety. Fear.
These attitudes are well-known to anyone who desires to please God in the midst of our sin-cursed world. How can we know that the trials we face are working together for good?
In Special Providence for Anxious Souls, Obadiah Sedgwick reminds us how God's makes everything work for His glory and our highest good.
Read this warm, doctrinally rich study to receive comfort from the hand of God in every aspect of your life.
The Blessed and Boundless God
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord? — Psalm 89:6
From the psalmist’s assertion that no one in heaven or earth is like God, George Swinnock derives his principal doctrine—namely, God is incomparable. Throughout The Blessed and Boundless God, he proves his doctrine by demonstrating God’s incomparableness in His being, attributes, works, and words. Swinnock is a pastor-theologian who views theology as the means by which we grow in acquaintance with God and, consequently, in godliness. Therefore, he carefully applies his doctrine by demonstrating how God’s incomparableness informs, counsels, and comforts us. Read this book prayerfully, thoughtfully, and expectantly, keeping in mind Swinnock’s simple conviction that “when we take the incomparable God as our God, we are incomparably blessed.”
