Christ Reformed Info

Joel Beeke, Overcoming the World: Grace to Win the Daily Battle. P&R Publishing, 2005. I alluded to part two, "Overcoming the World through Piety: Calvin's Answer to Worldliness," although the entire book is helpful.

Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom. The Banner of Truth Trust, 2001. This is a little book in the "Puritan Paperbacks" series.

Jerry Bridges, Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate. NavPress Publishing, 2007. This book was recommended to me by another pastor. I referred to it when describing how Christians tend to get very passionate about theological errors and larger social problems while tolerating a host of seemingly "smaller" sins.

Give Praise to God: A Vision for Reforming Worship - Celebrating the Legacy of James Montgomery Boice. P&R Publishing, 2003. This volume is edited by Philip Ryken, Derek Thomas, and Ligon Duncan, and contains a few chapters that I cited. The chapters are "Private Worship," by Donald S. Whitney; "A Call to Family Worship," by Ligon Duncan and Terry Johnson; and "Worship and the Emotions," by W. Robert Godfrey. The volume also contains excellent contributions by Edmund Clowney, Albert Mohler Jr., Mark Dever, Paul Jones, and Michael Horton, to name just a few.

John Piper, Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist. Multnomah Books, 2003. The volume published in 2003 is the revised and expanded edition. I noted that Piper helps us to wrestle with how it is that the Psalmist and other Biblical writers can speak of delighting in God, specifically in his law and his word.

Richard Sibbes, Glorious Freedom: The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law. The Banner of Truth Trust, 2000. Also in the "Puritan Paperbacks" series. Sibbes shows how the beauty of the gospel frees Christians to delight in godliness and gratitude.

R.C. Sproul, Pleasing God. Tyndale House Publishers, 1994. Sproul's own "gospel centered" approach to sanctification and the pursuit of Godliness.

Paul Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens. P&R Publishing. This is written from a similar perspective as the next book (by Tedd Tripp), but now with the aim of helping parents of teenagers.

Tedd Tripp, Shepherding A Child's Heart. Shepherd's Press, 1995. A wonderfully practical and incredibly important guide for parents. Though teaching children to obey their parents in nothing less than behavior modification, Tripp notes that it is much more; it is about cultivating a heart of Godliness in one's children. I'm convinced that all Christians, even those without children, would do well to read this book!

B.B. Warfield, The Religious Life of Theological Students. P&R Publishing. Warfield masterfully shows how there ought to never be a dichotomy between "spiritual" and "academic" exercises in our theological studies. While primarily written with seminary students in mind, this little pamphlet is applicable to all (clergy and laity alike) who are students of theology.