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BOOK HIGHLIGHT – A Cup of Cold Water by Christine Farenhorst

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A Cup of Cold Water: The Compassion of Nurse Edith Cavell
by Christine Farenhorst

224 pages | Direct Price: $11.99 $9.00 | Paperback | Series: Chosen Daughters | Published: 2007

Summary: “The secret password is yorc,” the princess whispered. Edith longed for her girlhood in England, when her secrets had been kept safe by her dog Reddie. But now in God’s timing, Edith is director of a nursing school in Belgium. Caught in the turmoil of World War I, Edith finds herself surrounded by enemy spies. As a nurse protected by the Red Cross, will Edith turn her back on the Allied soldiers who desperately need her help?

The Chosen Daughters series highlights the lives of ordinary women who by God’s grace accomplish extraordinary things.

About the Author:

Christine Farenhorst, author and poet, has written Amazing Stories from Times Past, The Great Escape, Wings like a Dove, and Before My Mother’s Womb. Christine and her husband, Anco, have five children, nineteen grandchildren, a dog, and ten chickens.

What Others Say About this Book:

“A captivating introduction to Edith Cavell. Educational, inspiring, and full of gospel encouragement, A Cup of Cold Water is destined to be a family read-along favorite.”

– Tara & Matt Kingswood, Russell, ON

“A blend of artistic craft and scholarly research bring Edith Cavell to life. Edith fulfills the hope of her earthly father: ‘that she would grow up to serve God in some special way.’ But more important, her faith points to a heavenly Father who directs and plans lives for His glory. Just as He directed Edith Cavell’s life, He will accomplist the plans concerning me!”

– G. Carol Bomer, artist, Asheville, NC

About the Chosen Daughters Series:

The Chosen Daughters series highlights the lives of ordinary women who by God’s grace accomplish extraordinary things. The series features the stories of Jeanne d’Albret, Edith Cavell, Olympia Morata, Juliana von Stolberg, and Margaret Wilson.

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Our mis­sion is to serve Christ and his church by pro­duc­ing clear, engag­ing, fresh, and insight­ful appli­ca­tions of Reformed theology.

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Recap of New Releases from January & February

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Here is a recap of the 7 new releases from January & February.

1. God’s Word by Sally Michael
128 pages
List Price: $16.99
Series: Making Him Known
Subject: Children Non-Fiction
Paperback | Fully Illustrated
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Summary: This full-color illustrated primer teaches children what the Bible is, what it says, and why we can trust God’s true, powerful Word. In easy-to-understand language, children will learn important theological concepts like the authority, inspiration, infallibility, and inerrancy of Scripture. Each chapter includes discussion questions and family-friendly activities, making this book an excellent devotional for parents of young children.

2. Beginnings: Understanding How We Experience the New Birth by Stephen Smallman
208 pages
List Price: $12.99
Subject: Christian Living
Paperback
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Summary: Every true Christian has a story to tell of God’s reviving work. Here Smallman studies numerous conversion stories, both biblical and contemporary, showing how the Holy Spirit’s work can be traced in the spiritual birth of new believers. In light of John 3, he gives practical instruction on how we can serve as “spiritual midwives” to others—assisting in their new birth.

3. Living in the Gap Between Promise and Reality, Second Edition: The Gospel According to Abraham by Iain M. Duguid
208 pages
List Price: $14.99
Series: Gospel According to the Old Testament
Subject: Bible Study / Old Testament
Paperback
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Summary: God made Abraham glorious promises, but the patriarch still spent years living in a gap between their fulfillment and his day-to-day reality. We can often relate to him. Working through the Genesis account, Iain Duguid shows how Abraham, in both his faith and failure, points to Jesus and the gospel, providing an example and a profound encouragement for us today.

4. John Frame’s Selected Shorter Writings, Volume 2 by John M. Frame
416 pages
List Price: $16.99
Subject: Theology
Paperback
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Summary: Twenty-six pointed essays summarize some of Frame’s central ideas about Scripture, theological education, apologetics, ethics, and the church. The book begins with “Inerrancy: A Place to Live,” one of Frame’s shortest and clearest presentations of this central aspect of the doctrine of Scripture. Other essays include “Why Theology Needs Philosophy”—a precursor to Frame’s epic History of Western Philosophy and Theology.

5. A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes, Paperback Edition: Essays and Analysis edited by David W. Hall & Peter A. Lillback
528 pages
List Price: $22.99
Series: Calvin 500
Subject: Reformed Traditions
Paperback

Summary: A definitive, section-by-section commentary that will serve as a natural companion to Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion for classes, students, pastors, and others for years to come.

6. Joy beyond Agony: Embracing the Cross of Christ, A Twelve-Lesson Bible Study by Jane Roach
296 pages
List Price: $12.99
Subject: Christian Living
Paperback
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Summary: A devotional commentary ideal for small group discussion and study. Each of the twelve lessons in this volume explores one aspect of Jesus’ cross through Bible study, application questions, commentary, testimonies, and hymns. Our familiarity with the crucifixion can cause us to miss its deep teaching. Learn what the cross shows us about our Savior and the paradoxes of Christian living, and discover the hope and joy it gives us as we face life’s struggles and uncertainties.

7. Parenting Is More Than a Formula by Jim Newheiser
80 pages
List Price: $6.99
Subject: Parenting
Paperback | Mini-Book
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Summary: Jim Newheiser provides insight into the many competing parenting formulas that vie for parents’ attention. He teaches parents how to discern their value and critique them against God’s Word, explains why they often fail and what truly determines how children turn out, and encourages parents with the only parenting plan we can trust: the gospel, which is bigger than any formula.

Our mis­sion is to serve Christ and his church by pro­duc­ing clear, engag­ing, fresh, and insight­ful appli­ca­tions of Reformed theology.

 

NEW RELEASE – Common Grace and the Gospel by Cornelius Van Til and Edited by K. Scott Oliphint

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Common Grace and the Gospel by Cornelius Van Til, edited by K. Scott Oliphint

272 pages | $17.99 | Paperback

Summary: What point of contact does the Christian have with the world in order to bring the biblical message to the nonbeliever? How can the doctrines of election and total depravity be reconciled with the universal offer of the gospel and human responsibility? Does our Lord show favor to saint and sinner alike?

Restoring the full text of the original 1972 work, this collection of annotated essays addresses questions on common grace and its relevance to the gospel. A pioneer in presuppositional apologetics, Cornelius Van Til sets forth a Christian philosophy of history; examines the views of Abraham Kuyper, Herman Hoeksema, and others in the debate over common grace; and replies to criticism.

About the Author and Editor:

Cornelius Van Til (1895–1987) was born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, and immigrated with his family to America in 1905. He attended Calvin College and Calvin Seminary before completing his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University with the ThM and PhD degrees. Drawn to the pastorate, Van Til spent one year in the ministry before taking a leave of absence to teach apologetics at Princeton Seminary. When the seminary reorganized, he was persuaded to join the faculty of the newly founded Westminster Theological Seminary. He remained there as professor of apologetics until his retirement in 1975. Van Til wrote more than twenty books, in addition to more than thirty syllabi. Among his best-known titles are The Defense of the Faith, Christian Apologetics, A Christian Theory of Knowledge, and An Introduction to Systematic Theology.

K. Scott Oliphint (MAR, ThM, PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is professor of apologetics and systematic theology at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia. He has written numerous journal articles in the field of apologetics, is author of The Battle Belongs to the Lord, Reasons for Faith, Christianity and the Role of Philosophy, Should You Believe in God, and is editor of The Defense of the Faith and Revelation and Reason.

What Others Are Saying About this Book:

“Van Til’s account of the matter has been controversial, even among his disciples. But there is much we can learn from him on this subject, and anyone who wants to understand his apologetic and theology must engage his thought at this point. Scott Oliphint, who has edited other works of Van Til, has taken up the difficult but worthy task of explaining Van Til’s thoughts on common grace to twenty-first–century readers.”

— John M. Frame, J. D. Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Florida

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Our mis­sion is to serve Christ and his church by pro­duc­ing clear, engag­ing, fresh, and insight­ful appli­ca­tions of Reformed theology.

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Author Interview with Tim Chester

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This week’s author interview is with Tim Chester. Tim is the author of You can Pray: Finding Grace to Pray Every Day.

 

  • Chester, TimQuestion #1 – Tell us a little bit about yourself: where you’re from, family, job, personal interests, unique hobbies, what you do in your spare time, etc.

I’m married to Helen and we have two daughters who are both at university in the UK. I live in Sheffield, the most beautiful city in the world. We moved here in 2000 to start a church. But later this year my wife and I are moving to North Yorkshire where I’ll be co-leading a rural church plant. In my spare time I love history and walking plus a bit of wild swimming.

 

  • Question #2 – When did you first want to write a book?

I wrote my first book 21 years ago. I know that because it came out in the same month my first daughter was born.

 

  • Question #3 – Have you always enjoyed writing?

I didn’t so much discover that I loved writing as discover that other people don’t love writing! I just assumed everyone could write. It wasn’t until I’d written a couple of books that I realized other people found writing hard or painful. I think by writing. So many of my books started with me wrestling with an issue. But I also love words and the way they work together. Often in idle moments I find myself composing sentences in my head. Apparently this is not normal!

 

  • Question #4 – What book are you reading now?

Yesterday I read a pre-publication copy of a great little book on Christian growth by John Hindley called You Can Really Grow. Today I’m reading Life in the Trinity by Donald Fairbairn. My bedtime reading at the moment is Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet by Mark Cocker – a nature diary based in the village of Claxton in Norfolk, England. In the UK it gets dark at around 4:30pm at this time of year (the compensation is it doesn’t get dark until 10:00pm in the summer) so in February reading about nature is a good alternative to being able to go walking.

 

  • Question #5 – What advice would you give to aspiring writers?

When people tell me they’d like to write a book, I always ask, ‘What about?’ And if people don’t know then I discourage them. You have to have something to say. It’s not so much that I choose to write a book as a book chooses to be written by me. That’s just a pretentious way of saying a topic grips my heart and then writing about it feels like a compulsion. I guess ‘calling’ would sound better, but ‘compulsion’ is what it feels like!

 

  • Question #6 – Do you have an interesting writing quirk?

I don’t know if this counts, but I often leave out negatives in a sentence (words like ‘not’). As typos go it’s about as bad as it gets because of course it completely reverses the meaning of the sentence!

 

  • Question #7 – Favorite sport to watch?

That’s easy – cricket.

 

  • Question #8 – Favorite flavor of ice cream?

Don’t mess about with ice cream, giving it wacky flavours or trendy names. Just give me vanilla.

 

Want to learn more about Tim Chester?

 

BOOK HIGHLIGHT – The Word of God and the Mind of Man by Ronald H. Nash

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The Word of God and the Mind of Man by Ronald H. Nash

138 pages | Direct Price: $11.99 $9.00 | Paperback | Published: 1982

Summary: The last two centuries of Christian theology are the record of an evolving attack on the role of knowledge in the Christian faith. The purpose of this book is to challenge the major forms of Christian agnosticism and offer an alternative theory that makes human knowledge about God possible.

In other words, is there a relationship between the human mind and the divine mind that is sufficient to ground the communication of truth from God to humans?

About the Author:

Ronald H. Nash was professor of Christian philosophy at Southern Baptist Seminary. He authored more than thirty books and lectured at more than fifty colleges and universities in the United States, Great Britain, and the former Soviet Union. He is also the author of The Gospel and the Greeks: Did the New Testament Borrow from Pagan Thought?.

What Others Say About This Book:

“A timely, important, and truly penetrating work. It makes a significant contribution at the controversial crossroads of debates over divine revelation.”

– Carl F. H. Henry

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Our mis­sion is to serve Christ and his church by pro­duc­ing clear, engag­ing, fresh, and insight­ful appli­ca­tions of Reformed theology.

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