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Clarifying the basis of Christian assurance Examining it's effect on the life of a Christian Renowned author, speaker, pastor and theologian
Author : Joel R. Beeke
Publisher : Christian Focus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Assurance (Theology)
ISBN : 9781781913000
Clarifying the basis of Christian assurance Examining it's effect on the life of a Christian Renowned author, speaker, pastor and theologian
Author : Randall C. Zachman
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664228651
Common widsom concerning Luther and Calvin suggests differences in the way they related the testimony of Christ to the conscience. Zachman undertakes the long overdue comparison of their theologies, especially the ways in which Luther and Calvin define and describe the conscience and relate it to the testimonies of the Word and the Spirit. Winner of the Marc Perry Galler Prize for a work of scholarly distinction.
Author : Louis Berkhof
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2018-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781948648387
In this work Louis Berkhof explores the the history and theology of assurance of salvation through faith, showing how a Christian should be assured of their salvation through trusting Christ. This is a phenomenal book to read if you are doubting your faith.
Author : Greg Gilbert
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493407783
Despite our professions of belief, our baptisms, and our membership in the church, many of us secretly wonder, Am I truly saved? We worry that our love for Jesus isn't fervent enough (or isn't as fervent as someone else's). We worry that our faith isn't strong enough. We struggle through the continuing presence of sin in our lives. All this steals the joy of our salvation and can lead us into a life characterized by legalism, perfectionism, and works righteousness--the very life Jesus freed us from at the cross! But Greg Gilbert has a message for the anxious believer--be assured. Assured that your salvation experience was real. Assured that your sins--past, present, and future--are forgiven. Assured that everyone stumbles. Assured that Jesus is not your judge but your advocate. With deep compassion, Gilbert comforts readers, encouraging them to release their guilt, shame, and anxiety to rejoice in and follow hard after the One who set them free.
Author : Sinclair B. Ferguson
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433548038
Since the days of the early church, Christians have struggled to understand the relationship between two seemingly contradictory concepts in the Bible: law and gospel. If, as the apostle Paul says, the law cannot save, what can it do? Is it merely an ancient relic from Old Testament Israel to be discarded? Or is it still valuable for Christians today? Helping modern Christians think through this complex issue, seasoned pastor and theologian Sinclair Ferguson carefully leads readers to rediscover an eighteenth-century debate that sheds light on this present-day doctrinal conundrum: the Marrow Controversy. After sketching the history of the debate, Ferguson moves on to discuss the theology itself, acting as a wise guide for walking the path between legalism (overemphasis on the law) on the one side and antinomianism (wholesale rejection of the law) on the other.
Author : Avery Dulles
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1996-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195109733
Faith, since the earliest Christian theologians, has been regarded as the fundamental Christian virtue--the prerequisite for hope, charity, and good works. In this book, Avery Dulles examines the biblical foundations and history of theological reflection on faith, from the Greek and Latin fathers to such modern giants as Tillich, Rahner, and Lonergan. Further, Dulles presents his own systematic synthesis, reflecting on such topics as the nature and object of faith; the certitude of faith; the birth, growth, and loss of faith; and faith and salvation. The result is a refreshingly relevant theology of faith for our day.
Author : J. D. Greear
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433679183
“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians. In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality. Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation? Such issues are handled with respect to the theological rigors they require, but Greear never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.
Author : Ligonier Ministries
Publisher : Ligonier Ministries
Page : pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781567690071
Teaching Outline + Study Guide for The Assurance of Salvation
Author : Joel R. Beeke
Publisher : Banner of Truth Trust
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Against the background of the sixteenth-century Reformers (with special attention to Calvin), Beeke examines the theological development of personal assurance of faith in English Puritanism and its parallel movement in the Netherlands, the Dutch Second Reformation.
Author : Doug Batchelor
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Justification (Christian theology)
ISBN : 9781580192026