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Books to recommend
David J. Engelsma
Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel
Anchored in Grace Jeremy Walker
Mealtime habits of the Messiah Conrad Gempf
Dylan goes Electric
The God who Justifies James White
Matthew L Jacobson author
Team Us Marriage Together Ashleigh Slater
Mahaney Humility
Dave Willis author
The potters freedom James r White
Living the Cross Centered Life Mahaney
Systematic Theology Robert Culver
Packer on the Christian Life - Sam Storms
Sinclair Furgeson
Ashamed of the Gospel John MacArthur
God for the rest of us Antonucci
Thomas Watson Exposition of the Beatitudes
To be continued Waldron
The Church Mark Dever
Restoring all things stonestreet daly
Fabric of Faithfulness Garber
GK Chesterson Orthodoxy
Apologetics John Frame
Preaching Timothy Keller
This Momentary Marriage - Piper
John Frame Salvation belongs to the Lord
Expository Apologetics Voddie Baucham
Luther on Vocation Gustaf Wingren
Desiring the Kingdom James K. A. Smith
The Reason for God Timothy Keller
Undivided Mitchell and Rhonda Owens
Piper This Temporary Marriage
Quitter John Acuff
What do they believe Andrew Rappaport
Book of Life System Bible Study
Living the braveheart life Randall wallace
Timothy Keller Romans for you
Made for More Hannah Anderson
Fools Talk Os Guinness
Writers to Read Doug Wilson
Greg Forster the joys of Calvinism
Rico Tice
Friendship Redeemed Holland
So what's your point Scallia
Body of Divinity Thomas Watson
David Hazelton A Simplified guide to Paul's Letters
Stephen Altrogge
Reformation Readings of Paul from IVP academic
Preparing for ministry Allan Harman
Banner of Truth
A way to pray. Matthew Henry
The Joy Project Piper
Ashamed of the Gospel, worship, the power of integrity John MacArthur's
Jesus Unmasked Todd Freil
Progressive revelation
Typology
Uncensored Brian Cosby
A History of Western Philosophy and Theology John M. Frame
Let the earth hear His voice Greg R. Scharf
Guild guitar book Hans Moust
Anointed Expository Preaching Stephen Olford
For Calvinism Michael Horton
The Next Story Tim Chillies
Awe Paul David Tripp
Expository Apologetics Voddie Vauchman
Ulrich Zwingli
The Big Question Alister McGrath
Wisdom and Wonder Kuyper
Thinking fast and slow
Gospel according to Jesus John MacArthur
Where do we stand Harry Blamires
Melvin Tinker Intended For Good
Paul Helm The Last Things
God in the manger John MacArthur
Gospel According to Jesus John MacArthur
The Unquenchable Flame Reeves
Assured by God Burk Parsons
We Can Not Be Silent R. Albert Mohler Jr.
An Absolute Sort of Certainty Stephen J Nichols
God the Evangelist David F Wells
The Triune God edited by Kohl
Author Carl Trueman
Margo Todd The culture of early modern Protestantism in early modern Scotland
The Death of death in the death of Christ
Packer
Classic Christianity Bob George
Christ's Call to Discipleship Boice
Return to authentic Christianity Chuck pierce
Humility CJ Mahaney
Sam Storms esv mens devotional Bible
Second and center cafe Weston, WV
Mathison approach go science
Mahaney Cross centered life
The overview effect Frank White
Renewing your mind in a mindless world
James Montgomery Boice
Mathison Keith Reformed Approach to science and Scripture
Note to self Joe Thorn
Holiness JC ryle
Raising grateful kids in an entitled world
Kristen Welch
Covenental Apologetics Oliphint
Sharnock the existence and attributes of God
Originals Adam Grant
Author R Kent Hughes
Respectable Sins Jerry Bridges
Do more better Tim Challies
Truth Endures John MacArthur
God's Love RC Sproul
Disciplines of a Godly Man R. Kent Hughes
David Pogue Pogues basics life
Wayne Grudem Business for the glory of God
Kevin deyoung just do something
What about free will? Scott Christesen
A Peculiar Glory John Piper
The inerant word edited by John MacArthur
The Whole Christ Sinclair Furgeson
Twelve What Abouts
Rocking father hood Chris Kornelis
Election and Free will Robert Peterson
Absolutely Free Zane Hodges
Free to Learn Peter Gray
A particular glory Piper
Booked and paid to speak Grant Baldwin
Mindset Carol s dweck
With my eyes wide open Brian head welch
Willing to Believe RC Sproul
Prepared to stand alone JC Ryle
Ichabod Spencer A Pastors scetches
Paper Mark Kurlansky
The art of work Jeff goins
Assured by God Buck Parsons
The scripture cannot be broken
John MacArthur
Covenental apologetics Scott Oliphint
Standing strong John macarthur
Timothy Keller making sense of God
David Murray Jesus on every page
Am I called Steve Harvey
Rescuing ambition Steve Harvey
The extent of the atonement David Allen
The sacred and the profane Mircea Eliade
To live is Christ Matt Chandler
Fools talk OS Guinness
Stressed out Todd Friehl
The sermon on the mount James Montgomery Joyce
The prophecy of Isaiah Alec Motyer
The existence and attributes of God
Stephen Charnock
Forgotten Fear albert martin
Science and the Bible Henry Morris
Reformation Heritage Study Nobel
Grace Randy Alcorn
Big Beliefs David Helm
Loving your wife Larry McCall
Reformation Heritage Study bible
Anxious for nothing Macarthur
Found Gods peace MacArthur
Doctrine if Election AW Pink
Gospel J D Greear
Taste and See John Piper
Octavias Winslow
Gospel J D Greear
Chuck Tate 41 will come
A song of ascents e Stanley jones
The husband book Dean merrill
Found Gods peace John Macarthur
A time for truth William simon
The way of the modem world
Craig M Gay
Franchising mcChurch
Risky Gospel Owen Strachan
Paul Davis Tripp Whiter than snow
Biblical Doctrine John Macarthur
Doctrines of Grace Steven Lawson
Bruce Ware A Lesser God
JD Greear
Berkhof Louis Systematic Theology
Masculine Mandate Richard Phillips
Glei, manage your day to day
Case for the Psalms NT Wright
Discerning your call to ministry Jason K Allen
God Transcendent J. Gresham Machen
Edinburgh Banner of Trust
W. Robert Godfrey
Dr.Nick Needham
Reformed dogmatics Herman bavnick
The legacy of Luther edited RC Sproul
Devoted to God Sinclair Furgeson
Unlimited Grace Bryan Chapell
Evangelism and the sovereignty of God
Packer
The third bullet
William Tyndale Steven Lawson
Counter Culture David Platt
Running Scared Ed Welch
Shame and Grace Lewis Smedes
The reason for God - Tim Keller
Child in the manger Sinclair Furgeson
Church History Shelley
A defence of the Important Doctrines of God - Particular Redemption by John Hurrion
Practical implications of Calvinism
Albert Martin Banner of truth
Invisible best seller Briggs
Daring mission of William Tyndale
The challenge of evil William Greenway
To own A dragon Donald Miller
Am I called?
Particular Redemption John Hurrion
A defense of the important doctrines of the Gospel -
The knowledge of God in Calvin's theology
Edward A Dowey
All the light we can not see Doerr
Surgeon Lectures to my students
The art of work Jeff Goins
Foundation s of Grace Lawson
Knowing God through Calvin's institutes Calhoun
Habits of grace Mathis
The Disciple making parent Chap Bettis
The Hole in our Holiness Kevin Deyoung
A simple Christianity John MacArthur
John Frame A history of Western Philosophy
The whole Christ Sinclair Furgeson
Crossway books
Helmet Thielicke Author
Kevin DeYoung the good news we almost forgot
Michael Kruger Canon Revisited
Faith Alone RC Sproul
Do more better Tim Challies
The Reformation how a monk and a mallet changed the world Stephen J Nichols
Follow Me David Platt
Echoes of the Reformation Brandon Smith
None like Him Jen Wilkin
Without a doubt Kenneth Richard Samples
The Christian Mind Harry Blamires
Salvation Belongs to the Lord John Frame
Martin Buser Ground and Reason
Running Scared Ed Welch
Biblical Doctrine MacArthur Mayhue
To the Glory of God James Boice
All things for good Thomas Watson
Glenn Packiam
Chosen by God RC Sproul
Thomas Schreiner Faith Alone
New Morning Mercies Paul David Tripp
Devoted to God Sinclair Ferguson
Daniel Szabo A Song from there
Idols for destruction Herb Schlossberg
Rediscover ING Expository Preaching
John MacArthur
The Last Adam Brandon Crowe
He will reign forever Michael Vlach
Thomas a Kempis
Devoted to God Sinclair Furgeson
The marriage advance Burkeen
Martin Luther Renegade
Lyndal Roper
Martin Luther Judgement on Monastic Views
Confessing the faith Dixhoorn
Concise Theology JI Packer
Timothy Keller
Prayer,
Walking with God through pain
Making sense of God
Paul David Tripp New morning mercies
Alister McGrath In the beginning KJV Bible
Sermons on Titus Calvin translate by Robert White
Vern Poythress
A Godword heart John Piper
Louis Berkhof Systematic Theology
Preaching for God's Glory Alister Begg
The Listening Life Adam S. McHugh
Deep Work Cal Newport
Power Encounters David Powlison
Tell the truth Will Metzger
William Gurnall The Christian in Complete Armor Volume 1
Shepherd ing a child's heart
The Crook in the Lot Thomas Boston
The whole Christ Sinclair furgeson
No Excuses Brian Tracy
Martin Luther Renegade and Prophet
Lyndal Roper
First century study Bible
If only he knew Gary Smalley
Reformation Theology editor Barrett
Naselli How to interpret the OT
The great orators of the Reformation era
Planting Watering Growing Hyde and Lemus ISBN 9781601781260
Divine Immutability and the doctrines of grace Steven J Lawson
Ashamed of the gospel John MacArthur
Rico Tice Capturing God
The Christ of the covenants O. Palmer Robinson
Knowing God through the year devotional Nystrom
Listening and voice Don Ihde
A Godward Heart John Piper
William Gurnall the Christian in complete Armor
The fruitful life Jerry Bridges
Sons we accept Jerry Bridges
Martin Luther in his own words
Potter's freedom James White
Alister McGrath Heresy
Eric Metaxas Martin Luther
The fruitful life Jerry Bridges
Bruce Larson Dare to live now
Thomas Watson A Body of Divinity
Pink The sovereignty of God
Chosen by God RC Sproul
Grace Alone Carl Trueman
Truth Randy Alcorn
Paul David Tripp Instruments in the Redeemers hands
Every job a parable John Van Sloten
Your mind matters John Stott
Amusing Ourselves Postman
Cross of Christ John Stott
John a 12 week study Justin Buzzard
Gary Giley is that you Lord
A time for confidence Stephen Nichols
Justin Buzzard author
10 Reasons why people should listen to classical music
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Planning
"The heart of a man plans his way," says Solomon, "but the Lord establishes his steps" (Proverbs 16:9). We are to plan in the here and now, but we can do so in the confidence that the Lord is acting in our lives and in our circumstances, calling us to His purpose.
-Gene Edward Veith
Phil Johnson on Calvinism
"Furthermore, I'm not one of those who wears Calvinism like a big chip on his shoulder, daring people to fight with me about it. It's true that I can get feisty about certain points of doctrine—especially when someone attacks a principle that goes to the heart of the gospel, like substitutionary atonement, or original sin, or justification by faith and the principle of imputed righteousness. When one of those principles is challenged, I'm ready to fight. (And I also don't mind beating up on whatever happens to be the latest evangelical fad.)
But Calvinism isn't one of those issues I get worked up and angry about. I'll discuss it with you, but if you are spoiling for a fight about it, you are likely to find me hard to provoke. I spent too many years as an Arminian myself to pretend that the truth on these issues is easy and obvious.
Now, don't get the wrong idea. I do think the truth of God's sovereignty is clear and ultimately inescapable in Scripture. But it is a difficult truth to come to grips with, so I am sympathetic with those who struggle with it. I'm Calvinistic enough to believe that God has ordained (at least for the time being) that some of my brethren should hold Arminian opinions.". - Phil Johnson
Envy is a window
Envy is a Window
by Association of Biblical Counselors
by Paul Tripp
"For I was envious of the arrogant." (Psalm 73:3)
This side of heaven all of us do it and most of the time we do it without knowing that we are. It is such a natural thing for sinners to do. Perhaps every day, someplace, at some moment we want what someone else has. Everyday we are jealous for the possessions, position, or prominence of another person. There is probably never a day when we are free of envy.
Maybe you're standing on the corner and someone drives by in a BMW and you say to yourself. "It must be nice!" Or maybe you see someone coming out of an upscale restaurant and just for a moment you want their life. Or maybe you've just heard about you neighbor's vacation and you wonder how they pulled that off. Or perhaps it's dreaming of being your boss's boss. Or maybe its a dark moment when your mind thinks about being with another man's wife. Or it could be as mundane as wishing that you were as slim as Sally or as athletic as Josh. Or perhaps you spend too much time being a YouTube voyeur on the lives of the rich and famous. Or maybe your struggle with envy is not so well defined. Maybe it shows itself by making complaint the default language of your daily talk. Perhaps it shows itself in constant feelings of dissatisfaction. Or maybe it's revealed by irritation that bubbles below the surface all the time. It is safe to say; if you're a sinner, envy lurks around the corner all the time.
You see, envy gets right to the heart of what sin is about. 2 Corinthians 5:15 says that Jesus came so that "those who live should no longer live for themselves." The inertia of sin is inward. It causes me to shrink my world down to the size of my life. It causes me to daily worship at the altar of my wants, my needs, and my feelings. Sin puts me at the center of my existence; the one place that neither I nor any other human being should be. Sin causes me to be obsessed with what I have and don't have, with what I have in comparison to what others have, and with what I've determined I need to have in order to be happy. Sin causes love of others to be replaced with entitlement, and service of others to be replaced with demand. Sin makes me quickly impatient and easily irritated. Sin makes it easier for me to complain than it is to praise. Sin makes complaining more natural than thankfulness. Sin causes my eyes to be bigger than my stomach and my "I wants" to constantly outsize my "I haves."
Why does sin do all of this? Because the DNA of sin is selfishness. Sin is about the higher law of self. Sin puts you and me in God's position. Sin is self-focused and self-possessed. That dark day in the Garden, Adam and Eve didn't eat that forbidden fruit out of love for God and one another. No, these people, created to live for God and with others, stepped over created boundaries in an act of outrageous selfishness. We are still paying for their selfishness today! Loving God above all else means submitting all I want, all that I think I need, and all that I feel to his good, wise, loving, and holy lordship. Sin causes me to quest for lordship and imprisons me in bondage to me. I have written again and again about the redemptive implications of this, but here is one thing that you and I need to recognize and humbly accept everyday; the thing that Jesus came to rescue us from is us!
So, it is no wonder that envy is such a problem for us. But your Lord has the power to redeem your envy as well. By his grace he can help you to see what your envy reveals about your heart and your continued need of his rescuing, restoring, empowering, forgiving, and transforming grace. Here's what you need to understand. Your particular struggle with envy is a window into the real struggles of your heart. Let me explain.


1. Envy is a window on the true treasures of our heart. Oh sure, we would all like to think that we love God above all else. We all want to believe that his plan is more important to us than anything we would plan for ourselves. We would like to assume that what God promises us is more precious to us than anything we could ever set our eyes on. But envy reveals that these things are not yet completely true to us. Envy reveals that there is still a war of treasure raging in our hearts. Envy exposes the fact that the treasures of this physical, created world still have a powerful ability to seduce, tempt and side-track us. Envy tells us that we still look for satisfaction to things that do not have the organic capacity to satisfy the craving of our hearts. Who or what you envy tells you what you treasure.
2. Envy is a window on how easily and consistently we forget. We do have the amazing ability to stand in front of a closet that is bulging with clothes and say that we don't have a thing to wear. We do have the capacity to stand in front of a refrigerator filled with food and say there is nothing to eat. And we do have the ability to stand in the middle of lavish blessing and feel as if we are poor and needy. The sin of forgetfulness is one of the root sins of envy. We forget that, in God's grace, we have been given what we could not earn, achieve, or deserve. We forget that the Creator of all things and the Controller of all that is, is our Father and he is not only able to meet all our needs, he is willing to do so. Envy forgets blessing and in forgetting blessing assumes poverty and in assuming poverty gives way to hunger and this feeling of hunger tempts us to look to and long for what simply will not satisfy.
3. Envy is a window on the war within. Envy is a reminder. Envy is a warning. Envy is the sounding of an internal alarm. Envy tells you that you must not live with a peace-time mentality. Envy tells you that this is not the time to chill and relax. Envy reminds you that there really is a war that is still raging for the rulership of your heart. Envy calls you to be a humble and disciplined soldier. Envy calls you to examine your heart and interrogate your desires. Envy calls you to live watchfully and prayerfully. Envy warns you to reject assessments of arrival. To the degree that you crave what you Father has not chosen to give you, to that degree you heart is still out of step with him. The fight still goes on.
Now, maybe after reading this you're thinking, "Wow, Paul, that was really discouraging!" Here's what you and I need to remember. Our Savior walked on this earth where the war of envy rages, but he was envy free. Why? Not because he had it all, but because he was willing to forsake it all for you and for me. Think about this; rather than wanting all that was his right as God, Jesus was willing to forsake it all so that the battle for our hearts could and would be finally won. He walked away from glories our minds are to small to conceive in order to deliver to us these glories that our minds are to small to conceive. He was not propelled by envy. No, he was propelled by love and that love is the most powerful reason for hope in the universe. So, we can affirm the struggle. We can confess when envy yanks us off his pathway. And we can know for sure that there will be a day when envy is no more and we will live forever in the kingdom of his love, fully and completely satisfied.
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