Allrighty. I finished R.T. France's excellent Matthew commentary and as I said previously I would like to continue reading commentaries. However the Mark commentary I purchased will not be here till Friday. So I need something to read in the meantime and that is where you wonderful folks come in.


In the poll will be listed 5 books. Thanks for your vote!

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

I voted for Edwards. It was one of the best books I read last year, and I plan to read it again this summer.

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Jacob
Sovereign Grace Ministries
Covenant Fellowship Church
WTS M.A.R. in Theology student
West Chester, PA

"Grace renews nature; glory perfects grace." ~ John Owen
"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace. It is glory in its infancy." ~ John Flavel
Blog - The Strasbourg Inn

I've started Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards and it's very good.

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sarah
WI
OPC
My Pastor's Sermons: Mark Jenkins...he's awesome!!!

I suggest you read the Bible Genesis through Revelation.

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We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lawrence Underwood, Jr.
Pastor - Providence Family Fellowship / Mobile, Alabama
1644/46 LBC
My Blog - Imprimis

Solo Scriptura!

But seriously that is kind of the plan with the commentary reading. I am going to read a medium-length non-technical commentary on each book.

Always Johnathan Edwards

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Martin - Reformed
Husband to the most godly, honorable and loyal wife Line
Searching for a Church
Webpage www.5solas.dk
Free Online Reformed Seminary - http://www.tnars.net
Soli Deo Gloria

Can you go wrong with Pilgrim's Progress?

I just read the Philosophy of Revelation...I may simply be a moron, but much of the book is dated and refers to contemporary science such that b/c certain ideas are out-dated, what Bavinck says is nearly irrelevant.

The first 200 pages or so have some really good stuff, though.

A good read through Pilgrim's Progress is always good.

I'm reading Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek by David Black. Fascinating.

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Charlie Johnson
Downtown Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, student

I agree you can't go wrong with Pilgrim's Progress.

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John Komenda
Symphony Bible Church
Conservative Baptist
Buffalo, New York

Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear. Is.65:24 ESV

I assume you've read Pilgrim's Progress before, but I voted for it anyway. Can't have too many readings of that book. And, if you haven't read it yet, read it now!

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Seth Stark
Member, Communion Presbyterian Church (ARP), Irvine, CA
Biola University, Graduate Student, M.A. - Science and Religion
Seth's Blog

Gordon Clark gets a bad rap but I think everyone interested in expanding their mind should read him, so I suggest some books by him.

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Erick Bohndorf, Redeemer Presbyterian PCA
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
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Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward. Ecclesiastes

Both Edwards and Alexander are very good on the affections (Alexander uses the same framework laid down by Edwards). Someday it would undoubtedly be good to have both read. However, I personally enjoyed Alexander a bit more.

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Rev. Adam King
Minister in the RPCNA
Pastor,Trinity Reformed Church
Wichita, KS

Bunyan. Edwards will do nothing for your prose style.

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Ruben
Moderator
F.P.C.I.
Indiana

Vanities and disguises have covered us, and thereby we are naked; licenciousness hath inflam'd us, and thereby we are frozen; voluptuousness hath fed us, and thereby we are sterved, the fancies and traditions of men have taught and instructed us, and thereby we are ignorant.
John Donne

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Calvinistas Conversando
Teología en Mexico
The Howling Wilderness

Take three days off.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
Facebook - The Calvinist Vent
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

You won't go wrong reading anything that Bavinck writes.

AMR

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Patrick
Member, PCA
Chandler, AZ
ReformedTheologyInstitute.com

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

What, Finney wasn't an option? Why don't you tackle the Left Behind corpus?

I voted for Murray since that is a book I have been wanting to read since purchasing it a few months ago.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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I voted for Bavinck too.

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Joel de Leon
Member (man under care)
Christ Presbyterian Church, OPC
Salt Lake City, UT

The Cleansed Leper

The man hasn't read Pilgrim's Progress and you guys are voting for other stuff? Good grief, its all good, but PP is such a foundational classic!

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Jonathan Hunt

Elder holding forth the word of life at:
Cheltenham Evangelical Free Church (Confessionally Based)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
-- Thomas Elsworth

I know. I am embarrassed to say I have never read it.


Though I am going to. (Then Edwards, Alexander, and Murray then Bavinck)

Thanks all!

Good choice Ben.

IMO, every preacher should read PP every couple of years, it keeps the story & the language fresh in your mind & that book is a goldmine of sermon illustrations.

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Kevin Rogers
Sovereign Community Church, PCA
Moncton NB

Great choice. You will love it, and most likely be challenged.

PP is not only a good read, but a great listen as well. I have listened to the MP3 version and found it quite engaging.

Bunyan is the only author with reformed doctrine whose writing is not only great theology, but simply great writing in itself. Warfield and Candlish, and to a lesser extent Calvin, are good writers, but they do not have a style which is classic. Whereas Bunyan can be ranked in the company of people like Sir Thomas Browne.

I finished up Alexander's a few weeks back and have just begun Edward's. I am very much enjoyed "Thoughts on Religious Experience" and so far so great with "Religious Affections" as well.

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Lee Dodd | Twitter: @LeeDodd
Layperson - FBC Daisetta
Dayton, TX

"We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work." - John 9:4

Bunyan and Edwards (in that order) would be my choices if you had more than 3 days to read. Since you don't, Murray.

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In Christ's love and service

Mr. Tim Cunningham,
BMus. (Trombone Performance), University of Toronto
Dip. CS, Regent College, Vancouver
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC
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"I once sat in darkness, and waited for the moon to rise.
I once sat in darkness, and waited for the sun to shine.
I once sat in darkness, when all the light I'd waited for was gone.
Then Jesus came, and now the only true light, ever, shines in me."
– John Deacon -

Well this was almost a month ago. Since then on this list I have read Murray, Bunyan, and Edwards.