Basic Christian Doctrine is an anonymous Doctrines book by a Calvinistic author. It has 50 topics/chapters, and does a good treatment on these topics even if it is a briefer treatment. Each chapter has 10 points with a paragraph or two of comments on each point. Lots of verses.
Tag: Faith
Spurgeon, C.H. – Faith’s Checkbook
Faith’s Checkbook
By Charles Haddon Spurgeon
This is a devotional work by Spurgeon, using the image of a checkbook which stands in the place of money until some future time when the “check is cashed” likewise our faith is like that checkbook.
Warfield, Benjamin B. – Faith & Life
B. B. Warfield kept up the Princeton tradition of Sunday afternoon classes with the students of the Seminary in which, in his own words, ‘the deepest currents of the Christian faith and life were explored’. This book contains some of the memorable addresses he gave on those occasions. There was a time when Princeton Seminary…
Pink, Arthur – Heroes of the Faith
The Heroes of the Faith
A. W. Pink
1886-1952
The object of the Christian’s hope is an expression of his faith. This is an actual presence in his heart and mind and thinking. One’s faith flows abundantly from one’s beliefs, what one “does not see” but even so, is assured that it is real. This is our future viewed through the eyes of faith. It is the bond between what God says will happen, and what we believe so much that we live out our lives based on those beliefs. Faith is a bond between our heart and soul and what God has promised us.
This reality shows itself in our life, and this is where Pink examines heroes of the faith, and how their faith has actually brought about a present reality from this future outlook.
Pink examines and explains this from Hebrews 11, God’s list of great heroes of the faith. In each of these cases, God uses an individual who has lived his life different because of the promises of God that have so gripped him or her, that they can no longer live “normal” lives, but live a life showing God in that life that they live.