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Anselm of Canterbury

Simonetta Carr

Hardcover, 64 pages

Retail Price: $18.00

Our Price: $14.00

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ISBN: 9781601782410

While he would have preferred the simple, quiet life of the monastery—teaching, reading, thinking, and writing about God—Anselm of Canterbury spent much of his life dealing with powerful kings, consulting with popes, and serving reluctantly as archbishop of Canterbury. Through Anselm’s story, Simonetta Carr teaches what life was like in medieval Western Europe. Young readers will learn of the tempestuous relationship between church and state during this era and the significance of Anselm’s writings about why God became man and the relationship between faith and reason.

Series Description  The Christian Biographies for Young Readers introduces children to important people in the Christian tradition. Parents and school teachers alike will welcome the excellent educational value it provides for students, while the quality of the publication and the artwork make each volume a keepsake for generations to come. Furthermore, the books in the series go beyond the simple story of someone’s life by teaching young readers the historical and theological relevance of each character.

Author  Simonetta Carr was born in Italy and has lived and worked in different cultures. A former elementary school teacher, she has home-schooled her eight children for many years. She has written for newspapers and magazines around the world and has translated the works of several Christian authors into Italian. Presently, she lives in San Diego with her husband, Thomas, and family. She is a member and Sunday school teacher at Christ United Reformed Church.

Illustrator  Matt Abraxas has traveled from California to France, studying different approaches to art. He enjoys creating and teaching art and currently exhibits his work at the SmithKlein Gallery in Boulder, Colorado. Matt lives with his wife, Rebecca, and two sons, Zorba and Rainer, in Lafayette, Colorado.

Endorsement  “Anselm, one of the most original thinkers of the medieval West, lived in a world that is in many ways very different from ours. Yet many of Anselm’s solutions to those timeless problems of how to deal with other people and how to speak about God are fresh even today, nine hundred years after he lived. Simonetta’s book is a very fine introduction for children to Anselm, his world, and his role in it.” — Dr. Samu Niskanen, research fellow in history at Helsinki University and author of a new critical edition of Anselm’s correspondence

“Simonetta Carr has again rendered a great service to lovers of church history and, perhaps even more, to those not yet captivated by that love. In her sixth biography for young readers, adults and youth alike will rediscover godly Anselm, a man rarely heard of today but whom readers will be pleased to get to know. With her usual grace, Carr fascinates us with her subject, making the reader yearn to know more. Though Anselm lived in times and church settings vastly different from our own, this delightful recounting of his story reveals to us a man facing trials and pressures we can identify with in his fervent pursuit of God. Filled with their trademark beautiful artwork, this set is rapidly becoming one of the finest collections on the characters of church history to be published in many decades. Well done, Simonetta! I cannot recommend these volumes highly enough.” — Dennis Gundersen, president and owner of Grace and Truth Books and author of Your Child’s Profession of Faith

I trust that all of us desire to lead sinners to Christ in the most biblical and God honoring way possible. I’m sure that all who read this blog (and write for it) want to be used of the Lord to bring their unsaved friends and family members to Jesus. But how do we do this and from whom can we learn? This is where I have been extremely helped by Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley’s new book entitled Prepared by Grace, For Grace. This work teaches us from the great Puritans themselves how to do this most noble work in a way that squares with Scripture. Not only is this volume a helpful clarification on what the Puritans taught about this matter and a great antidote to much of the easy believism that is so rampant in our day, but it is also a prod to do the work of spreading the glorious gospel to the lost.

The publisher describes the book like this:

Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine of grace for a man-centered legalism. In Prepared by Grace, for Grace, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Puritan understanding of preparatory grace, demonstrate its fundamental continuity with the Reformed tradition, and identify matters where even the Puritans disagreed among themselves. Clearing away the many misconceptions and associated accusations of preparationism, this study is sure to be the standard work on how the Puritans understood the ordinary way God leads sinners to Christ.

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The series of Christian Biographies for Young Readers was born in response to a need for simple but accurate and informative books on men and women of church history, emphasizing God’s preservation of His church and doctrines rather than moral samples to follow. Masterful illustrations capture the imagination of readers, and photos help them to realize the reality of these stories.

Titles in print:

John Calvin - ISBN 9781601780553
John Owen – ISBN 9781601780881
Augustine of Hippo – ISBN 9781601780737
Athanasius – ISBN 9781601781512
Lady Jane Grey – ISBN 9781601781901
Anselm of Canterbury – ISBN 9781601782410

Expected titles:
John Knox
Jonathan Edwards
and many more

Spiritual Warfare: A Biblical and Balanced Perspective

Brian Borgman and Rob Ventura

Paperback, 128 pages

Coming 2014

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Be Strong in the Lord
2. Put on the Full Armor of God
3. The Schemes of the Devil
4. The Nature of Our Conflict
5. The Belt of Truth
6. The Breastplate of Righteousness
7. The Gospel of Peace Footwear
8. The Shield of Faith
9. The Helmet of Salvation
10. The Sword of the Spirit
11. The Warfare Prayer
12. Warfare Prayer and Proclamation
13. Spiritual Warfare Debriefing

Appendix 1: The Sovereignty of God and Satan

Appendix 2: Can a Christian Be Demon-Possessed?

Appendix 3: Pray for Your Pastors

“Spiritual Warfare is thoughtful, biblical, theological, accessible, and impactful. The book is exegetical and expository without feeling like a commentary or running homily. In it, authors Borgman and Ventura make much of Christ and what He has done without negating the reality of our adversary and the real danger he presents, as well as our call to faith, righteousness, prayer, and perseverance that flows directly from our Savior’s finished work. What a timely, refreshing, encouraging, convicting, and empowering book! I can’t wait to get it in front of our people.”   — Voddie Baucham Jr. serves as pastor of preaching at Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas, and is author of Family Shepherds.

“William Gurnall once said that the battle between Satan and the saints makes the most brutal war on earth look like child’s play. Yet so many Christians act like civilians on vacation instead of soldiers on the front lines. Borgman and Ventura, like experienced master sergeants, give us the Bible’s basic training on spiritual warfare. Drawing from the classic text in Ephesians 6, their teaching will both clear away false ideas about the spiritual battle, and equip Christians to stand firm to the end.” – Dr. Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Prepared by Grace, for Grace: The Puritans on God’s Way of Leading Sinners to Christ

Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley

Paperback, 304 pages

Retail Price: $25.00

Our Price: $19.00

Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine of grace for a man-centered legalism. In Prepared by Grace, for Grace, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Puritan understanding of preparatory grace, demonstrate its fundamental continuity with the Reformed tradition, and identify matters where even the Puritans disagreed among themselves. Clearing away the many misconceptions and associated accusations of preparationism, this study is sure to be the standard work on how the Puritans understood the ordinary way God leads sinners to Christ.

Authors  Joel R. Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and a pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Paul M. Smalley is a teacher’s assistant for Dr. Beeke.

Endorsements  “I can think of no abler team of writers in the world today to tackle the important issue of preparatory grace, with all of its attendant law-gospel implications, than Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley. As with legalism, preparatory grace suffers from verbal abuse—partly through ignorance of the real issues, and partly through prejudice for its supposed attempt to usurp gospel grace. Beeke and Smalley have provided us with a plethora of historical and theological material to enable us to walk through this controversial but important issue. It has been suggested that to understand the relationship between law and gospel is to be a theologian; on this score, these authors are theologians par excellence.” — Derek W. H. Thomas, professor of systematic and historical theology, RTS Atlanta, and minister for preaching and teaching, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina

“No subject is more important to man than knowing how he may be saved. The Puritans excelled in their exposition of a scriptural gospel. Yet while they rejected a theology of human merit and of free will, they differed somewhat in their view as to the preparatory work of God in those who are saved. The authors of this comprehensive study expound most carefully these different Puritan emphases and also critique the views of such modern writers on the Puritans as Perry Miller, George Marsden, Norman Pettit, and R. T. Kendall. The extensive use made by the authors of both the available primary and secondary sources indicates the great care that has been used by the writers to be fair to the great Puritans and in this way to help the modern reader. I recommend this study especially, but not only to preachers. It will help to cure us all of the modern danger of giving premature assurance to those who profess faith in Christ without evidences of being broken to repentance. The study of this book could do much to transform our evangelistic influence today.” — Maurice Roberts, former minister of the Inverness Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) and former editor of the monthly magazine The Banner of Truth

Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary interviews Ryan McGraw on his book ‘By Good and Necessary Consequence’ 

Pastor Ryan M. McGraw was installed as pastor of First Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Sunnyvale, on November 9, 2012. Pastor McGraw is a graduate of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (GPTS. MDiv and ThM). He is the author of The Day of Worship: Reassessing the Christian Life in Light of the Sabbath; By Good and Necessary Consequence; and Christ’s Glory, Your Good: Redemption Planned, Promised, Accomplished, and Applied. Pastor McGraw has contributed numerous articles and book reviews to publications such as Puritan Reformed Journal, The Confessional Presbyterian, Westminster Theological Journal, Banner of Truth, Calvin Theological Journal, Katekomen» (GPTS’s online journal), and the Website, meetthepuritans.com». He is currently pursuing Ph.D. studies at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa) with respect to John Owen’s practical Trinitarian theology in relation to public worship. He is married to Krista, and they have three sons: Owen, Calvin, and Jonathan.

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