Assurance of Salvation
Few things are as comforting in the Christian life as a solid assurance. That fearless knowledge within that I really am a child of God. But this is a blessing that even many true believers struggle to acquire, and some go a long time in the Christian life without it. Here are some of the books we’ve found most helpful, to provide both an honest, biblical self-assessment and to offer genuine comfort where it is warranted. Likewise, these volumes are meant to display to the presumptuous that their hopes are misplaced and to direct them to seek Christ with sincerity, that they might have valid grounds of assurance.
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Free to Be Holy: The Liberating Grace of Walking by Faith (Jerry Wragg)
$11.99In this book, Jerry Wragg and Paul Shirley call us back to Scripture’s manifest blueprint for becoming conformed to the image of Christ. With balance and warm-hearted clarity, they demonstrate that God’s grace empowers us for every good deed. They show us that our justification doesn’t liberate us from being diligent in our efforts to trust and obey, but rather it gives us power to withstand temptation and walk with the Lord in victory.
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Heaven (Randy Alcorn)
$16.99Have you ever wondered . . . ?
- What is Heaven really going to be like?
- What will we look like?
- What will we do every day?
- Won’t Heaven get boring after a while?
We all have questions about what Heaven will be like, and after twenty-five years of extensive research, Dr. Randy Alcorn has the answers.
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Spurgeon’s Calvinism (Charles Spurgeon)
$12.00Spurgeon’s Calvinism is the Prince of Preachers describing, defending, and applying the doctrines of grace. According to C. H. Spurgeon, “Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.” And in this volume, Spurgeon precisely and convincingly articulates each of the five points of Calvinism.
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Studies on Saving Faith (Arthur Pink)
$12.50This book is a Biblical response to easy-believism and antinomianism, both of which are rampant in our day in the modern church. Its relevance is seen in the following statement from Pink: “At no point does Satan use his cunning and power more tenaciously, and more successfully, than in getting people to believe that they have a saving faith when they have not.”
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Through the Eyes of Spurgeon (Charles Spurgeon)
$12.00Through the Eyes of Spurgeon is a goldmine of memorable statements of C. H. Spurgeon mined out of his books and 3,600 sermons. The Prince of Preachers had a gift of concisely and powerfully communicating the truths of the gospel. And this book gathers thousands of the most meaningful quotes from Spurgeon into one accessible volume.
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Why We’re Protestant: The Five Solas of the Reformation, and Why They Matter (Nate Pickowicz)
$13.95One of the key questions the Protestant Reformation asked and answered was: how does a person get right with God? In approaching this question, the Reformers set out to rediscover and establish the bounds of essential Christianity through five declarations: sola Scriptura (Scripture alone), sola gratia (grace alone), sola fide (faith alone), solus Christus (Christ alone), and sola Deo gloria (the glory of God alone). Nate Pickowicz’s guide will help us understand not only the Reformation, but the Christian faith itself.
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Spurgeon on the Christian Life: Alive in Christ (Michael Reeves)
$14.99Charles Spurgeon, widely hailed as the “Prince of Preachers,” is well known for his powerful preaching, gifted mind, and compelling personality. Over the course of nearly four decades at London’s famous New Park Street Chapel and Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon preached and penned words that continue to resonate with God’s people today.
Organized around the main beliefs that undergirded his ministry—the centrality of Christ, the importance of the new birth, the indwelling of the Spirit, and the necessity of the Bible—this introduction to Spurgeon’s life and thought will challenge readers to live their lives for the glory of God.
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The Marrow of Modern Divinity (Edward Fisher)
$23.50An intriguing book, quite unlike any other, The Marrow of Modern Divinity defies pigeonholing. Written in the 1600s by a Puritan author of whom we know little, yet it proved to be a critically important and controversial theological text.
Penned as dialogue between a minister (Evangelista), a young Christian (Neophytus), a legalist (Nomista) who believes Christianity is a set of rules to be obeyed, and Antinomista, who has decided sin is perfectly acceptable because God forgives anyway. Makes for a wonderfully insightful book, highly relevant in its approach to theology still today. Elaborates at length on the Law of God, the gospel, the Covenant of Works, the Covenant of Grace, the Ten Commandments, the Law of Christ, and the True Rest for Heart and Soul.
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The Bruised Reed (Richard Sibbes) (#26)
$8.95“I shall never cease to be grateful to Richard Sibbes, who was a balm to my soul at a period in my life when I was overworked and badly overtired, and therefore subject in an unusual manner to the onslaughts of the devil. I found at that time that Richard Sibbes who was known in London in the early 17th century as “the Heavenly Doctor Sibbes” was an unfailing remedy. The Bruised Reed quietened, soothed, comforted, encouraged and healed me.” — Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), one of the most influential figures in the Puritan movement during the earlier years of the seventeenth century, was renowned for the rich quality of his ministry. The Bruised Reed shows why he was known among his contemporaries as ‘the sweet dropper’.
The Bruised Reed is now issued for the first time in a smaller format in the Puritan Paperbacks series. Some of the language and punctuation have been modernized to make the work more accessible.
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The Christian’s Great Interest (William Guthrie)
$8.00Assurance of salvation is the subject of this highly readable, practical book, the only book the author ever wrote. With vast pastoral concern for believers struggling with uncertainty of heart about their assurance, and unbelievers living comfortably with a false assurance, Guthrie shows what a true interest in Christ is, and answers important and common questions that arise. John Owen, based on this one book, regarded Guthrie as one of the greatest ministers to have ever written.
All of Guthrie’s teaching and pastoral experience were poured into The Christian’s Great Interest – his only book. The remarkable fact that is has gone through more than eighty editions and been translated into several languages testifies to its value. This book describes in a clear and attractive style what it means to be a Christian, and how to become one.
This book is all about Christ: the Christian’s great interest should be Christ; the unbeliever needs to develop an interest in Christ. It describes in a simple, clear, and attractive style what it means to be a Christian, and how to become one.
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Believers’ Evidences for Eternal Life (Francis Roberts)
$19.50We have all experienced it: that moment when Satan whispers in your ear, “You aren’t really a true Christian or you wouldn’t think or behave like that.” It is one of our enemy’s most effective tactics to spread uncertainty and render God’s people ineffective with self-doubt.
But how do we know we are a Christian? Roberts writes, “to be in a gracious state is true happiness. But to know ourselves to be in such a state is true happiness doubled upon us.” Roberts book will lend some help to Christians to discern their spiritual state and make your election and calling sure (2 Pet 1:10).
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Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance (Thomas Brooks) (#2)
$9.75One of the most important books about the subject of Christian assurance ever put into print. Having a healthy and well-founded assurance of being “in Christ” is vital to strong Christian growth and experience. There is no higher privilege than to be a child of God and to *know* that you are! — for a strong assurance brings, along with it, joy and peace in believing, strength and boldness in our witness.
This abundantly clear and valuable work, first published in 1654, still reads today like a pastor conversing with his friend.
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Gospel Assurance and Warnings (Paul Washer)
$14.50It should come as no surprise that misunderstandings about the gospel message and the nature of true conversion result in a problem with genuine assurance of salvation. A pseudo-gospel of “easy believism” has led many into careless presumption, and a poor understanding of salvation has abandoned tender consciences to near spiritual despair.
In Gospel Assurance and Warnings, Paul Washer shines the light of gospel hope as he cautions against the dangers of making an empty profession of faith and carefully explains from Scripture the basis for establishing and maintaining a sound assurance of faith.
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Faith Seeking Assurance (Anthony Burgess)
$8.50It is not uncommon for professing Christians to question the genuineness of their faith. In seasons like this, they can wonder whether it is even possible to know for sure if they are in a state of saving grace. In this book, Anthony Burgess shows that Christians not only can come to an assurance of their salvation, but they should in fact pursue having just that.
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Am I A Christian? Pocket Puritans Series (James Fraser)
$5.00James Fraser endured a long conflict with doubts. This little book, taken from his memoirs (Memoirs of the Rev. James Fraser of Brea, found in Scottish Puritans: Select Biographies, volume two), is a helpful record of how he overcame his fears and arrived at a firm assurance of his salvation in Christ. Latest volume in the Pocket Puritans Series.
In his book Heaven on Earth, Thomas Brooks wrote, ‘A man may be a true believer, and yet would give all the world, were it in his power, to know that he is a believer. To have grace, and to be sure that we have grace is heaven on this side of heaven.’ This little book can sincerely help.
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Assurance: How to know you are a Christian (J.C. Ryle)
$8.99J.C. Ryle shows us that assurance is something every Christian should desire. There are steps we can take in our search for that goal; these are clearly marked out for us by Ryle. Do you know that you are part of God’s family?
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Delighting in the Sunlit Uplands of Grace: Spurgeon on Joy
$10.75“Brothers and sisters, let us learn our need of a personal revelation, let us seek it if we have not yet received it; with a childlike spirit, let us seek it in Christ, for He only can reveal the Father to us; and when we have it let it be our joy that we see Him revealing it to others, and let this be our prayer, that the God of Jacob would yet bring others unto Christ, who shall rejoice in the light that has made glad our eyes.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon
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Our Heavenly Shepherd: Comfort and Strength from Psalm 23 (Ian Hamilton)
$8.75Psalm 23 is probably the best known and most read passage in the Bible – a wonderfully reassuring picture of the believer’s life. Through it we learn the Lord God almighty is the faithful, heavenly Shepherd of his sheep – not only faithfully leading his sheep in life but also through the valley of the shadow of death – bringing them into his house where he will dwell with them forever.
Reflecting on Psalm 23 verse by verse will help us see how rich and privileged the believer’s life is as we learn how personally God is committed to protect and bring his people to be with him to heaven.
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Finally Alive: What Happens When we are Born Again (John Piper)
$11.50When Jesus said to Nicodemus, ‘You must be born again’, the devout and learned religious leader was unsure what that meant. Not much has changed. Today ‘born again Christians’ fill churches that are seen as ineffective at best and hardly recognizably Christian in any way. The term ‘born again’ has been devalued both in society and in the church. Those claiming to be ‘born again’ live lives that are indistinguishable from those who don’t; they sin the same, embrace injustice the same, covet the same, do almost everything the same.
Being ‘born again’ is now defined by what people say that they believe. The New Testament however defines Christians very differently. It is of enormous consequence that we know what being born again really means, and that Christians know how to communicate this to others.
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