Enosh wakes in a dark wilderness with no memory of how he came there. A scribe named Ezra has been sent to lead him down, through the gate, across the river, into the Duat, the night-country of the dead.
What he finds there is a scale. Heart after heart is laid against the perfect Law, and pan after pan strikes the floor while the feather never stirs. Below wait the deliberate sins, the diviners and the thieves, the frozen deep where the betrayers are fixed in the ice, and a Mouth that does not end what it swallows.
Enosh knows his own heart will fall. He has already felt the heat rise to meet it. And then, against every law of that place, a hand he never asked for catches him by the back of the neck.
An imaginative retelling of Dante's Inferno, told in borrowed Egyptian shadow and built on the bedrock of the Reformed faith. In an age that would rather hell were empty, or temporary, or a figure of speech, The Hand That Caught Me portrays eternal judgment as the Scriptures portray it, and the mercy that meets it without lowering the scale.
A Bunyan-style pilgrimage for the 21st century church.
In an age of deconstruction, confusion, and competing “truths,” Pilgrim’s Transgress and the Holy War Renewed invites readers to walk beside Veritinus Solus, a weary but steadfast pilgrim seeking solid ground in a world gone soft on truth.
From the crumbling halls of the Ecclesia of Error to the treacherous Path of Relativism, from the glittering Quicksands of Prosperity to the deceptive Fog of New Age, Solus meets flesh-and-blood embodiments of today’s most seductive errors: relativism, consumerism, the prosperity “gospel,” ecumenism without truth, social gospel reductionism, legalism, modernism, New Age syncretism, and more.
Along the way, Solus learns to wield “Scripture’s sharpened sword” against flattering half-truths, philosophical pretensions, and spiritual counterfeits.
The doctrine of hell is under attack. Scholars who once defended eternal conscious torment have quietly walked away from it. Annihilationists argue the wicked simply cease to exist. Universalists insist that God's love must ultimately win every soul. Both positions have gained significant evangelical traction -- and both fail the test of Scripture.
Can you trust the New Testament you hold in your hands today? The answer is found not in blind faith but in the manuscript tradition itself. With more than 5,800 Greek manuscripts and over 25,000 total witnesses in other languages, the New Testament is the best-attested document from the ancient world. No other ancient text even comes close.
What does the Bible actually say about the end times, and what has the church believed across twenty centuries of interpretation? The Eschatology Puzzle Book is an 8-section puzzle collection that walks readers through the biblical foundations of prophetic literature and then examines the major eschatological positions in church history: Partial Preterism, Amillennialism, Postmillennialism, Historic Premillennialism, and Dispensationalism. Each section opens with a substantive essay, then reinforces the key people, texts, and arguments.
Faith is strengthened by engagement, not just reading, but wrestling. The Apologetics Puzzle Book invites Christian adults to explore the great tradition of defending the faith through an entirely new lens: puzzle-solving. Eight sections journey through the full arc of Christian apologetics. "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." — 1 Peter 3:15
From the Apostles' Creed to the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, the church has always put its faith into words. The Creeds and Confessions Puzzle Book is an 8-section puzzle collection that walks readers through nearly two thousand years of confessional Christianity, from the ancient baptismal formulas of the early church to the Reformation confessions, the Westminster Standards, the Three Forms of Unity, the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession, and the major evangelical declarations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
There is one gospel. Paul's letter to the Galatians makes this impossible to miss. If anyone preaches a gospel other than the one the apostles delivered, let him be accursed. The Greek word is anathema. Every movement covered in this book claims, in some form, to be Christian. Every one of them preaches something other than justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
They were not Anabaptists. That is where any honest account of the Particular Baptists must begin. The Particular Baptists who gathered in London in the 1640s were Calvinist theologians who emerged from English Puritanism, held the five points of Dort without reservation, and produced two of the most rigorous confessions of faith in the entire Reformed tradition. Their quarrel with their Presbyterian contemporaries was not over soteriology. It was over the nature of the new covenant and the proper subjects of its initiating rite.