That's a great collection of books. Certainly motivates to read more spiritual books. Thank you! Glory to God❤

I love your content, I hope you can keep growing this channel!

It would have been nice if you had shown the index of prayers and the index of prayer authors. Thanks for this review nevertheless.

I love Leland Ryken! 😊 Thanks for letting me know about this book as I hadn't heard of it before. I recently got the newly revised ESV Literary Study Bible, which is the same content as the previous ESV Literary Study Bible but it is significantly improved aesthetically, and so far I love it. I think it was done by Ryken's son, who is also quite literary thanks to his dad Leland Ryken. 😊

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LSB and NASB (1995 text) are my favorites.

Slave is a better translation for the stronger minded than being translated bond-servant is for the more sensitive/liberal reader. The only thing im not 100% about is the use of Yahweh instead of the LORD. The LORD just sounds better and is a safer term when referring to God the Father without assuming His name.

Lsb is much better than the esv in my opinion

Is not Tony Lane the Lead Editor of Crossway's Institutes project. And I've heard from one of Lane's associates that he just passed away recently while the project is still in the process. I suppose if that is the case, then Crossway would slow down on the publication of the New translation of the Institutes.

Yes please do a new video on the LSB! 😊 I'd love to hear more of your thoughts about it! I know you did an ESV vs. LSB video a while back, but it'd be nice to get your more updated thoughts on the LSB now that you've read the whole thing! Personally I love the ESV but the LSB has been growing on me, it really does seem like an improved version of the NASB95 - more "literal" but also more readable than the NASB95, and even more literal and more readable than the ESV. Although I think the ESV is still more literarily beautiful than the LSB. At least that's my thoughts so far, but I haven't finished reading all of the LSB.

The Motyer duo is remarkable. It will force you to put the rest on the back burner. He’s that good. Nobody has ever made Isaiah this accessible. He was a master. RIP

I don't understand religion. But it's an interesting concept that God became flesh, or the Word of God?

Thankyou for your thoughts on the excellent John Owen. I recommend reading Owen's volume 15 where he deals with Liturgy. Correct worship in church is essential if we are to walk with God as He requires.

Do you have the set The Lost Sermons of C.H. Spurgeon? Also, what do you think about the new edition for Spurgeon's sermons from A Pilgrim Coffer? If you have them, I would like to see a in depth video / review of them.

About Calvin, the Banner edition is not good, or?

15:11 - thank you so much for the update! There is nothing online or Crossways website. God bless 😇

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this fine book. I read through it this December and got a lot out of it. It helped me to focus on what Christmas really means to the church and the whole world. I may go through it again next December.

Thanks, brother! 😊 I always appreciate and enjoy your videos and book reviews, and I only wish they came more often lol, but I'm glad for all of them!

What makes a standard Bible "standard"? Is there an international Bible standards committee somewhere that assesses Bibles for compliance to standards, or is "standard" just an aspiration? Why is "standard" the middle name for almost every translation?

If you can make a translation swap and no one notice, that tells you something too. That is, they're not familiar enough with the text to even know that it changed.

I've been tempted to switch to the LSB for Sunday School purposes, but because it's not widely available in economy versions (that is, cheaper versions), if I started using it in class, I'd be the only one who had one. And I'm not wild about endorsing the NASB for plain-folks, though many people have it.

Thanks for the review

Introductory Paul Helm, Calvin: A Guide for the Perplexed (T&T Clark 2008) _____, The Beginnings: Word and Spirit in Conversion (Banner of Truth 1986) _____, The Callings: The Gospel in the World (Banner of Truth 1987) -----, The Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell (Banner of Truth 1989) A. A. Hodge, Westminster Confession: A Commentary (Banner of Truth 2004) Anthony Hoekema, Saved by Grace (Eerdmans 1995) John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied (Eerdmans 1996) Roger Nicole, Our Sovereign Saviour (Christian Focus 2001) J. I. Packer, Concise Theology: A Guide to Historical Christian Beliefs (Tyndale 2001) Intermediate Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine Paul Helm, The Providence of God Roger Nicole, Standing Forth (Mentor 2001) J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Crossway 2010) O. Palmer Robertson, The Christ of the Prophets (P&R 2004) Carl Trueman, John Owen: Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man (Ashgate 2007) Fred Zaspel, ed. The Theology of B. B. Warfield: A Systematic Summary (Crossway 2010) Advanced William Cunningham, Historical Theology, vols 1-2 (Banner of Truth 1960) _____, The Reformers & the Theology of the Reformation (Banner of Truth 1979) John Frame, The Doctrine of God (P&R 2002) _____, The Doctrine of the Christian Life (P&R 2008) Paul Helm, Calvin at the Centre (Oxford 2010) _____, Eternal God: A Study of God without Time (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2011) _____, Faith with Reason (Oxford 2003) _____, John Calvin's Ideas (Oxford 2006) Vern Poythress, Chance and the Sovereignty of God (Crossway 2014) Thomas Schreiner, New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ (Baker 2008) _____, Paul, Apostle of God's Glory in Christ (IVP 2006) Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology (P&R 1997) Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics, vols 1-5 (Lexham Press 2014-) Bruce Waltke, An Old Testament Theology (Zondervan 2007) The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield (Baker 1978)

Hold ing it dine

Thank you, very helpful!

God bless you

I would consider that the Reformed Expository and the Preaching the Word in the same category. They also have authors that have crossed over. Especially Ryken. The Zondervan Exegetical commentary on John is by Edward Klink is from a broadly Reformed and is technical. I did research for some of his work. He also shared in the next five years Crossway is going to make a technical commentary series. I prefer technical commentaries. So authors like Moo, Schreiner and Beale are some of my go to favorite authors. I’m from a Baptistic background. However I am not a sabbatarian.

When to start this book in 2025? Thank you!!

Trinity is a man made theology.... Jesus never talked about Trinity. If Jesus was God, why did He say, “The Father is greater than I” in John 14:28?

Jesus is the son of God. He always used to pray to his father while he was on earth. If Jesus was God, why did He say, “The Father is greater than I” in John 14:28?

As for me, I came from a Pentecostal background where labels were everything. So actually when I started to grow in my knowledge of the word and began to reject a lot of the teaching I was raised in, I absolutely had a negative bias towards labels. They threw me off and I only wanted to hear Bible. I preferred that. Had anyone told me labels, I would have either rejected or become numb to the same blind following of labels rather than being a worker of the Lord and doing the work myself to understand the Bible. I’ve actually refused to read Calvin’s work for a long time because I see how it’s a topic that divides. I would agree that for sure the 4 points of Calvin are biblical. But interestingly the way MacArthur teaches “doctrine of actual atonement” is more convincing than Calvin’s.

my wife and I were gifted this last year and love it

Thank you

Early on, as an initial introduction to Reformed Theology, I came across the following in no particular order, which I found very helpful: The Sovereignty of God, A. W. Pink, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, J. I. Packer, God Centred Evangelism, R. B. Kuiper, The Christian View of Man, J. Gresham-Machen, Summary of Christian Doctrine, Louis Berkhof, Human Nature in its fourfold state, Thomas Boston, Sermons on the Shorter Catechism, Thomas Watson, 3 vols. "A body of Divinity", "The Ten Commandments", and "The Lord's Prayer".

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Bonhoeffer the blank canvas. Polarizing Structure at the heart of his project Overestimating the pious Bonboeffer. Metaxas is ill-equipped to write the book Misconstruing Bonheoffer’s time in the US, Union seminary. Lack of understanding of Bonhoeffer’s context eg Barmen declaration. Lack of understanding of German theology. Reductionist view of German church’s support of the Third Reich. Doesn’t handle Bonheoffer’s “pacifism” or prison theology adequately. Bonhoeffer does not fit into our contemporary American Christian categories.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZyom5Rrp6qtm7M The problem with Metaxas Bonhoeffer

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WORD'S OF CHRIST IN RED-------I just purchased the ESV Study Bible by Crossway (on Amazon). It is a black leather edition and I love everything about it EXCEPT that it DOES NOT have the words of Christ in red. There is a so-called large print edition which has red letters (probably a larger Bible) But I was unable to find the ESV Study Bible with Christ's words in red. Have I overlooked and missed the edition I was looking for?

I wish I would have seen this video before I started reading the Institutes (Hendricks edition). I currently.am in book II and enjoying it. The reformed church was blessed to have theologians like John Calvin and Martin Luther. Thank you for posting. Blessings in Christ.

Excellent overview sir. I like that you include the historical perspective in describing the three tiers of reformed individuals. Much to say here. Blessings in Christ.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4nVYaV8pdepgK8 Eric Metaxs is WRONG About Bonhoeffer!

Eric Metaxas biography has been roughly criticized by Bonhoeffer scholars.

Thanks for the review. just place my order!

Gracias por el video. Me has entusiasmado a buscar este libro, espero encontrarlo en español. Saludos desde México

I've seen that Bonhoeffer scholars, as well as the Bonhoeffer family, is against Metaxas' interpretation of Bonhoeffer. Do you have a suggestion of any other biography about him?

I have several Bibles in different translations but some are study bibles, some journaling bibles but none are premium bibles. The most I’ve spent is for my genuine leather wide margin ESV reference Bible. I want to mark this one and leave it for my children. I am also in the process of getting what I already have in large print, because my eyes are aging and the small font doesn’t work for me anymore. I will donate all my small font bibles once I get them in large print.

Are Reformed Baptist Reformed? John Calvin: "For those who, on pretense of the incapacity of infants, exclude them from baptism, not only unjustly DEFRAUD them of the grace of divine adoption, but WICKEDLY tear away from them that which had been given them by God. For the promise of salvation, which is contained in baptism, is not less applicable to the children of believers than it was to the infants of the Jews under the Old Testament." (Institutes of the Christian Religion, 4.16.8) Charles Hodge: "The children of believing parents have, therefore, as much right to the ordinances of the church as adults. To deny them this right is to OBLITERATE one of the grand peculiarities of the plan of redemption." (Systematic Theology, Vol. 3, p. 588) B. B. Warfield: "The Anabaptist SECTS... deny that the children of believers have a right to be admitted to membership in the church. In doing so, they undermine the continuity of the covenant of grace, which is a cornerstone of Reformed theology." (The Plan of Salvation, Chapter 4) Francis Turretin: "The visible church is defined as the society of those who profess the true religion and their children. That infants belong to the church and ought to be counted among its members is expressly proved… It cannot be denied without subverting the covenant." (Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 18.6.3) The Synod of Dort: "Since we must make judgments about God's will from His Word, which testifies that the children of believers are holy, not by nature but in virtue of the covenant of grace in which they are included with their parents, godly parents ought not to doubt the election and salvation of their children whom God calls out of this life in infancy." (Canons of Dort, First Head, Article 17) Heinrich Bullinger: "The sacraments of the Old and New Testaments are the same in substance... Therefore, baptism has come in place of circumcision." (Decades, Fourth Decade, Sermon 9) The Westminster Confession of Faith: "Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptized." (Westminster Confession of Faith, 28.4) Herman Witsius: "The covenant made with Abraham in Genesis 17 is the same covenant of grace revealed in the New Testament... The right of infants to the covenant sign remains." (The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man, Book 4, Chapter 9) I appreciate your effort, excitement, and teaching with this video, but I can't say you're part of the same theological tradition as me (Reformed) and be intellectually honest at the same time. It is really a different tradition. As you can see, Infant Baptism is an essential issue for our tradition.

Here is something they both got wrong: Who killed Goliath, David or Elhanan? 2 Samuel 21:19 ESV "And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam." LSB "There was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam." This is clearly wrong! Why do the publishers allow these kinds of clear errors in their "literal" "accurate" translation? Inquiring minds want to know.