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Thoughts for Young Men | Part IV
“A small leak will sink a great ship, and a small spark will kindle a great fie, and a little allowed sin in like manner will ruin an immortal soul.” - J.C. Ryle
Thoughts for Young Men | Part III
“It is only when self is nothing and Christ is all our confidence, it is then only that we shall do great exploits.” - J. C. Ryle
Thoughts for Young Men | Part II
“But still every age and condition has its own peculiar snares and temptations, and it is well to know them. He that is forewarned is forearmed.” - J.C. Ryle
Thoughts for Young Men | Part I
I am growing old myself, but there are few things I remember so well as the days of my youth. I have a most distinct recollection of the joys and the sorrows, the hopes and fears, the temptations and the difficulties, the mistaken judgments and misplaced affections, the errors and the aspirations, which surround and accompany a young man's life. if I can only say something to keep some young man in the right way, and preserve him from faults and sins, which may mar his prospects both for time and eternity, I shall be very thankful. - J.C. Ryle
Talon’s 2023 Top 5
Year 1 of the Journal is in the books! Here are my top 5 favorite books I read in 2023.
Timeline
“The purpose of history is to explain the present—to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us why the things we value are the things we should value. And it tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power—profound power. The power to define a whole society.” - Timeline, Michael Crichton
Conscience
“The conscience is your consciousness of what you believe is right and wrong.” - p. 42
Strange New World
...it is my conviction that the dramatic changes and flux we witness and experience in society today are related to the rise to cultural normativity of the expressive individual self, particularly as expressed through the idioms of the sexual revolution.” Carl R. Trueman, p. 29
Lectures to my Students | First Series
"My college lectures are colloquial, familiar, full of anecdote, and often humorous; they are purposely made so, to suit the occasion. At the end of the week I meet the students, and find them weary . . . and only in a condition to receive something which will attract and secure their attention, and fire their hearts." C.H. Spurgeon
Talking About Race
“None of us are our own independent, self-sustaining streams; we all are connected to the tides of the past, and these tides will wash up on the shores of our lives, communities, and hearts-whether we like it or not.” - Isaac Adams
No Place for Truth
In No Place for Truth Wells looks at how the modernization of America as impacted the evangelical church.
Evangelicalism Divided
Evangelicalism Divided Murray is taking a look at evangelicalism and the changes from 1950-2000.
One Assembly
Jonathan Leeman’s book One Assembly is just that, a biblical case for a church being one assembly.
Church in Hard Places
“For this reason, it is our conviction that churches that are content to merely provide material assistance to needy people are missing an opportunity to minister to them at a deeper level.” - Mez McConnel
What Is the Mission of the Church?
“The mission of the church is to go into the world and make disciples by declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit and gathering these disciples into churches, that they might worship and obey Jesus Christ now and in eternity to the glory of God the Father” - DeYoung and Gilbert
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
In Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, J.I. Packer helps us wrestle with how divine sovereignty and human responsibility are both true.
Evangelism
“Evangelism is teaching (heralding, proclaiming, preaching) the gospel (the message from God that leads us to salvation) to persuade (convince, convert).” - J. Mack Stiles
Revival & Revivalism
Murray weaves biographical accounts into the narrative, trying to follow how revivals shifted to revivalism.
Conversioin
This may be the best of the 9Marks booklet series. If not the best it is the most central. I think many of us take for granted the theology of conversion.