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Brother pastor, do you care about holiness? Please don’t give up caring. Be vigilant. Soldier on against your sin from this day to the day of your death.

by Aaron Menikoff | Vigilance” has to be the war-cry of every pastor. “The true Christian is called to be a soldier,” wrote J.C. Ryle, “and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death.” Pastors face a myriad of temptations. All are common...

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It happens every day in courts across America. A judge utters a few words, pounds his gavel on the desk, and a child receives a new family.

It happens every day in courts across America. A judge utters a few words, pounds his gavel on the desk, and a child receives a new family. This moment is always bittersweet. Adoptions take place because biological parents are either unable, unfit, or unwilling to care for the child they brought into the world. But these events are wonderful, because when the hammer strikes, that child belongs fully to parents committed to love and care for him.

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The lack of revival among Christ’s people and the lack of holiness among Christ’s leaders often accompany one another.

God is powerful, loving, and jealous for the glory of His great name. In Isaiah 44:23–24, the Lord calls Himself “Redeemer” and announces that He has saved His people and that He “will be glorified in Israel.” Indeed, God is uniquely glorified through the salvation of sinners.

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It happens every day in courts across America. A judge utters a few words, pounds his gavel on the desk, and a child receives a new family.

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We’ve mentioned when one of these books was up and coming but weren’t aware this was a forthcoming series. The series is titled, “Monographs in Baptist History” and the publisher, Pickwick Publications (under Wipf & Stock), has been kicking out one of these per month for the last three months (with forthcoming Kindle editions):

Waiting on the Spirit of Promise: The Life and Theology of Suffering of Abraham Cheare By Brian L. Hanson, Michael Haykin

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Waiting on the Spirit of Promise is a study of the life and ministry of Abraham Cheare (1626-1668), containing selections from Cheare’s works, and rescuing an important seventeenth-century Baptist from obscurity. Cheare has been overshadowed by other more celebrated Baptist contemporaries, but as the pastor of the Particular Baptist work in Plymouth, Devon, Cheare played a key role in the advance of the Baptist cause in the West Country in the 1650s. His Sighs for Sion is an excellent illustration of early Baptist piety. With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Cheare, like many other Dissenters, suffered arrest for his refusal to give up preaching. Cheare’s prison writings reveal both a sturdy faith in God and a deep-seated piety. Despite the fact that he was incarcerated in a series of “nasty prisons,” Cheare used this time of suffering to deepen his walk with God and so provide a model for his congregation of Christian integrity and joy in the midst of trial. To the very end of his life, Cheare eagerly awaited further outpourings of the Spirit of Promise upon the Church and looked forward to that day when his Lord Jesus would make all things right.

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Pages: 114 Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 03/18/2014

Pure Worship: The Early English Baptist Distinctive By Matthew Ward

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Baptists are not often thought of as leading theologians and practitioners of worship. But forgotten in history is one crucial fact: the Baptist tradition formed out of a desire to worship God purely. Early Baptists devoted immense energy to questions of worship and drew conclusions of even contemporary value. Through the seismic liturgical shifts of English society in the seventeenth century, worship was both their most galvanizing and disintegrating impulse. As time passed and terminology changed and Baptists shied away from this divisive topic, this emphasis was lost. No one today considers worship a Baptist distinctive.

Pure Worship re-creates the fascinating historical context of the early years of the English Baptists. Examining many thousands of manuscript pages, Matthew Ward pieces together an entire theology of worship that not only guided the early Baptists but also attracted the attention of many elements of English Christianity. Baptist thoughts on worship were neither minor nor tangential but the very heart of what distinguished them from the rest of England. Pure Worship offers a complete reenvisioning of what it meant to be an early Baptist and reveals their overwhelming desire to be known as pure worshippers of God.

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Pages: 258 Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 04/24/2014

Politics and Piety: Baptist Social Reform in America, 1770–1860 By Aaron Menikoff

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Historians have painted a picture of nineteenth-century Baptists huddled in clapboard meetinghouses preaching sermons and singing hymns, seemingly unaware of the wider world. According to this view, Baptists were “so heavenly-minded, they were of no earthly good.” Overlooked are the illustrative stories of Baptists fighting poverty, promoting abolition, petitioning Congress, and debating tax policy.

Politics and Piety is a careful look at antebellum Baptist life. It is seen in figures such as John Broadus, whose first sermon promoted temperance, David Barrow, who formed an anti-slavery association in Kentucky, and in a Savannah church that started a ministry to the homeless. Not only did Baptists promote piety for the good of their churches, but they did so for the betterment of society at large. Though they aimed to change America one soul at a time, that is only part of the story. They also engaged the political arena, forcefully and directly. Simply put, Baptists were social reformers.

Relying on the ideas of rank-and-file Baptists found in the minutes of local churches and associations, as well as the popular, parochial newspapers of the day, Politics and Piety uncovers a theologically minded and controversial movement to improve the nation. Understanding where these Baptists united and divided is a key to unlocking the differences in evangelical political engagement today.

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Pages: 244 Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 05/29/2014

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