Miscellaneous Resources

Here are a few things I have been looking at and suggest to you for your consideration.

1. There is a promising new web site, The Aquila Report, that has just come online. This site is put together by Dr. Dominic Aquila of the PCA and it intends to provide news on the PCA and other denominations related to the PCA. I have been disappointed by ByFaith, the magazine of the PCA. There are all sorts of things about what some Church people do, but there is very little about the institutional Church. Hopefully, The Aquila Report will rectify that to some degree.

2. I finally broke down and bought an MP3 player. Once again, I'm amazed at the amount of books and sermons available online. Here are a few suggestions. Of course, there is always Sermonaudio.com. For another good list of sermons/talks by pastors and theologians, go to the Monergism website. Sermon Index has some sermons by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. The Veritas Forum is good for Christian apologetics.

There is also a growing collection of free audio books in other fields and classic literature. Free Classic Audio has about a hundred classics available. Librivox has over 1500 classic books including Augustine's City of God, Clairvaux's On Loving God, and Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History.

3. Books - One of the best books on theology that I have read in a while is Divine Revleation Explained and Vindicated. The authors include William Symington (cited in a previous post) and Patrick Fairbairn. They discuss the proper view of divine law. Fairbairn has an excellent essay on the proper use of the Old Testament. Buchanan and Calderwood defend the proper place and permanence of the moral law in Christian theology. Symington has an excellent essay on the Sabbath. In all, these men demonstrate that a defective view of the law will nearly inevitably bring about a defective view of the Gospel. As Horace Hummel noted, "The law is the question to which the Gospel provides the answer."

Guillaume de Felice's History of the Protestants of France is a very readable and inspiring history of the French Reformed Church (and its in English!). A good acquaitance with their history is helpful for appreciating the struggles of the Reformed Church throughout history and appreciating the blessings we enjoy today.

I've begun reading Tim Keller's new book The Reason for God. This book has so far exceeded all my expectations. It is far and away the best book that I have seen on apologetics in relation to answering the questions of the average modern American on Christianity. Keller has spent a long time answering these questions, and it shows. Keller's own discussions are excellent, but he also has a knack for picking out excellent quotes from the likes of Chesterton, Lewis, and a multitude of others. You can try to develop all your own answers to the questions that people ask about the faith, or you can break the learning curve and read this book.

4. I've also updated my Reformed theology bibliography for Google books.