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Salvation


A.A. Hodge   A.A. Hodge (1823-1886), Professor in Systematic Theology at Princeton Seminary from 1877 until his death in 1886.

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• A Comparison of Systems

• Predestination


Abraham Kuyper   Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was an extraordinary figure uniquely capable of wearing several hats throughout his long public career as pastor, theologian, scholar, journalist, educator and statesman. Although he began in the parish ministry, he moved on to become editor of two periodicals; to found the Antirevolutionary Party, the first Dutch political party and the first Christian Democratic party in the world; and to establish the Free University, a Christian university established on Reformed principles. He was first elected to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament in 1874 and eventually served as Prime Minister from 1901 to 1905. Kuyper's thought was introduced to North America in 1898, when he delivered the Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary.

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• Calling and Repentance


Al Martin   Al Martin, has been an elder at the Trinity Baptist Church of Montville, New Jersey since its inception in 1967. Over thirty years of pastoral experience and an evident gift of pointed applicatory preaching have made Pastor Martin a widely recognized counselor and pastor.

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• What is a Biblical Christian?

• The Practical Implications of Calvinism


A. M. Toplady being converted through a Methodist lay preacher, Toplady was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, in Dublin. He took Anglican orders in 1762, and later became vicar of Broadhembury, in Devon. In 1775 he assumed the pastorate of the French Calvinist chapel in London. He was a powerful preacher and a vigourous Calvinist, bitterly opposed to John Wesley. He wrote the [i]Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England[/i] (2 vols., 1774) and The Church of England Vindicated from the Charge of Arminianism (1769). His fame rests, however, on his hymns, e.g., "A debtor to mercy alone"; "A sovereign Protector I have"; "From whence this fear and unbelief?"; and especially "Rock of Ages" (appended to an article calculating the "National Debt" in terms of sin).

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• Christ Our Passover

• The Resurrection of Christ

• The Suffering and Death of Christ


A.W. Pink   A.W. Pink (1886-1952), a native of Nottingham, England, whose life as a pastor and writer was spent in a variety of locations in the British Isles, the United States, and Australia.

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• Another Gospel

• The Decrees of God

• The Foreknowledge of God

• The Word of Forgiveness

• The Law and the Saint

• Mediatorial Union

• Objections to God’s Sovereignty Answered

• Salvation from the Pleasure of Sin

• Regeneration

• Repentance

• Saving Faith

• The Great Change

• The Way of Salvation


Barry Hofstetter, Professor of Theology and Biblical Interpretation at The Center for Urban Theological Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

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• Perspectives on Predestination


B.B. Caldwell

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• How We May Know We are Born of God


B.B. Warfield   B.B. Warfield (1851-1921), the famed Princeton professor has a well earned reputation as a scholar and teacher of the faith.

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• Statement of the Reformed Faith

• Election

• What Fatalism Is

• Christ’s Little Ones


Bob Vincent, M.Div.

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• The Problem of God and an Eternal Hell


C.F. Boerkoel

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• Almost Lost – But Saved And

• The Sword of Gods’ Justice


Charles W. Bronson

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• The Extent of the Atonement


C. H. Spurgeon   C.H. Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Baptist preacher who remains highly influential amongst Reformed Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers."

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• Justification

• Particular Redemption

• "SALVATION IS OF THE LORD!"


Rev. Cornelius Van Til   Rev. Cornelius Van Til, (1895-1987) began his teaching career in 1928 as Professor of Apologetics at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1929 he was one of four Princeton professors to break away and found a new seminary, Westminster, as a conservative alternative to the more liberal Princeton. Van Til taught apologetics at Westminster from 1929 until his retirement in 1972, a 44 year career, all in all.

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• The Defense of Christianity

• Why I Believe in God


C. R. Vaughan was a life-long friend of Robert Dabney, and later his biographer, is one of a group of Southern Presbyterian ministers and theologians whose writings are coming to be increasingly valued. After serving pastorates in Virginia, and though dogged by ill-health, he succeeded Dabney as Professor of Theology at Union Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, in 1893. He died in 1911.

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• The Evidences of Regeneration


Rev. C. Harinck

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• You Must be Born Again


Damian Romano   Damian Romano

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• Complete Grace


Darren Middleton   Rev. Darren Middleton, Pastor of SEMPA Presbyterian Church in Boort, Victoria, Australia; Webmaster of SEMPA's site PressieChurch.org

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• Theology and Life: Pastoral Implications of the New Perspective

• Theology and Life: Pastoral Implications of the New Perspective

• Theology and Life: Pastoral Implications of the New Perspective


David Black (1762-1806) was pastor of Lady Yester’s, Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1794 until his death.

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• The Deceitfulness of the Heart


Rev. David J. Engelsma   Rev. David J. Engelsma, Calvin College (A. B.), Protestant Reformed Seminary (B. D.), and Calvin Theological Seminary (Th. M.). He is Professor of Dogmatics and Old Testament Studies at the Theological School of the Protestant Reformed Churches in Grandville, MI.

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• The ‘WORLD’ of John 3:16 Does Not Mean


Dr. David W. Jones   Dr. David W. Jones, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

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• Are Biblical Covenants Dissoluble?


David H. Linden teaches Bible Studies & Theological Studies at Action International Ministries - an evangelical, nondenominational missionary-sending agency working in urban centers of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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• Charles Finney’s Doctrine of Justification


Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones   Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones a Welsh Presbyterian Church in Aberavon, South Wales. Known for his ministry at Westminster Chapel, numerous books, and expository sermons.

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• The Everlasting Covenant

• God’s Ultimate Purpose

• The Authority of the Holy Spirit

• Judicial Hardening


Douglas Jones   Douglas Jones, Senior Fellow and Permanent Member of the Board of Trustees at New Saint Andrews College

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• Why & What:


Ebenezer Erskine   Ebenezer Erskine, (June 22, 1680 - June 2, 1754), was a Scottish church leader, chief founder of the Secession Church (formed of dissenters from the Church of Scotland).

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• Thoughts on Unbelief


Erroll Hulse, serves as associate pastor of Leeds Reformed Baptist Church in Leeds, England.

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• Joy Because of Justification


Francis Turretin   Francis Turretin (1623-1687), the Italian Reformer who followed Calvin and Beza in Geneva.

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• Justification: Forensic or Moral?


Frederick S. Leahy, was A professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland.

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• The Wrath of God in Relation to the Atonement


Dr. Gary D. Long  

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• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement

• A Doctrinal Study on the Extent of the Atonement


Gardiner Spring   Gardiner Spring, (1785-1873), attended Berwick Academy in Maine and later graduated from Yale University in 1805. He attended Andover Seminary from 1809 - 1810. His first pastoral call was to the Brick Church of New York City in 1810 and his entire ministerial career of 63 years was served at this post. He is best known for the Gardiner Spring Resolutions of 1861. This is arguably one of the most significant actions ever taken in the history of the Presbyterian Church. In essence, the resolutions required pastors and members of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to swear political allegiance to the Federal Government of the United States. By themselves the resolutions would have been controversial enough, but their proposal and enactment came just at the start of the Civil War.

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• Conviction for Sin


G. C. Berkouwer, (1904-1996) was for years the leading theologian of the Gereformeerde Kerken in the Netherlands (GKN). He occupied the Chair in systematic theology of the Faculty of Theology, at Free University.

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• Human Freedom


G. J. Vos   Geerhardus Johannes Vos (aka G. J. Vos) (1862–1949) was an American, Reformed theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology. He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology.

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• The Christ


George Whitefield   George Whitefield (1714 - 1770), was a minister in the Church of England and one of the leaders of the Methodist movement.

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• The Almost Christian


Rev. G. H. Kersten   Rev. G. H. Kersten, is the man who, in 1907, united various independent congregations and groups into one denomination which we know as "the Netherlands Reformed Congregations." In popular parlance, they are sometimes referred to as the "the most conservative" of the (Dutch) Reformed churches.

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• The Covenant of Grace

• The Doctrine of Sin

• Election


Glen Barry

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• A Dialogue of Conflicting Concepts


Rev. Gordon Girod was pastor of Seventh Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan for many years.

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• Irresistible Grace

• Limited Atonement

• Perseverance of the Saints

• Total Depravity

• Unconditional Election


Graham Buck   Graham Buck

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• No Sacrifice Remains:


J. Gresham Machen   J. Gresham Machen

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• The Doctrine of the Atonement

• The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance

• On the Deity of Christ

• Faith and Works

• Life Founded Upon Truth 

• The Living Saviour


Hermn Bavinck   Herman Bavinck

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• The Doctrine of God

• The Origin, Essence, and Purpose of Man

• Supralapsarianism and Infralapsarianism


Dr. H. Henry Meeter, served for thirty years as Chairman of the Bible Department at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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• The Place of Faith in the Calvinistic System


Horace Bonar   Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), has been called “the prince of Scot­tish hymn writers.”

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• Not Faith, But Christ


Rev. Hugh Martin (1821-1885), was one of the young men training for the ministry of the Church of Scotland who, in 1843, cast in their lot with the Free Church of Scotland. He later became minister of Greyfriars Free Church, Edinburgh.

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• Atonement and the Covenant of Grace


Ichabod S. Spencer, was a pastor and the author of an incredible two-volume book, A Pastor's Sketches.

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• I Can’t Repent


I.C. Herendeen

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• Accepting Christ

• God's Indisputable Sovereignty


James E. Adams   James E.Adams is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in Greek and received an A.B. degree. He earned a B.D. from the Reformed Episcopal Seminary, the S.T.M from the Temple University School of Theology in Homiletics under Andrew W. Blackwood, and the Ph.D from the University of Missouri. He also did graduate work at the Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary and held a post-doctoral fellowship in Psychology at the University of Illinois under O. Hobart Mowrer.

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• Decisional Regeneration


James Buchanan was born in 1804. He held several pastorates before becoming Professor Apologetics and later of Systematic Theology at the Free Church College in Edinburgh.

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• The Work of the Spirit in Enlightening the Mind

• The Work of the Spirit as the Spirit of Prayer


James Haldane   James Haldane, (July 14, 1768 - February 8, 1851) was a Scottish independent church leader.

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• THE GOSPEL


James Harrison, pastor of Red Mills Baptist Church, Mahopac Falls, N.Y.

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• Chosen But Free


J.C. Ryle   J.C. Ryle, in 1841 was ordained as a minister in the Anglican Church, (Church of England). In 1880 Ryle was named the first Bishop of the newly constituted diocese of Liverpool. Throughout his ministry he became known and beloved as a defender of the evangelical reformed faith as expressed in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, of the Church of England.

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• Election

• Self-Righteousness


Jeffery C. Nesbitt

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• A Gospel Summary


Jeff Rojan, publisher of the Reformed Layman.

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• A Conversation Concerning Pretended Liberty of Conscience


Jerome Zanchius   Jerome Zanchius was taught by Peter Martyr Vermigli, the greatest of the Italian Reformers. In 1551 he left Italy and accepted the professorship of Old Testament at the college of St. Thomas in Strasbourg. In 1553, Peter Martyr joined the College also. Zanchius remained at the College after Peter Martyr left for Zurich in 1553.

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• Absolute Predestination


James Henley Thornwell   James Henley Thornwell (1812-1862), was a distinguished Southern Presbyterian pastor and educator. He served in the pulpit ministry on three separate occasions and twice as a professor in the College of South Carolina.

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• Outline of the Covenant of Grace


jIM eLLIS   Jim Ellis has a B.Sc. in engineering and a M.A. in biblical studies. He is a gifted layman and attends an independent Bible Church.

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• Agorazo in 2 Peter 2:1

• What is Hyper-Calvinism?

• Sufficient for All?


Jimmy Li currently an undergraduate fourth year student at UCLA studying political science

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• Impossible Neutrality


Dr. J.I. Packer   Dr. J. I. Packer was educated at Oxford University. Packer has served as assistant minister at St. John's Church of England, Harborne, Birmingham and Senior Tutor and Principal at Tyndale Hall (an Anglican seminary in Bristol). He preaches and lectures widely in Great Britain and America and contributes frequently to theological periodicals. His writings include Fundamentalism and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and Knowing God. Currently Dr. Packer is Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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• J. I. Packer's introduction to a 1958 reprint

• Sola Fide

• Evangelical Annihilationism in Review

• Conscience, Choice, and Character

• What Did the Cross Achieve?

• Freedom and Authority

• The Old Gospel and the New

• Situational Ethics

• The Plan of God


James M. Boice   Dr. James Montgomery Boice (1938-2000), was a successful inner city pastor and articulate spokesman for the Reformed faith in America and around the world. He was the pastor of Philadelphia’s historic Tenth Presbyterian Church (1968-2000) and his teaching continues to be aired on The Bible Study Hour radio and Internet broadcast. In 1996 he brought The Bible Study Hour, God’s Word Today magazine, Philadelphia Conference of Reformation Theology, and other Bible teaching ministries under the umbrella of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. 

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• God’s Providence

• The True God


A.A. Hodge   Dr. Joel Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics, as well as Academic Dean for students from the Heritage Reformed Congregations. He is currently a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a position he has held for 20 years. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited fifty books and contributed over fifteen hundred articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology.

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• Justification by Faith Alone


John Armstrong and wife Anita   Dr. John Armstrong is a former pastor and church-planter, of more than twenty years, the author/editor of eight books, and the author of hundreds of magazine, journal, and Web based articles. John has served as the editor-in-chief of the ACT 3 Review since 1992. Besides this ministry of writing Dr. Armstrong serves as an adjunct professor of evangelism at Wheaton College Graduate School.

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• Justification by Faith Alone


John Barber   Dr. John Barber, Pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

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• Dave Hunt's What Love is This: Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God

• Luther and Calvin on Music and Worship


John Blanchard   John Blanchard is an internationally known Christian preacher, teacher, apologist and author. He has written 25 books, including two of Britian's most widely used evangelistic presentations, Right With God and the booklet Ultimate Questions.

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• Ultimate Questions


John Byl

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• Free Will and Responsibility


John Calvin   John Calvin (1509 – 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism or Reformed theology. In Geneva, he rejected Papal authority, established a new scheme of civic and ecclesiastical governance, and created a central hub from which Reformed theology was propagated. He is renowned for his teachings and writings - especially The Institution of Christian Religion.

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• The Doctrine of Election

• Pure Preaching of the Word

• The Salvation of All Men

• The Word Our Only Rule


John Cheesman, is the Vicar of St James' Church, Westgate, Ramsgate, Kent.

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• Another Gospel

• The End of the Gospel: Worship


John Colquhoun, (1748-1827) former pastor New Church in South Leith, Scotland. Educated at Glasgow University. Shortly after his conversion he walked all the way from Luss to Glasgow, a distance in all of about fifty miles, to buy a copy of Thomas Boston's Fourfold State. This book had a moulding influence on his early Christian life. He came to esteem it next to his Bible. The influence of Boston's teaching was later to permeate his ministry and writings.

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• The Difference Between


John R. de Witt.

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• The High Triumph of Christ


Dr. John M. Frame   Dr. John M. Frame, Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL

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• Introduction to the Reformed Faith, part 1

• Introduction to the Reformed Faith, part 2


John Gerstner   John Gerstner (1914-1996) was a Professor of Church History at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He earned both a Master of Divinity degree and a Master of Theology degree from Westminster Theological Seminary. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University in 1945. Dr. Gerstner was known as an authority on the theology and life of Jonathan Edwards.

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• Every Man Must Be a Theologian

• Justification by Faith Alone


John L. Girardeau   John L. Girardeau (1825-1898), Professor in Columbia Theological Seminary, South Carolina.

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• Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism


John Kennedy

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• Hyper-Evangelism: Another Gospel, Though a Mighty Power


Professor John Murray   Professor John Murray, (1898-1975), Former Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary

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• From Faith to Faith

• The Adamic Administration

• Adoption

• Arminianism and the Atonement

• The Atonement

• Calvin, Dordt, and Westminster on Predestination

• Calvin on the Sovereignty of God

• The Covenant of Grace

• Definitive Sanctification

• From Faith to Faith

• Irresistible Grace

• Law and Grace

• The Reformed Faith and Arminianism

• The Sovereignty of God


John Owen   John Owen (1616-1683), is unquestionably one of the greatest Puritan divines. Owen was actively involved in political affairs, and during the Protectorate he was at the head of Oxford University, appointed dean of Christ Church in 1651 and vice chancellor of the university in 1652. In 1653 he was awarded the D.D. by Oxford.

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• The Atonement

• For Whom Did Christ Die?

• How are Believers Guided into 'All Truth'?

• An Exposition of John 3:16

• The Nature, Causes, and Means of Regeneration


John Piper   Dr. John Piper, Pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church

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• The Reformed Faith and Racial Harmony


John Reisinger   John Reisinger is the Editor of Sound of Grace. He is an evangelist and Bible conference speaker. He has pastored churches in the U.S.A. and Canada. He has spent ten years in church planting and established four Sovereign Grace churches.

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• There are Only Two Religions in the Whole World


Dr. John K. Tarwater, Director of Student Life at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Adjunct Professor of Ethics and Church History at Southeastern College at Wake Forest

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• Are Biblical Covenants Dissoluble?


Jonathan Edwards   Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), pastor, revivalist, Christian philosopher, missionary, and college president, is widely regarded as North America’s greatest theologian.

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• Final Judgment


Joseph Alleine, (1634-1668). No Puritan nonconformist name is so affectionately cherished as is that of Joseph Alleine. His chief literary work was An Alarm to the Unconverted (1672), otherwise known as The Sure Guide to Heaven, which had an enormous circulation. His Remains appeared in 1674.

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• Mistakes About Conversion


Joseph R. Nally   Rev. Joseph R. Nally, Theological Editor, Third Millennium Ministries, (IIIM).

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• Looking Forward, Looking Back to Christ


Rev. Ken Johns

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• Election Love Before Time


Dr. Loraine Boettner   Dr. Loraine Boettner is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (Th.B., 1928; Th.M., 1929), where he studied Systematic Theology under the late Dr. C. W. Hodge. In 1933 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1957 the degree of Doctor of Literature. Author of several books.

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• Efficacious Grace

• Limited Atonement

• Objections Answered

• Perseverance of the Saints

• Salvation by Grace


Rev. L.R. Shelton, Sr.   Rev. L.R. Shelton, Sr. is the founder of Radio Missions, a ministry which still broadcasts his thirty-minute Voice of Truth messages which were recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.

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• God’s Election in John 3:16


L.R. Shelton, Jr.

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• Christ and the Seeking Soul


Dr. Mark A. Herzer   Mark A. Herzer pastor, Christ Covenant PCA Church, Hatboro, PA. and Visiting Lecturer in New Testament, Systematic Theology, and Philosophy, at Wycliffe Theological College, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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• Arminianism Exposed


Michael Bremmer.

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• The Deity of Jesus Christ


Michael Horton   Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine, and host of the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, The White Horse Inn.

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• How Can We Know God?


Sister Monica Hellwig