The Enduring Classics
The books that have walked with pilgrims for centuries — Augustine's confession, Bunyan's dream, the counsel of à Kempis — the old paths, still good.
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
8 books · 13 articles
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Articles
The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Plain Guide to the Story and What It Means
A plain guide to John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress: the story stage by stage, what its places and people mean, why it has lasted, and how to read it today — with the full text free.
10 min readThe Imitation of Christ: What It Is and How to Read It
What The Imitation of Christ is, who wrote it, what its four books teach, its most famous lines, what to weigh as you read, and a simple way to read it that has worked for six hundred years.
9 min readAugustine’s Confessions: A Reader’s Guide
A reader’s guide to Augustine’s Confessions: what it is, the story of his conversion book by book, why the last four books are about memory and time, the famous lines, and how to read it today.
9 min readSinners in the Hands of an Angry God: What Edwards Actually Said
A summary of Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: what happened at Enfield in 1741, what the sermon argues, what people get wrong about it, and how to read it today — with the full text free.
10 min readWhat Is the Trinity?
The Trinity is the Christian understanding of God: one God, eternally Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Here is what it means, why it matters, and how it shapes the gospel.
8 min readAbsolute Surrender by Andrew Murray: A Guide
Andrew Murray’s classic presses one question: have you given yourself wholly to God? A guide to Absolute Surrender — its message, its themes, and how to read it.
8 min readThe Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life: A Guide
Hannah Whitall Smith’s beloved classic offers a secret to a happy Christian life: surrender and trust. A guide to the book, its themes, and how to read it.
8 min readThe Life and Diary of David Brainerd: A Guide
The journal of a young missionary who spent his life for God and died at 29. A guide to Brainerd’s diary — his hunger for God, his passion for souls, and how to read it.
8 min readGrace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: A Guide
John Bunyan’s spiritual autobiography traces one soul from despair to assurance. A guide to Grace Abounding — its battle for assurance, its free grace, and how to read it.
8 min readOn the Incarnation: Why God Became Man
A guide to Athanasius’s On the Incarnation: who wrote it and when, why God became man, how the argument answers death and corruption, its famous line about God becoming man, and how to read this ancient classic today.
8 min readReligious Affections: How to Tell Real Faith from Counterfeit
A plain guide to Jonathan Edwards’s Religious Affections: why he wrote it after the Great Awakening, the signs that prove nothing, the twelve marks of true grace, and how to read its hardest, most searching pages.
9 min readThe Mortification of Sin: Owen’s Method in Plain English
A plain-English guide to John Owen’s The Mortification of Sin: what “be killing sin” means, why the Spirit does the work, Owen’s practical steps, the mistakes he warns against, and how to read his dense Puritan prose.
8 min readThe Bruised Reed: Richard Sibbes for the Discouraged
A guide to Richard Sibbes’s The Bruised Reed: the promise from Isaiah behind it, how Christ deals with the weak and the discouraged, the signs of true grace in a smoking wick, and how to read this gentlest of the Puritans.
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