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POSITION STATEMENTS

Below are position statements from and supported by the Elders of Trinity on topics of interest and current events.

    • How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth | Gordon Fee

    • According to Plan | Graeme Goldsworthy

    • Introduction to the Old Testament | Longman and Dillard

    • Introduction to the New Testament | Carson and Moo

    • Exegetical Fallacies | D.A. Carson

    • Dispensationalism Today | Charles Ryrie

    • Christian Beliefs | Elliot and Wayne Grudem

    • Christian Theology | Millard Erickson

    • Bible Doctrine | Wayne Grudem

    • A Theology for the Church | ed, Daniel Akin

    • Systematic Theology | Wayne Grudem

    • Systematic Theology | Lewis Sperry Chafer

    • Reflections of Disenchanted Calvinist | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • Basic Theology | Charles C. Ryrie

    • Christian Theology | Adam Harwood

    • Turning Points | Mark Noll

    • How Should We Then Live | Francis Schaeffer

    • Church History in Plain Language | Bruce Shelley

    • Eerdman's Handbook to the History of the Christian Church

    • A History of Christianity | Kenneth Scott Latourette

    • Baker History of the Church (5 volumes) | Woodbridge and Wright

    • Christianity's Dangerous Idea | Alister McGrath

    • Creeds of Christendom (3 volumes) | Philip Schaff

    • Getting to Know the Church Fathers | Brian Litfin

    • Heresies | Harold Brown

    • Surprising Word of God | Jonathan Edwards

    • The History of the Christian Church (8 volumes) | Philip Schaff

    • The Light and the Glory | Peter Marshall

    • The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History | Curtis, Lang and Peterson

    • The Rise of Evangelicalism | Mark Noll

    • Two Kingdoms | Clouse, Pierard and Yamauchi

    • Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity | ed. Tim Dowley

    • I'm Glad You Asked | Ken Boa and Larry Moody

    • Apologetics to the Glory of God | John Frame

    • Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis

    • Unshakable Foundations | Norm Geisler and Peter Boccino

    • Encyclopedia of Apologetics | Norm Geisler

    • Tactics | Greg Koukl

    • Christian Apologetics | Norm Geisler

    • New Evidence That Demands a Verdict | Josh McDowell

    • To Everyone an Answer | Beckwith, Craig and Moreland

    • Reasons for Faith | Scott Oliphint

    • Reasonable Faith |William Lane Craig

    • What if Jesus Had Never Been Born? | D.James Kennedy

    • What if the Bible Had Never Been Written? | D. James Kennedy

    • When Critics Ask | Norm Geisler

    • When Skeptics Ask | Norm Geisler

    • Christian Apologetics | Norm Geisler

    • What's So Great about Christianity | Dinesh D'Souza

    • The Consequence of Ideas | R.C. Sproul

    • Life's Ultimate Questions | Ron Nash

    • Scaling the Secular City | J.P. Moreland

    • Introduction to Philosophy | Norman Geisler and Paul Feinberg

    • Foundations of a Christian Worldview | J.P. Moreland and William L. Craig

    • The Universe Next Door | James Sire

    • Thinking Biblically | John MacArthur

    • Worldviews in Conflict | Ron Nash

    • Revolutions in Worldview | Andrew Hoffecker

    • The Death of Man as Man | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • The Gospel and Personal Evangelism | Mark Dever

    • The Art of Personal Evangelism | Will McRaney Jr

    • Bringing Your Faith to Work | Norm Geisler and Randy Douglas

    • From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya | Ruth Tucker

    • Let the Nations Be Glad | John Piper

    • Operation World | Patrick Johnstone

    • Sacred Marriage | Gary Thomas

    • Shepherding a Child's Heart | Ted Tripp

    • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood | Wayne Grudem

    • What the Bible Says About Parenting | John MacArthur

    • God, Marriage and Family | Andreas Kostenberger

    • Love and Respect | Emerson Eggerichs

    • When Sinners say "I Do" | Dave Harvey

    • The Baptist Way | Stan Norman

    • Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches | ed. Duessing, White, Yarnell

    • The Baptist Reformation | Jerry Sutton

    • Theologians of the Baptist Tradition | ed. Dockery and George

    • Nine Marks of a Healthy Church | Mark Dever

    • Spiritual Disciplines within the Church | Donald Whitney

    • The Master's Plan for the Church | John MacArthur

    • Biblical Eldership | Alexander Strauch

    • Undermining the Gospel | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • The Equipping Church | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • Don't Waste Your Life | John Piper

    • Humility | C.J. Mahaney

    • Knowing God | J.I. Packer

    • Pursuit of God | A.W. Tozier

    • Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health | Don Whitney

    • Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan Prayers

    • Spiritual Disciplines of the Christian Life | Don Whitney

    • A Hunger for God | John Piper

    • A Passion for Prayer | Tom Elliff

    • Desiring God | John Piper

    • Pursuit of Holiness|  Jerry Bridges

    • Respectable Sins | Jerry Bridges

    • Simplify Your Spiritual Life | Don Whitney

    • Spiritual Depression | Martin Lloyd-Jones

    • The Call | Os Guinness

    • The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer | E.M. Bounds

    • The Godly Man's Picture | Thomas Watson

    • The Keys to Spiritual Growth | John MacArthur

    • The Purity Principle | Randy Alcorn

    • The Pursuit of God | A.W. Tozer

    • When God Doesn't Make Sense | James Dobson

    • Introduction to Old Testament Theology | John Sailhamer

    • The Message of the Old Testament | Mark Dever

    • Introduction to New Testament Theology | Henry Theissen

    • Making Sense of the New Testament | Craig Blomberg

    • New Testament Theology | Tom Schreiner

    • Paul and His Letters | John Polhill

    • Dictionary of the Bible | Walter Elwell

    • A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible | Robert Stein

    • Living by the Book | Howard Hendricks

    • Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics | Graeme Goldsworthy

    • Rightly Divided, Readings in Hermeneutics | ed. Roy Zuck

    • Hermeneutics, Authority and Canon | D.A. Carson and John Woodbridge

    • Basic Theology | Charles Ryrie

    • Institutes of the Christian Religion | John Calvin

    • Lectures in Systematic Theology | Henry Thiessen

    • Systematic Theology (4 volume set) | Norm Geisler

    • Christian Theology | Millard Erickson

    • Chafer Systematic Theology (8 volume set) | Lewis Sperry Chafer

    • Christian Theology | Adam Harwood

    • Christianity and Liberalism | J. Gresham Machen

    • Doctrine of the Bible | David Dockery

    • General Introduction to the Bible | Norm Geisler

    • God, Revelation and Authority (6 volume set) | Carl Henry

    • Inerrancy | Norm Geisler

    • Knowing Scripture | R.C. Sproul

    • The Inspiration of Authority of the Bible | B.B. Warfield

    • Why I Believe the Bible | John MacArthur

    • The Knowledge of the Holy | A.W. Tozer

    • No One Like Him | John Feinberg

    • Our Awesome God | John MacArthur

    • The Doctrine of God | John Frame

    • The Existence and Attributes of God | Stephen Charnock

    • The Forgotten Trinity | James White

    • Understanding the Trinity | Alister McGrath

    • Overcoming Sin and Temptation | John Owen

    • The Bondage of the Will | Martin Luther

    • The Christian View of Man | J. Gresham Machen

    • The Freedom and Power of Forgiveness | John MacArthur

    • On the Incarnation | Athanasius

    • The Battle for the Resurrection | Norman Geisler

    • The Cross of Christ | John Stott

    • The Glory of Christ | John Owen

    • The Resurrection of Jesus Christ | N.T. Wright

    • The Virgin Birth of Christ | J. Gresham Machen

    • How Can I Be Sure I'm a Christian? | Don Whitney

    • Justification and the New Perspective on Paul | Guy Walters

    • Our Sufficiency in Christ | John MacArthur

    • The Cross-Centered Life | C.J. Mahaney

    • The Gospel According to Jesus | John MacArthur

    • The Great Exchange | Jerry Bridges

    • Reflections of a Disenchanted Calvinist | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • The Atonement | David L. Allen

    • The Extent of the Atonement | David Allen

    • Calvinism | David Allen & Steve Lemke

    • Does God Love All or Some | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • The Spiritual Condition of Infants | Adam Harwood

    • Baptism, Filling, and Gifts of the Holy Spirit | W.A. Criswell

    • God's Indwelling Presence | James Hamilton

    • Showing the Spirit | D.A. Carson

    • Spirit Life | Jerry Vines

    • The Holy Spirit | Robert Gromacki

    • Ashamed of the Gospel | John MacArthur

    • Believers Baptism | Tom Schreiner and Shawn Wright

    • Elders and Congregational Life | Phil Newton

    • Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire | Jim Cymbala

    • Membership Matters | Chuck Lawless

    • Polity | Mark Dever

    • Prophetic Untimliness | Os Guinness

    • Surprising Insights from the Unchurched | Thom Rainer

    • The Deliberate Church | Mark Dever

    • Dining with the Devil | Os Guinness

    • Rediscovering Pastoral Ministry | John MacArthur

    • The Equipping Church | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • The Coming Prince | Sir Robert Anderson

    • The Second Coming | John MacArthur

    • Things to Come | Dwight Pentecost

    • Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond | ed. Gundry and Bock

    • Baptist Faith and Message 2000 | Blount and Wooddell

    • Baptists and the Bible | Bush and Nettles

    • The Anabaptist Story | William Estep

    • The Baptists (3 volumes) | Tom Nettles

    • Why I'm a Baptist | Nettles and Moore

    • Biblical Preaching | Haddon Robinson

    • Brothers We Are Not Professionals | John Piper

    • Guidebook for Pastors | W.A. Criswell

    • Expository Preaching | John MacArthur

    • Lectures to My Students | Charles Spurgeon

    • Pastoral Ministry | John MacArthur

    • Preaching and Preachers | Martin Lloyd-Jones

    • The Reformed Pastor | Richard Baxter

    • A Parliamentary Guide for Church Leaders | C. Barry McCarty

    • Leading and Managing Your Church | George and Logan

    • Introduction to Biblical Counseling | John MacArthur

    • Christian Worker's Handbook | Billy Graham

    • Boundaries | Cloud and Townsend

    • Competent to Counsel | Jay Adams

    • Counseling: How to Counsel Biblically | John MacArthur

    • Fearing Death | Billy Graham

    • Heaven | Criswell and Patterson

    • Psychology as Religion | Paul Vitz

    • Theology of Christian Counseling | Jay Adams

    • The Psychological Anthropology of Wayne Edward Oates | Sam Stevens

    • The Sufficiency of the Bible in Counseling | Paige Patterson

    • An Enquiry | William Carey

    • Exploring Evangelism | Mendell Taylor

    • Salvation to the Ends of the Earth | Andreas Kostenberger

    • The Soul Winner | Charles Spurgeon

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    • The Ultimate Priority | John MacArthur

    • Worship by the Book | D.A. Carson

    • Worship Matters | Bob Kauflin

    • A Christian Manifesto | Francis Schaeffer

    • Above All Earthly Powers | David Wells

    • All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes | Kenneth Myers

    • Amusing Ourselves to Death | Neil Postman

    • Black and Right | Faryna, Stetson and Conti

    • Cosmic Justice | Thomas Sowell

    • Christ and Culture Revisited | D.A. Carson

    • Fit Bodies Fat Minds | Os Guinness

    • God in the Wasteland | David Wells

    • Losing our Virtue | David Wells

    • No Place for Truth | David Wells

    • Slouching Towards Gomorrah | Robert Bork

    • The Courage to be Protestant | David Wells

    • The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind | Mark Noll

    • Total Truth | Nancy Pearcey

    • How Now Shall We Live | Colson and Pearcey

    • The Death of Man as Man | Ronnie W. Rogers

    • Culture Shift | R.Albert Mohler Jr.

    • Art and the Bible | Francis Schaeffer

    • Modern Art and the Death of a Culture | H.R. Rookmaaker

    • State of the Arts | Gene Veith

    • Beyond Good Intentions | Doug Bandow

    • Citizen Christians | Land and Moore

    • Coercing Virtue | Robert Bork

    • Democracy by Decree | Sandler and Schoenbrod

    • Evangelicals in the Public Square | J. Budziszewski

    • God and Government | Chuck Colson

    • Has Democracy Had Its Day? | Carl Henry

    • Scalia Dissents | Kevin Ring

    • The Clash of Civilizations | Samuel Huntington

    • The Culture of Disbelief | Stephen Carter

    • The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism | Carl Henry

    • Why Religion Still Matters | Huston Smith

    • Indivisible | Robison and Richards

    • How to Read a Book | Mortimer Adler

    • How to Read Slowly | James Sire

    • Reading Between the Lines | Gene Veith

    • The Closing of the American Mind | Allan Bloom

    • Left Back | Diane Ravitch

    • Psychology as Religion | Paul Vitz

    • Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning | Doug Wilson

    • The Case for Classical Christian Education | DougWilson

    • The Language Police | Diane Ravitch

    • Tyranny Through Public Education | William Cox

    • Basic Economics | Thomas Sowell

    • Money, Possessions and Eternity | Randy Alcorn

    • The Complete Financial Guide for Young Couples | Larry Burkett

    • The Total Money Makeover | Dave Ramsey

    • The Treasure Principle | Randy Alcorn

    • Money, Greed and God | Jay Richards

    • Christian Ethics | Norm Geisler

    • Evangelical Ethics | John Jefferson Davis

    • How to be a Christian in a Brave New World | Cameron and Tada

    • The Doctrine of the Christian Life | John Frame

    • Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life | Francis Beckwith

    • Politically Correct Death | Francis Beckwith

    • Po-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments | RandyAlcorn

    • The Hand of God | Bernard Nathanson

    • Why Pro-Life? | Randy Alcorn

    • The Homosexual Agenda | Sears and Osten

    • The Truth About Same Sex Marriage | Erwin Lutzer

    • The Useful Lie | William L. Playfair

    • To Drink or Not to Drink? | Norman Geisler

    • Shaken Not Stirred | Dan Fisher

    • The Biblical Approach to Alcohol | Reynolds and Butler

    • The Bible and Its Wines | Charles Wesley Ewing

    • Darwin on Trial | Phillip Johnson

    • Dawkins' GOD | Alister McGrath

    • Defeating Darwinism | Phillip Johnson

    • In Six Days | John Ashton

    • Law, Darwinism and Public Education | Francis Beckwith

    • Limitations of Scientific Truth | Nigel Brush

    • Redeeming Science | Vern Poythress

    • Refuting Compromise | Jonathan Sarfati

    • The Battle for the Beginning | John MacArthur

    • The Dawkins Delusion | Alister McGrath

    • The Design Revolution | William Dembski

    • The Devil's Delusion | David Berlinski

    • The Reenchantment of Nature | Alister McGrath

    • The Soul of Science | Nancy Pearcey

    • The Spiritual Brain | Beauregard and O'Leary

    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn

    • Environmental Stewardship | Acton Institute

    • Kingdom of the Cults | Walter Martin

    • Mormonism Unmasked | Phil Roberts

    • Roman Catholics and Evangelicals | Norm Geisler

    • The Secret Teachings of the Masonic Lodge | Ankerberg and Weldon

    • Unmasking the New Age | Doug Groothuis

    • What You Need to Know About Islam and Muslims |  George W. Braswell

    • Answering Islam | Norman Geisler

    • Beyond the Bounds | John Piper

    • God's Lesser Glory | Bruce Ware

    • No Other God | John Frame

    • The Gagging of God | D.A. Carson

    • Relativism | Beckwith and Koukl

    • Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church | D.A. Carson

    • Postmodern Times | Gene Veith

    • The Challenge of Postmodernism | David Dockery

    • Truth and the New Kind of Christian | R. ScottSmith

    • Why We're Not Emergent | DeYoung and Kluck

    • Charismatic Chaos | John MacArthur

    • Christianity in Crisis | Hank Hanegraaff

    • The Agony of Deceit | ed. Michael Horton

    • Tongues in Biblical Perspective | Charles Smith

    • Understanding Spiritual Gifts | Robert Thomas

    • Spiritual Leadership | J. Oswald Sanders

    • The Book on Leadership | John MacArthur

    • Basic Christianity | John Stott

    • Master Plan of Evangelism | Robert Coleman

    • Spiritual Discipleship | J. Oswald Sanders

    • The Cost of Discipleship | Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    • The Training of the Twelve | A.B. Bruce

    • Disciplines of a Godly Man | R. KentHughes

    • Every Man's Battle | Steven Arterburn

    • Tender Warrior | Stu Webber

    • Evangelical Feminism | Wayne Grudem

    • Fearlessly Feminine | Jani Ortlund

    • Feminine Appeal | Carolyn Mahaney

    • Passion and Purity | Elisabeth Elliot

    • Bringing Up Boys | James Dobson

    • Raising a Modern-Day Knight | Robert Lewis

    • Sacred Parenting | Gary Thomas

    • Sex, Romance and the Glory of God | C.J. Mahaney

    • The Act of Marriage | Tim LaHaye

    • The Marriage Builder| Larry Crabb

    • When Sinners Say 'I Do' | Dave Harvey

    • God on Sex: The Creator's Ideas About Love, Intimacy and Marriage | Daniel Akin

    • Abolition of Man | C.S. Lewis

    • City of God | Augustine

    • Confessions | Augustine

    • Great Books of the Christian Tradition | Terry Glaspey

    • Orthodoxy | G.K. Chesterton

    • Pensees | Blaise Pascal

    • Pilgrims Progress | John Bunyan

    • Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis

    • The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Kostoevsky

    • The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis

    • Till We Have Faces | C.S. Lewis

    • More Than Conquerors | ed. John Woodbridge

    • God at Work | Gene Veith

    • Family Vocation | Gene Veith

    • Business for the Glory of God | Wayne Grudem

    • Work Matters | Tom Nelson

    • Integrity at Work | Geisler and Douglass

    • Augustine

    • Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    • David Brainerd

    • John Bunyan

    • John Calvin

    • William Carey

    • Amy Carmichael

    • Chuck Colson

    • Jonathan Edwards

    • Jim Elliot

    • Billy Graham

    • John "Praying Hyde"

    • Carl Henry

    • Adoniram Judson

    • John Knox

    • C.S. Lewis

    • David Livingston

    • Martin Luther

    • J. Gresham Machen

    • D.L. Moody

    • George Mueller

    • John Newton

    • John Paton

    • Francis Schaeffer

    • Charles Spurgeon

    • C.T. Studd

    • The Cambridge Seven

    • Hudson Taylor

    • William Tyndale

    • John Wesley

    • George Whitefield

    • William Wilberforce

    • John Wycliffe

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