Archives for September 2022

A few days ago Reformation Heritage Books released, in my opinion, our most beautifully laid out book we have ever done: Simonetta Carr’s new “Church History,” which is packed with photographs and illustrations together with well-written, succinct summaries of hundreds of events in church history covering the last two thousand years. Kudos are in order to Simonetta, our typesetting team, and the printer. I had the privilege of editing this volume and can affirm that it is a storehouse of valuable information that can be read by children and young people from ten years of age and up as well as by adults. If you ever wanted a gripping, easy-to-read, basic book on church history, this is exactly what you are looking for—both for the children you may be homeschooling and for yourself as an adult. Highly recommended on the back cover by Rosaria Butterfield as well as by able historians like Michael Haykin and Carl Trueman!

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Mary and I spent yesterday at the Sing Conference in Nashville, which was attended by 7,700 people (photo 1) in the beautiful Gaylord Opryland Convention Center (photo 2). It was a busy day for me: I was privileged to speak on “The Prayer Life of the Christian Leader” to a large breakout session (photo 3), met with some editors at Crossway (including Justin Taylor) to talk about future writing projects (which includes Paul Smalley and I hoping to write a one volume Reformed Systematic Theology of about 800 pages at a layman’s level which will be a simplified, abridged version of our four volume RST), did a recorded address for Crossway on ten reasons why Christians should study theology and another impromptu podcast on why and how Calvin and the Puritans were evangelistic, spent several hours selling books at the Reformation Heritage Books table, and then Mary and I closed out the evening by spending a few hours visiting with Mark Dever, sharing with each other how the Lord has converted us and getting to know each other better (photo 4).

My wife’s family (the Kamp family) had its first get-together in seven years (photo 1). It was great to see scores of relatives that we had not seen for a long time, ranging in age from two weeks to 97 years (photo 2)!

I am excited to announce that “A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments” by the Puritan John Trapp (Reformation Heritage Books, 5 volumes 3,620 pages) has arrived! This major, beautifully reprinted set (originally published in 10 volumes in the mid-seventeenth century) provides helpful exegesis and excels in using colorful paraphrases and captivating illustrations. Spurgeon said that preachers should use Trapp’s commentary for “spicing” sermons. Nearly all of Trapp’s other writings are also included in this edition of his valuable commentaries, so there is lots of edifying reading here as well. Highly recommended!

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