David Engelsma

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  Marriage : The Mystery Of Christ And The Church

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  Although this book’s controversial contention that marriage is an unbreakable bond for life gets the most attention today (which is a testimony both to the sad state of the churches today and to the necessity of the book), the book is a mainly positive explanation and application of the Bible’s teaching about marriage in all of marriage’s aspects.

  Fundamentally, Marriage The Mystery of Christ and the Church is a Reformed pastor’s instruction and exhortation to married couples, especially young married couples, with the purpose that they glorify God in their marriages and enjoy the bliss of this blessed communion of life.

  The timeliness of the book is evident simply from the rate of divorce, not alone in North America in the early twenty-first century, but also in Reformed churches throughout the world.

  The previous edition of the book had the subtitle The Covenant-Bond in Scripture and History to reflect the second section, a history of the church’s doctrine and practice of marriage from Augustine and the early church through Calvin and the Reformation to the contemporary chaos. This edition drops the subtitle, but the historical section remains.

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  Prosperous Wicked And Plagued Saints

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  One of the most powerful temptations of the believer is to doubt God’s goodness to him in time of trouble–earthly trouble including family distress, sickness, and financial hardship. Lending force to the temptation is God’s apparent goodness to the wicked in their prosperity–earthly prosperity including a peaceful home, health, and economic success. Every Christian struggles with this temptation at some time in his life. Every Christian knows by experience that, especially when his trouble is great, or continues without relief, the temptation threatens his very faith in God and thus his salvation. The words of the psalmist in Psalm 73:2 are his own: My feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. This temptation and this struggle regarding earthly troubles, as well as the overcoming of the temptation and victory in the struggle by every child of God are the profound and grand themes of Psalm 73. Prosperous Wicked and Plagued Saints is a commentary on this precious psalm that applies to stumbling believers and their children, in a practical way, that gospel-truth which alone holds them up and restores them. This is the truth of God’s goodness to his people in their trouble, as it is also the truth of God’s curse of the wicked in their prosperity. In light of the teaching of Psalm 73, the book takes issue with a theory about earthly prosperity and earthly woe that, for all its strange popularity with Reformed and evangelical Christians, only intensifies the believer’s temptation to doubt in the hour of trouble: the theory of common grace.

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