Sin, regeneration, justification by Christ's righteousness, the cross, and the love of God, assurance of salvation - these are the truths that once thrilled churches and changed nations. Yet, where evangelicalism continues to affirm these truths, without such results, it is often assumed that she must have needs that cannot be met without something new.

A timely piece of writing, that argues passionately and persuasively for a serious reconsideration of the great scriptural principles that undergirded the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth-century. Far from being outdated and irrelevant to the church today, Terry Johnson shows that these very principles are the essence of biblical Christianity.

In the first volume of this new series, one of the 20th century's greatest preachers offers a verse-by-verse exposition of Acts 1-3 and compares current Christianity with that which was lived in the early church. This book will encourage, challenge, and strengthen you in your faith.

Blending his classic, personal approach with his astute analysis of man's condition, he presents a message that persuasively speaks to the convictions of every reader.

In this volume, the third in the present series intended to bring together much of Dr. Lloyd-Jones evangelistic preaching on Acts, the main incidents in Acts 5:17-6:8 are reviewed and their lessons applied to the mind, heart and conscience of the reader.

Why should readers in the twenty-first century concern themselves with preaching from the first century? Are there not many more pressing topics to concern them than a long address given by a Jewish Christian to the leaders of his nation in Jerusalem? Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones was convinced that time spent in the early chapters of Acts, ‘to discover how the church started and what her message was at the beginning’, was well spent. He shows that we cannot understand the gospel, or even our own history, without understanding the events narrated in Acts 7. There would be no gospel if ‘the God of glory’ had not ‘appeared to Abraham’.

This anthology of documents, drawn primarily from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, addresses issues regarding the nature and life of the Church. Included are the place of Scripture as the rule for reformation, the nature of New Testament church government, the importance of church unity, and the need for ongoing reformation. Any concerned for the glory of God in the Church should be familiar with this heritage of biblical teaching.