Bøger af Tom Barnes

Wherever two or more people come together, one thing is for certain: Conflict will arise. Like a snake piercing its fangs into the skin, so differences can spread poison through marriages, churches, businesses, clubs, and friendships with deadly results. How can we prevent conflict from becoming all-out division? The third and fourth chapters of the New Testament book, James, provides an antidote. In this short book (70 pages), with brief chapters and questions provided that make it ideal for discussing with others, Tom Barnes helps explain and apply the eight principles James sets forth for how to deal with our differences.

Scripture teaches God is absolutely sovereign. This means that nothing happens that has not first been ordained by God. After all, God "works all things according to the counsel of his will" (Eph. 1:11). At the same time, Scripture teaches humans make real and significant choices. This book explores how both of these can be true and how each is important. Following the traditional Calvinist approach to these topics, as found in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the London Baptist Confession of 1689, this work helps the non-professional, the average Christian, get a handle on this powerful and practical doctrine.