Christina Fox’s new book, ‘Closer Than a Sister’, is all about friendships between Christian women – what Christian friendship should look like, why it’s important to build community, and how we go about doing that. We thought it would be good to get to know a bit about Christina, and what prompted her to write this book. So we asked her a few questions.
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Start this new year as you intend to go on, and spend a bit of time every day learning about God, and about the wonderful things he has done.
Here are 10 book suggestions that give you a daily glimpse of God’s character, and his work in the world.
Along with our three girls we visited an Orlando home in the early nineties where a new Church plant was forming. We were warmly welcomed and received in the home but mostly encouraged by the clarity of R.C.’s message. The need for reverence in worship was proclaimed and demonstrated.
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You are out in the countryside on a beautiful day, admiring the view, enthralled by the trees and the songs of the birds. What is your response? How does a dramatic sunset affect you? When you see a field of wheat, ripe and ready for harvesting, do you congratulate the farmer? Or do you think of our Creator God, who made the heavens and the earth? (Psalm 124.8.)
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One of the Protestant Reformation’s five solas is solus Christus, or Christ alone. But what, exactly, does this sola mean and why is it still important to Christians five hundred years later? The answer to this question lies in the Reformation’s reawakening to the authority of Scripture, especially the Pauline epistles.
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A wonderful thing it is, this being justified, or made just. If we had never broken the laws of God we should not have needed it, for we should have been just in ourselves. He who has all his life done the things which he ought to have done, and has never done anything which he ought not to have done, is justified by the law. But you, dear reader, are not of that sort, I am quite sure. You have too much honesty to pretend to be without sin, and therefore you need to be justified.
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One reason many believers lack assurance of faith is that they lack clarity on the doctrine of justification by faith alone, often confusing it with sanctification. Justification is clearly spelled out in the Word of God in Romans 4:5: ‘To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness’, and in Galatians 2:16, ‘Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.’
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Post tenebras lux. “After the darkness, light.” Gospel truths had become shrouded in Medieval religion. The 16th century Protestant Reformation wasn’t a sociological phenomenon. It wasn’t a political movement. It was a revival, a spiritual awakening. What sparked the awakening? Martin Luther knew where the credit lay. When asked about his accomplishments, he said, “I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word; otherwise I did nothing…The Word did it all.”
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When Brian Croft first arrived at Auburndale Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, it was the classic dying Southern Baptist church. In the five years that followed, he survived 3 firing attempts, threats of violence, and the betrayal of close friends. But God saw fit to breathe life into his church again.
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How do we get through them? The times that knock the breath out; when even our strongest and bravest must confess with desolate eyes, “I do not know what to pray” (to paraphrase what Paul expresses in Rom. 8:26). How do we get through such times, when silences trump sentences?
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