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In The Mortification of Sin, Puritan pastor-theologian John Owen provides vital teaching in a neglected aspect of Christianity – killing sin. In this book, John Owen effectively dismisses various excuses for not engaging in self-scrutiny and yet avoids the current trend of self-absorption. In so doing, he provides principles to help believers live lives of holiness before God. Get it here.

In The Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of Sin, Kris Lundgaard draws on two works by the aforementioned Puritan in writing this modern-English distillation of Owen’s Indwelling Sin and The Mortification of Sin – two of his most renowned works. Lundgaard offers insight, encouragement, and hope for overcoming the enemy within. This book is available in the RBC bookstore or online.

Cornelius Plantinga Jr.’s Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin is a timely book that revives in modern terms the ancient awareness of sin that has slipped in recent decades. Plantinga uses clear language and draws upon myriad books, films and other cultural resources to drive home our need to simultanously hate sin and love the grace of Christ. Available at the RBC bookstore or here.

In Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate, Jerry Bridges’ asserts that we have become so preoccupied with the “major” sins of our society, Christians have ceased to heed the dangers of more subtle sins in our lives. We the Church must not act as though sin were only something out “in the world” and so tolerate jealousy, anger, pride and ungodliness within our own hearts. Bridges writes as one in the trenches and points his readers again and again to the profound mercy of the grace of Jesus. Available in the RBC bookstore or get it here.

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