Keith Mathison's top 10 must read's for the New Calvinist.HT: Challies1. John Newton’s letter “On Controversy”Although it’s not a book, I would encourage every new Calvinist to read and re-read this letter. Newly minted Calvinists have a tendency to engage in arguments and sometimes in the beginning, they do more harm than good. Newton’s letter is…

How can you know if you are making progress in your sanctification and how can you know how much progress you are making? Is sanctification something that can be measured?Paul believed that sanctification has degrees. You can grow. He prays that “your love may abound more and more” (Phil. 1:9). He says the Thessalonians are pleasing…

G. K. Chesterton, in his defense of humility: Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are—of immeasurable stature. That the trees…

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From the perspective of too many parents, schoolteachers are responsible to grow their children's minds, coaches are employed to train their bodies, and specialized ministers at church ought to develop their souls. Timothy Paul Jones, Perspectives on Family Ministry

Here is an invaluable list of books that a particular classical school requires of their 1st through 8th graders.  I am fully convinced by the classical method of education, and hope to provide an equivalent education to my children. HT: Justin Taylor