Reviews on Growth in Grace

Create in Me a Clean Heart by Matthew Boswell

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Repentance is one of those Christian words we use often enough to forget how difficult it is. We know sin must be confessed, but we can still be unsure what genuine repentance looks like—or whether we are approaching God with honest contrition or merely managing our guilt. In Create in Me a Clean Heart: Experiencing God’s Abundant Mercy in Psalm 51, Matthew Boswell turns to David’s great prayer of repentance to answer those questions. His central claim is that Psalm 51 is not merely the record of one king’s response to one terrible sin. It gives believers a pattern for returning to God, and the pattern begins not with the strength of our sorrow but with the abundance of God’s mercy.

Classical Theology for the Modern Mind by Carl Trueman

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:31:00 +0000

Ask a Reformed pastor whether he affirms the Westminster Confession’s teaching about God and he will probably say yes without hesitation. Ask him what it means for God to be “without body, parts, or passions,” or why the confession says the Son is “eternally begotten” rather than made, and the confidence may fade. Carl Trueman’s Classical Theology for the Modern Mind begins with that gap. His argument is not that confessional Protestants need to import something foreign called classical theism. It is that they already claim to believe these doctrines in the confessions they sign—Trinity, divine simplicity, immutability, impassibility—but many have lost sight of what those commitments actually mean.

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:47:00 +0000

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing — Jonathan Gibson (Crossway)

“Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love.” Robert Robinson wrote those words in 1758, and they have left congregations struck by how uncomfortably accurate it describes our experience. Jonathan Gibson takes that line as his starting point in Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, and in doing so gives this devotional liturgy something rarer than good content: a theological rationale.

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 01:27:00 +0000

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West — Andrew Wilson

In the summer of 1776, laid up with gout, Benjamin Franklin made a small edit to a draft he’d been handed. Thomas Jefferson had written that certain truths about human equality were “sacred and undeniable.” Franklin crossed out the last two words and wrote “self-evident.” It’s a throwaway moment in most retellings of the founding, the kind of copyediting detail that gets a footnote if it gets anything. Andrew Wilson builds an entire argument out of it, and by the time you reach the end of Remaking the World, you understand why. The edit is a perfect miniature of what Wilson thinks happened to the whole Western world in and around that single year: a set of convictions that were originally theological got rebranded as rational, and two and a half centuries later we’ve largely forgotten there was ever a rebranding at all.

Reviews on Growth in Grace

*Create in Me a Clean Heart* by Matthew Boswell

*Classical Theology for the Modern Mind* by Carl Trueman

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

Create in Me a Clean Heart by Matthew Boswell

Classical Theology for the Modern Mind by Carl Trueman