Douglas Wilson

The church in America refuses to grow up. We are known for women's ordination, emotionally unhealthy worship services, and childish skits replacing the sermon. We are the Corinthians, refusing Paul's offer of meat to drink our milk instead.Back to Basics is a resource for pastors and laymen to mature in the Reformed faith of our fathers, covering topics such as conversion, covenant, church, and the Christian life. If we can return to the basics now, our nation's churches will be known for men with gravitas in the pulpits, for glorious and loud congregational singing, and, by God's grace, for generations of faithful families. If we cannot get the basics right, the church will starve, and God will have to work with the ashes instead.

We have this treasure in jars of clay.The church at Corinth was infested with so-called super-apostles. They were stylish and well-spoken, and they were out to turn the church against the apostle Paul. They cast him as a frail, indecisive fumbler who got beat up everywhere he went.So Paul responded with a full-length account of the glory of Christian weakness.This commentary traces Paul's argument as he shows how Christ empowers us not only to endure persecution, diseases, and disasters, but to relish them.In the end, there are two competing visions of the Christian life. On the one hand there's a wall of marble tombs, magnificent and rotten. On the other there's a pile of clay pots, cracked or cracking, and filled with diamonds.

Sorrow not as those who have no hope.We tend to think eschatology is important but impractical. What does the millennium have to do with Monday morning?Quite a bit, Paul says.The Thessalonians were suffering intensely. They were being killed by their own next-door neighbors. Paul writes to comfort them-and he does it with some of the most debated end times passages in all of Scripture.In this commentary, Douglas Wilson shows how tangled issues like the Man of Sin and the Day of the Lord aren't simply fodder for speculation. They relate directly to how we should handle our daily trials. Practice church discipline. Show up to work on time. Suffer with hope.This is because in the mines of difficulty, we find the diamonds of promise.

For a moment, the clouds had lifted. I caught a glimpse of that other realm. Which lies beyond our vast horizon, yet to this Earth is bound.FROM THE CRITICS"This collection of poetry is easy to understand and easy to relate to. As with Wilson's other four books, this book will cause you to feel, reflect, and think."-Robert J. Chancelor"Reading a book of Douglas Wilson's poems feels like you have discovered someone's diary. Sometimes humorous, but always raw, honest, painfully truthful, and full of the author's struggle with daily experience. He explores relationships, love, lust, temptation, and eternal spiritual connections with nature in the Supreme Being.Putting pen to paper seems to be his vehicle for reaching a better understanding of the past, and how it unalterably influences the present and future. He shares with us all of us the highs and lows of being truly human."-Terry Bloomquist

Ephesians is a vault of Pauline doctrine, with shelf after shelf of priceless jewels and gems.Galatians is a firefight in the hallway outside.This commentary presents Galatians and Ephesians together as Paul exults in the most precious truths of the Gospel-and shows us how to fight for them.Only a few years after Christ's resurrection, false brothers were out to attempt the heist of the ages, replacing freedom in Christ with bondage to the law. In these two great epistles, Paul confronts Judaizers ancient and modern with the fundamental Christian confession: "By grace you have been saved."

Look out the window - what's that we see?Dad's home He's returned from his quest He'll tell us his tales and take us out on a spree'Cuz FUN DAD is simply the best Douglas Wilson, author of Andrew and the Firedrake and the Maritime Series for older kids, teams up with granddaughter Lucia Wilson, creator of the Mostly Me Instagram comic, for their first picture book, a celebration of everyone's favorite family hero - Dad

Look out the window - what's that we see?Dad's home He's returned from his quest He'll tell us his tales and take us out on a spree'Cuz FUN DAD is simply the best Douglas Wilson, author of Andrew and the Firedrake and the Maritime Series for older kids, teams up with granddaughter Lucia Wilson, creator of the Mostly Me Instagram comic, for their first picture book, a celebration of everyone's favorite family hero - Dad

At the beginning of history, God established a foundational enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. this is an antithesis that cuts across all areas of human life, including education. Christian parents are left with only two options for the training of their children: faithful education or unbelieving education. though the right choice seems obvious, many Christian parents do not see the antithesis.In this little book, Douglas Wilson presents the case for providing a faithful, Christian education for all Christian kids, and explains why we even have to make that case to begin with.The "Answers in an Hour" series is an ongoing collection of short and easily digestible books written with the inquirer in mind. These little books provide brief studies of various topics of interest to Christians who seek instruction that is grounded in biblical theology.

This small book has two main themes. The first is the argument that Scripture requires ministers in the church to be men-that is, they must be male. The second theme addresses the reason why this has become an issue at all (when the texts are so plain) and will argue that ministers in the Christian church must be more than male-that is, they must be vertebrates.The ministry calls for men in both senses of that word.The "Answers in an Hour" series is an ongoing collection of short and easily digestible books written with the inquirer in mind. These little books provide brief studies of various topics of interest to Christians who seek instruction that is grounded in biblical theology.

"Where are all the guys? Where did they all go? If you and your friends are anything like the other young Christian women I know, your chief complaint has to do with the paucity of guys. And then, when you are looking at the handful of guys who do hang around in your church community, you think to yourself, as the saying goes, 'The odds may be good, but the goods are odd.' Heterosexual relationships are always cross-cultural, bilingual situations. You come from different worlds. He's a guy. They do things differently over there." from the bookDouglas Wilson offers the simple, direct advice he's been giving young women for decades on how to notice and attract the right kind of man. You shouldn't feel ashamed about wanting a guy who is strong and capable of leading you. In fact, you should want someone who has the backbone to lovingly take charge even when you don't want to be led. Beyond that, it's best not to overcomplicate things. Guard your heart, keep your imagination under control ("I always thought I would marry someone who..."), and trust that God will take care of everything else.

It is in the music of the heavens that we all will find our end.This noble collection of verse on subjects great and small provides a window into how a Christian writer views the world: there is beauty, there is sorrow, but underneath it all beats the music of the heavens -- and it is in the music of the heavens that we all will find our end.

America and her ships may change, but the Monroe boys are always drawn to the sea. When John Monroe saves a mother and daughter from the clutches of a rogue English soldier, he is thrust into a world of intrigue and espionage. It's the height of the French and Indian war. In possession of a letter that exposes British troop movements, John must race to deceive the French before the rogue soldier can catch up to him and provide the actual intelligence the French need.

America and her ships may change, but the Monroe boys are always drawn to the sea. Young Thomas Monroe was bred for the sea. At his first chance he sets off on a merchant's ship, but Thomas gets more of an adventure than he'd expected when his ship is captured by the pirates whose treasure map he stole He somehow must keep himself and his captain alive, and beat the pirates to their treasure. Meanwhile, hundreds of years in the future, Jim Monroe-Thomas' descendant-is also in desperate need of that treasure, or he and his mother will lose the family land. Embark on this thrilling tale of piracy and derring-do, Douglas Wilson's first foray into children's fiction.