The Mortification of Sin, written by John Owen and published in 1656, is considered by many as one of the most important monumental works in Christian history.

“I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.” Romans 7:21For nearly 500 years Indwelling Sin in Believers has aided countless saints in recognizing the reality of the ongoing struggle with sin and resting in the all-powerful grace of Jesus Christ.In this Puritan Reformed classic, John Owen uncovers the true and deep nature of sin in the life of a believer. A methodical and clear teacher, Owen systematically reveals how sin works to deceiv...

John Owen (1616 24 August 1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford. Owen was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he studied classics and theology and was ordained. Because of the "high-church" innovations introduced by Archbishop William Laud, Owen left the university to be a chaplain to the family of a noble lord. His first parish was at Fordham in Essex, to which he went while the nation was involved in civi...

John Owen tackles one of the greatest enemies the believer will face by examining every facets of sin through the lens of the Scriptures.

The Glory of Christ is John Owen's mature meditation on the believer's contemplation of Christ as the heart of faith and the anticipation of heaven. Taking its impulse especially from John 17:24, Owen unfolds the glory of Christ's person, offices, incarnation, and mediatorial work with characteristic Puritan intensity. The prose is dense, scriptural, and devotional, joining Reformed scholastic precision to warm spiritual exhortation within the seventeenth-century tradition of practical div...

What good is a church community if it lacks loving fellowship?In Rules for Walking in Fellowship , John Owen supplies struggling congregations with biblical guidelines for making church life in the present a foretaste of heavenly fellowship to come. He discusses both the responsibilities congregations have toward pastors as well as the duties members have toward one another. Together, Owen presents twenty-four rules for fostering gospel fellowship, supporting them with nu...

"This renewing of us by the Holy Ghost, as it is called, is one great way of mortification: he causes us to grow, thrive, flourish and abound in those graces which are contrary, opposite, and destructive to all the fruits of the flesh, and to the quiet or thriving of indwelling sin."The Mortification of Sin is an incisive treatise on a topic much neglected in the church. Written in the 17th century by the English Puritan, John Owen, this work has been an unfailing...

Edited for Modern Readers, This Essay by John Owen Presents a Compelling, Biblical Defense of Definite AtonementRegarded as one of the greatest theologians in history, 17th-century pastor John Owen wrote extensively on holiness, Scripture, the Trinity, missions, and ecclesiology. His classic works—which have inspired many Christian thinkers including Charles Spurgeon, J. I. Packer, and John Piper—remain influential, but until now haven't been offered in an easy-to-...

Green Port Beach, Florida – Hurricane warning in effectTwo people on a beach in a storm had no plans for their world to be changed, only to find a lost dog - but what the animal unearths from a dune turns loose a siren call for their lives. The strange fossil disappearance is followed by Amber's own, and a high-level conspiracy to erase all evidence including Joel, a Beaches News writer, who learns too late of the connection between an esteemed genetic scientist and Amber's abducti...

Indwelling Sin in Believers, John Owen described how the deceit of sin draws our mind from attending to the duties by which our soul is preserved, particularly prayer and meditation. Sin maintains an enmity against all duties of obedience, or rather with God in them.

An explosive new look at the pressures on today's teachers and the pitfalls of school reform—a passionate appeal to save public schools, before it's too late."A compelling and thoughtful personal narrative about corporate school reform's war on teachers." —Dr. Michael Klonsky, PhD, DePaul UniversityWhen John Owens left a lucrative job to teach English at a public school in New York City's South Bronx, he thought he could do some good. Faced...

John Owen’s Puritan classic The Mortification of Sin is now accessible to today’s readers in this translation and adaption of his original 1656 English text into our modern English. Owen expertly explains how to put to death sin through faith in Jesus Christ. He tells us why it is important for the Christian to be killing sin in his life, what it means to kill sin, and why only a Christian can do it. He shows why sin can only be put to death by the power of the Holy Spirit exclusively avai...