In The Mortification of the Flesh, Puritan pastor Christopher Love shows believers who are raised to new life in Christ how to remove the residue of sin which once reigned over us. With keen insight, Love teaches us to discern the genuine marks of true mortification from self-serving and counterfeit motives that lie camouflaged as grace. He then provides a wide array of practical helps for cooperating with the Holy Spirit's work of subduing the vitality and vigor of our worldly co...

Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the beginnings of municipal recreational swimming, the book fully explores the links between swimming and other aspects of English life society including class, education, gender, municipal governance, sexuality and the Victorian invention of th...

"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly reader of helpful Puritan works. Each article is carefully edited and formatted to maximize readability. The autumn 2012 edition of "The Digital Puritan" contains the following articles:The Preciousness of Time - Jonathan Edwards. This sermon, from 1734, reveals how being mindful of the brevity of this life makes us live life to the fullest (i.e. with eternity in view).A Description of True B...

Christopher Love (1618-1651) was a fiery and practical Puritan preacher. His works consist of some of the best written and preached biblical expositions in print. Christopher Love harvests sweet biblical honey from the word of God concerning the ascension of Jesus Christ, and the coming of Christ again to judgment. Though Love carefully refutes theological ideas such as the 1000 year earthly millennial reign of Christ, and the idea of soul sleep, he is more focused on demonstrating the swe...

Christopher Love (1618-1651) was a fiery and practical Puritan preacher. His works consist of some of the best written and preached biblical expositions in print. Love's text is, “When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him in glory,” (Col. 3:4). Why should the Christian have a hope of heaven? What may be expected there? What is Christ’s role there right now and how will the Christian interact with Him before the throne of God? What does it mean that Christ...

Christopher Love (1618-1651) was a fiery and practical Puritan preacher. How does the Christian overcome sinful temptations, and fight successfully against the kingdom of darkness lead by the Devil himself? In this work on Ephesians 6:13-17, Christopher Love explains how the armor of God gives the reader a stratagem to wage war against the Devil and his darkness. Love shows the nature, power, and cunning deceit of Satan, the great enemy of our salvation, and subsequently demonstrates the m...

Twenty years ago, Love Christophers was called to the prophetic ministry and instructed by the Lord to become familiar with the lives and functions of the prophets in the Bible. Now after being called once again to teach others about the five people in the Bible who were named for specific missions and trained by the Lord, Christophers brings to light the story of Elijah, one of the five, and compares his trials with her own. Christophers relies on her personal spiritual experiences to sha...

A Woman with a Plan, A Man in TroubleRuth: The Daughter-in-Law of Noble CharacterShe was widowed, impoverished, and living in a foreign land.Yet her story became one of the greatest testimonies of loyalty, faith, and divine destiny ever told.In A Woman with a Plan, A Man in Trouble, the unforgettable journey of Ruth—the Moabite woman who chose love over comfort and faith over fear—comes alive in a pow...

A Woman with a Plan, A Man in TroubleThe Curious Teenager Who Was AbductedShe was young, curious, and full of questions about the world around her. But one decision would change everything.Dinah's name was whispered in shame, her story buried beneath the weight of silence. Yet out of tragedy rose a voice that would not be forgotten. A Woman with a Plan, A Man in Trouble reimagines the ancient story of Jacob's daughter—her i...

A Woman with a Plan, A Man in Trouble: Rachel, the Second Wife and the Voice that Still WeepsIn A Woman with a Plan, A Man in Trouble, the timeless story of Rachel and Leah is brought to life with fresh emotion and spiritual depth. This is Rachel's own account—her heartfelt retelling of life inside a polygamous marriage, where love and rivalry intertwine, and faith is tested in the quiet spaces of longing and hope....

A Woman with a Plan, A Man in TroublePotiphar's Wife: The Danger of Forbidden DesireShe had everything—status, wealth, beauty, and power.But desire, when left unchecked, can poison even the most privileged heart.In this gripping, emotionally charged retelling, A Woman with a Plan, A Man in Trouble explores the life of Potiphar's wife, a woman whose secret longing spiraled into obsession—and whose reck...

A Woman with a Plan, A Man in TroubleHagar: A Maid and a Surrogate MotherUsed. Discarded. Banished.Beyond the celebrated stories of patriarchs and promised nations lies the searing truth of Hagar—the Egyptian handmaiden whose life was anything but secondary. Forced into a role she did not choose, used as a vessel for another's longing, and twice cast into the merciless desert, Hagar's existence seem...