John Owen insisted on the importance of the Christian dealing effectively with their sinful tendencies and attitudes. He believed that God, through his Word and Spirit, had provided the guidelines and the power for this to be achieved. In this book, John Owen effectively...
John Owen was an English nonconformist Church leader who served as the academic administrator at the University of Oxford. Owen was also a prolific writer. Owen's book Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers seeks to show Christians how to overcome their sins to lead a more...
John Owen writes as a pastor concerned that the present spiritual state of professing Christians left them ill-equipped to deal with temptation and sin. In these pages, he boldly unfolds the necessity and nature of killing sin with characteristic precision. With Romans 8:13 as...
In this seminal work, Owen delves into the depths of the human heart, exposing the insidious nature of sin and its relentless assault on the believer's soul. Drawing from biblical truths and his extensive knowledge of Scripture, he fearlessly confronts the deceptions and illusions...
John Owen (1616 - 24 August 1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford. He was briefly a member of parliament for the University, sitting in the First Protectorate Parliament of 1654 to 1655.On 29 April...
John Owen was essentially a pastoral theologian, and in his best work, his pastoral concern and acute doctrinal instinct are inseparable. Of the Mortification of Sin is such a work. In this work-the substance of which is a series of addresses on Romans 8-Owen provides teaching...
MOR*TI*FI*CA*TION - noun - the subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort.Mortification is what John Owen argued is necessary for every Christian in dealing effectively with their sinful tendencies and attitudes...
A series of addresses focusing mainly on Romans 8, this work gives a well-grounded view on the way of sin in the life of a believer. This aspect of Christianity is often neglected and most people in the faith just accept it with blindly duty. The doctrine has wide ramifications...
John Owen was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford. He was chosen to preach to parliament on the day after the execution of King Charles I, and succeeded in fulfilling his task without directly mentioning that...