Douglas Wilson

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.

America and her ships may change, but the Monroe boys are always drawn to the sea. Stephen Monroe is a young, zealous patriot, proud of his brother William, who is a distinguished captain in the Revolutionary War. The one thing Stephen can't understand is how his brother can kill Redcoats but despise the fiery words of other revolutionaries like Thomas Paine. When Stephen meets Lieutenant William Morris, he thinks he has found someone even more patriotic than his brother. Caught between two Williams, Stephen must realize there are two wars going on, and he must choose between his brother's or Lieutenant Morris's.

America and her ships may change, but the Monroe boys are always drawn to the sea. Once captured and enslaved in Tripoli, Thomas Watson has escaped at last and vowed never to return. Susannah Wilcox secretly longs for adventure, and is thrilled when she is sent to Naples to finish her education. Jules Monroe is freeborn, but longs to prove to himself and the wider world that he is a man, out on the sea with his cousin Samuel. Their stories all meet in 1803 aboard the Philadelphia, a 36-gun frigate. Unfortunately, the ship has fallen into the hand of Barbery pirates, and such a powerful weapon will allow them to decimate the United States' fledgling navy.

Families are formed by covenants. But what is a covenant, and what does that mean for your family? Throughout Scripture, God makes covenants with His people. This is not just a contract, but a personal bond in which God takes responsibility for His people, and His people respond to him in faith. This is true of our relationship with God, and it is true in the case of lesser covenants, such as the covenant family. In this short book, Pastor Douglas Wilson shows how the family should live in the light of what the Bible says about the covenant. The husband is the head of the household, and this means that the problems of the family members are not their problems but his problems. The husband cannot just dismiss his wife's problems as something she needs to work through by herself, and the father cannot complain when his kids get into trouble. They are his people. This book covers everything from marriage to childrearing to cultural engagement. The family is not just a collection of individuals: it is a unit joined together by God, and we should live as though that were true, because it is.

In the United States, the family is all but dissolved. Marriage is no longer marriage, and legally, the state could take away your children any time they wanted to. Pastor and Author Jared Longshore argues that the church's neglect of covenantal living has led us to this pass in American society. While invisible, saving faith in Jesus is the only way to eternal life, modern Americans have neglected the grace that God gives by binding families and churches to Him and to one another. This means that families, the church, and nations should take responsibility for their people, and not treat them as so many marbles in a box. God has intimately connected us to one another in these bonds, the central bond being covenant. We must retrieve this doctrine and live faithfully by it if we want to see reform in America.

Christians should know that social justice internet mobs are a far cry from truly Biblical justice that accords with God's law. But we don't. Biblical justice requires multiple witnesses, matching stories, and objective facts considered by an appropriate authority. A Justice Primer is written by two longtime pastors who have worked inside denominations, sessions, and institutions, and who have seen more than their share of controversy where people do not know what the rules are. A whispered conversation is not authoritative. An anonymous comment on a blog is not authoritative. A party of disgruntled church members who "feel abused" is not authoritative. Instead, the key to true justice is due process conducted by wise men who know how to weigh evidence. God is justice, and it is because of His justice that Jesus went to the cross. Therefore, we must care about what justice is and how God says to pursue it.

Romans is more than a collection of proof texts for Reformed theology. It is an exposition of God's plan to take back the world. In this new commentary, Douglas Wilson tackles Paul's meaty letter passage by passage, explaining Paul's central message of the Gospel: Jesus's death and resurrection have transformed the world. God has brought an end to the old covenant and ushered in a new covenant, joining Jews and Gentiles in one new people. And if Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not, and thus the Gospel requires faithful Christians to defy tyrants when they usurp Jesus's place. If Romans hasn't seemed so before, then certainly by the end of this commentary it will appear to you as it did to Protestant theologian Fr d ric Godet-as "the cathedral of Christian faith."

As is the case with Doug's other poetry collections, Angels at Midnight, the fourth installment of poetry, tends to be a collection of "snapshots" of life that most of us can easily relate to. The poetry in Angels at Midnight is easy to understand, and will cause the reader to reflect and to feel.

"The 'manosphere' online is filled with a certain kind of red-pilled bitterness which, when it is coupled with evolutionary and materialistic assumptions, produces an odd mix of appalling selfishness and cynicism (and reductionism with regard to sex) coupled with common grace insights that you would never hear from an evangelical beta-preacher." from the bookDouglas Wilson writes to a young man on how he should pursue a woman. Feminism has catechized us in many lies about what makes the sexes attracted to each other, and evangelical pastors have often only reinforced those lies with platitudes about servant-leadership (heavy on the servant, light on the leadership). When they find out that being a doormat doesn't attract anyone, young men often rebound to the secular manosphere. Douglas Wilson offers his own commonsense advice, sharp-edged and thoroughly biblical, not just on how to be the kind of man who attracts the right woman, but how to be the kind of man that keeps her. Douglas Wilson is the pastor of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, a father of three, and grandfather of seventeen. He is the author of over a hundred books including Reforming Marriage, Why Children Matter, and How to Exasperate Your Wife.

Thirty years ago, Doug Wilson wrote Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning so that Christian parents could stop wringing their hands at the deterioration of American education and actually do something to resist it. That resistance begins with getting our children out of public secular schools, but it doesn't end there. We must also give our kids a thoroughly biblical education with the lordship of Jesus Christ at the center. The best structure for that education, Wilson argues, is the classical structure. And so the classical Christian education movement in America was born. Since the publication of this book, hundreds of classical Christian schools have been started (both nationally and internationally), and hundreds of thousands of homeschooling families have turned to classical Christian education as well. Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, originally published by Crossway in 1991, has been republished by Canon Press.

Get them out-now. Many Christian parents oppose our godless American culture, but how many of us are willing to put our money where our mouth is? In this short but spicy book, Douglas Wilson calls for Christian parents to remove their kids from public schools. Beginning with the commands in Scripture for parents to raise up their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, he shows that parents must not send their children to be catechized by unbelieving teachers and peers. Although he has many hard words for public schools, Doug pulls no punches on parents who assume that a Christian curriculum alone will fix all their problems. Parents need to train their kids' minds, bodies, and hearts so that they are prepared for the real world. This is a high and difficult calling, but we can look to God's promises to help us as we train our children.

Some people want to know what it is about November that makes us want to burn things. We don't think we have a moral obligation to be incendiary: the world for some mysterious reason has become flammable. Many Evangelical leaders will say the truth, but surround it with bubble wrap and a thousand qualifications. But every year in November, Douglas Wilson eschews his usual nuance, qualifications, and disclaimers to tell the truth about the craziness of our world. This book is Dogulas Wilson's No Quarter November 2021 contribution. The problem with qualifications is not that they are untrue, but that we not recognize how bad our condition actually is. Evangelicalism has been drifting steadily leftward and policing the sins to the right. The problem is not the policing: the problem is the hypocrisy and one-sidedness. As Doug reminds us, the only way out is repentance and the blood of Jesus Christ.

"If I were to calculate the impact that various writers have had on me-and there have been many who have-C. S. Lewis would always come in first, and by a large margin." Douglas WilsonIn this collection of essays, Douglas Wilson talks about one of the most beloved Christian writers of the twentieth-century: C. S. Lewis. Lewis was the kind of writer who, whether you agree with him or not, will edify and sharpen you. Douglas Wilson discusses everything from Lewis's odd images of salvation in The Last Battle to Lewis's view of creation to his take on heaven, hell, and education. Owen Barfield once said that what Lewis thought about everything came out in what he said about anything. Lewis's writing is powerful because he understood that everything in the universe proclaimed God's glory and thus shines with the personality of God, He Who is the "light from behind the sun."

They leave the shrine without regret, But they will long remember when, They came to cleanse their darkened souls, And they shall not return again.

The so-called New Atheists have a great deal of moral indignation at all the evil in the world, but, as apologist and theologian Douglas Wilson cheerfully points out, they have no moral basis for it whatsoever. If we are merely the result of billions of years of matter in motion, then why do we feel that concentration camps, genocide, apartheid, and the like are so obviously wicked and despicable, if in fact such events are just time and chance acting on matter? Harris, Hitchens, and Dawkins have made careers out of cataloguing the ways "religion" has messed up the world, from Old Testament genocide to the Spanish Inquisition to the Salem witch trials to Muslim extremism and beyond. However, Douglas Wilson shows that atheists stand on millennia of Christian culture and morality when they emphasize the problem of evil, and that atheistic materialism cannot give any account of truth, beauty, or goodness. A Christianity Today award-winning author and renowned debater, Wilson has many spicy and entertaining refutations to the specific claims of Harris, Hitchens, and Dawkins, but at the center of it all is the Gospel. The real foundation for morality is the fact that God has made us in His image and made us so that our consciences bear witness to His laws, even when we break them. As Wilson shows, man's only hope is the good news that Jesus has taken on the deserved penalty for all the evils of the world in His death on the cross. This book contains all three of Douglas Wilson's book-length responses to the New Atheists, published for the first time in one volume. It includes Letter from a Christian Citizen, written to Sam Harris; God Is, in reply to Christopher Hitchens; and The Deluded Atheist, a response to Richard Dawkins.

QUANDO THEODORE ROOSEVELT ensinou por um tempo na escola dominical, um garoto apareceu com um olho roxo. Ele admitiu que tinha brigado, e que tinha sido num domingo. Ele contou ao futuro presidente que um garoto grandalh o estava beliscando sua irm , e por isso eles brigaram. Roosevelt disse que ele havia agido perfeitamente bem e lhe deu um d lar. O reverendo achou que aquilo era um pouco demais, ent o dispensaram o destemido professor de escola dominical. A incredulidade n o consegue olhar para al m da superf cie. A incredulidade reprime; a f ensina. A f chama o garoto de lado, e lhe diz que parte daquilo que ele fez foi bom, embora outra parte tenha atrapalhado. "Ent o, eis o que voc deve fazer da pr xima vez..." medida que crescem, os garotos t m de lidar com uma por o de problemas diferentes. Em Futuros Homens, Douglas Wilson come a com um chamado aos pais, e ent o trata da import ncia de assuntos tais como dedica o aos estudos e esportes, o respeito pelas garotas, o desenvolvimento de uma no o profunda de trabalho tico, evitar as armadilhas do dinheiro, combater os dolos e pecados secretos. Este livro lan a os padr es b blicos de masculinidade sobre todas as fronteiras da vida de um garoto. DOUGLAS WILSON pastor da Christ Church em Moscow, Idaho, Estados Unidos, e editor da revista Credenda/Agenda. Ele autor de Futuros Homens, Reformando o Casamento, Fidelidade, O Marido Federal, O Fruto de Suas M os, Gloriosa Voca o, Sua Filha em Casamento e Minha Vida por Voc da s rie best-seller sobre fam lia, ambos publicados pela editora CLIRE. Casado com Nancy, tem tr s filhos e um mont o de netos.

"Douglas Wilson has accomplished with this book what every biographer ought to accomplish: He has enlightened for us an entire age and not just a single representation of that age." George Grant America's first poet, Anne Bradstreet, wrote poems regularly for her family's private enjoyment. But in 1647, unbeknownst to Anne, her brother-in-law set sail for England with a manuscript of her poetry. Upon his return, he presented her book to her: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. Anne was thoroughly embarrassed but also pleased. Subsequent generations have valued her gifts as a poet as well, and her poetry remains in print to this day. However, to the modern mind, Anne herself remains something of an enigmatic figure-a dedicated Puritan, housewife, and gifted poet. How these attributes can co-exist, feminists have yet to understand. This biography provides a deeper look at Anne Bradstreet's personal qualities, the vibrant poetry she created, and her contributions to the way of life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This book is a reprint of Stateliest Marble: The Passionate Femininity of Anne Bradstreet.