Earlier this year I was reading J. C. Ryle’s Thoughts for Young Men. I stumbled across this brief text (about 100 pages) in a “Top 20 of 2020” list from Banner of Truth (one of my favorite publishers) – and I’m sure glad I did, for I found it a hard hitting and highly motivating book.
J. I. Packer described Ryle as “a single-minded Christian communicator of profound biblical, theological, and practical wisdom, a man and minister of giant personal stature and electric force of utterance that sympathetic readers still feel.”
Regarding this book in particular, one young reviewer wrote, “I can just say I wish I had this book at the age of 15.” Me too, friend, me too. Continue reading “…but I must decrease (J. C. Ryle on Pride)”
Toward Articulation 