Doubt & Assurance
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
“Healing assurance that honestly deals with my doubts and needs takes into account who I am and how holy God truly is.” In these words, John Richard DeWitte describes the quest for spiritual confidence in Doubt and Assurance. The uplifting essays, adapted from Tabletalk Magazine, find a sunny side to doubt and set out the Bible limits for assurance. Contributors are Steve Brown, John Richard DeWitt, Sinclair Ferguson, John Gerstner, Os Guinness, W. Andrew Hoffecker, Ron Kilpatrick, Alister McGrath, Roger Nicole, R. C. Sproul, R. Bruce Steward. They address such vital questions as: Are my doubts caused by unbelief? What is happening when God seems absent? Can I really be sure I am saved? Here is the path to honest, healing confidence in God’s holiness, goodness, and sufficiency.
Top Highlights
“First, unbelief can be nurtured by an unrealistic attitude to faith.” (source)
“The more you worry about your doubts the less you look to God. Gradually, those vital links with the life-giving grace of God will wither—and your spiritual life will wither and shrivel.” (source)
“become so obsessed with your own mental states and your feelings that God is shut out of your life.” (source)
“longing to be sure of the things in which we trust.” (source)
“When does doubt become unbelief? Answer: When you let it, by clinging to unrealistic ideas about faith, by getting hopelessly preoccupied with the doubts that are a natural part of the Christian life, or by failing to allow faith to grow. These pitfalls can all be avoided. Don’t feel ashamed about your doubts. Talking them through with older and wiser Christians can be a vital safety valve that releases a head of doubting steam—a head of steam which could eventually lead from normal doubt to the hopelessness of unbelief.” (source)
- Title: Doubt & Assurance
- Author: R. C. Sproul
- Edition: electronic ed.
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 1993
- Logos Release Date: 2000
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Faith
- ISBNs: 0801083524, 9780801083525
- Resource ID: LLS:42.110.50
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T20:20:14Z
R. C. Sproul (1939– 2017) was a respected teacher, theologian, pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries in Orlando FL. He was also first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. His radio program, Renewing Your Mind, is still broadcast daily on hundreds of radio stations around the world and can also be heard online.
Sproul held degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary. He taught at several colleges and seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He served as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, in Sanford, Florida. Sproul’s teaching can be heard daily on the “Renewing Your Mind” radio broadcast which plays in over 40 countries.
Sproul wrote over 70 books and articles including the classic The Holiness of God and several theological articles in Tabletalk magazine.
