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Knowing Sin: Seeing a Neglected Doctrine Through the Eyes of the Puritans is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first rule of combat is: know your enemy. We don’t talk a lot about sin these days. But maybe we should. The Puritans sure did—because they understood sin’s deceptive power and wanted to root it out of their lives. Shouldn’t we want the same? Though many books have been written on the “doctrine of sin,” few are as practical and applicable as this one. In Knowing Sin, Mark Jones puts his...

knowing God, your greatest advocate, nothing else in this world is more important than knowing sin, your greatest enemy. Perhaps only the most introspective and morbid souls would venture to read a book on sin—and one so heavily influenced by the Puritans, who dealt with the topic meticulously, forthrightly, and extensively. Yet few theological topics are as needed in the church today as the doctrine of sin (hamartiology). Christians should know that a proper understanding of grace requires a thorough