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Owen on the Christian Life: Living for the Glory of God in Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

John Owen is widely regarded as one of the most influential English Puritans. As a pastor, he longed to see the glory of Christ take root in people’s lives. As a writer, he continues to encourage us toward discipline and communion with God. His high view of God and deep theological convictions flowed naturally into practical application and a zeal for personal holiness. In Owen on the Christian...

that Owen will focus on, for it is a “mutual communication in giving and receiving, after a most holy and spiritual manner, which is between God and the saints while they walk together in a covenant of peace, ratified in the blood of Jesus.”16 Before moving on, however, it must be stressed that Owen’s aim in this study of communion with God is that God our Father—who has rescued us through the blood of his own Son and by the “riches of his own grace,” recovering us “from a state of enmity into a
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