Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there's a "next-best-thing," if only we would change our comfortable, compromising lives. In fact, the greatest fear most Christians have is boredom--the sense that they are missing out on the radical life Jesus promised. One thing is certain. No one wants to be "ordinary."

Yet pastor and author Michael Horton believes that our attempts to measure our spiritual growth by our experiences, constantly seeking after the next big breakthrough, have left many Christians disillusioned and...

Meredith G. Kline is famous in the Reformed community
for his teaching and writings in the area of biblical and
covenant theology. In the mid-1990s, just after Kline finished
writing what is considered to be his magnum opus (a study
of the book of Genesis called Kingdom Prologue), he wrote a
brief commentary on the same biblical text. Genesis: A New
Commentary was not published during his lifetime and is just
now being made available to the public.

Many of Kline s former students, as well as many pastors and
laypeople in the Reformed...