John F. MacArthur Jr. Books In Order

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John F. MacArthur Jr.
John F. MacArthur, Jr. was born June 19, 1939 in Los Angeles, California. He is the grandson of Canadian Anglican minister Harry MacArthur and the son of Jack MacArthur (Baptist radio preacher) and Irene Dockendorf.

John followed in his dad’s footsteps by enrolling at the fundamentalist Bob Jones College from 1957 to 1959. After a year off, in 1960, he was accepted to the Free Methodist Church’s Los Angeles Pacific College, where during his senior year he observed two football games, and went on field for a play.

In 1963, he was granted a Masters of Divinity from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles’ new Talbot Theological Seminary, in La Mirada, California, with honors. MacArthur was also given an honorary degree from Talbot Theological Seminary (Doctor of Divinity, 1977) and from Grace Graduate School.

While John was at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, his dad recruited him to the Voice of Cavalry singing quartet, which was often broadcast on Christian radio in Southern California. From 1964 to 1966, MacArthur was hired by his dad as associate pastor at the Harry MacArthur Memorial Bible Church, which his dad Jack had named and planted after his own dad. From 1966 to 1969, John was hired as the faculty representative for Talbot Theological Seminary. On February 9, 1969, he was hired as the third and the youngest pastor at the nondenominational Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California.

“Grace to You”, his daily radio and TV program, which is now broadcast to much of the world, was created by the Grace media team in order to publicize audio cassettes of sermons. And in 1977, it was first broadcast in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1985, MacArthur was made President of Los Angeles Baptist College, a four year Christian liberal arts college. In 1986, he was made President of the new Master’s Seminary.

Almost 43 years after starting in the pulpit of Grace Community, he completed one of his own personal life goals, that of preaching through the whole entire New Testament on June 5, 2011.

“Found: God’s Will” is a non-fiction book that was released in 1972. You might want to shout and jump around when you read the sixth principle for knowing when you’ve found God’s will.

The sixth principle is “Do whatever you want” just as long as the first five principles are operating in your life. Read about all six principles to better comprehend what the psalmist means when he urges “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart” (Psalm 37:4).

The MacArthur Study Series is designed to help Christians better comprehend and apply the Bible by better comprehending some of its key truths and doctrines.

“The Gospel According to Jesus: What does Jesus Mean When He Says “Follow Me”?” is a non-fiction book that was released in 1988. The first edition of this book won wide acclaim in confronting the ‘easy-believism’ which has characterized some quarters in evangelical Christianity. The expanded edition deepens the debate over ‘lordship salvation’ and the biblical comprehension of faith and works in adding an appendix and three new chapters.

The new chapters: The Promise of Justification, Tetelestail! The Triumph is Complete, and The Vine and the Branches. The appendix contains answers to the most often asked questions on the topic of what Jesus truly meant when he said ‘Follow me’.

“Twelve Ordinary Men: How the Master Shaped His Disciples for Greatness and What He Wants to Do With You” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2002. Contrary to popular belief, we don’t have to be perfect to do God’s work. Look no further than the twelve disciples whose many weaknesses are forever preserved throughout the pages of the New Testament.

Jesus chose ordinary men (political zealots, fishermen, and tax collectors) and he turned their weaknesses into strength, producing greatness from total uselessness. MacArthur draws principles from Christ’s careful and hands-on training of the original twelve disciples for today’s modern disciple. You.

“Twelve Ordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible and What He Wants to Do With You” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2005. Celebrated for their vision, hospitality, bravery, and spiritual giftedness, it is no wonder women were so very important to God’s plan being revealed in the New and Old Testaments. It was not just their natural qualities which made these women extraordinary but the power of the one true God whom they worshiped and served.

In this book, you will learn more than just fascinating information about each of these women, you will find (possibly for the first time) the unmistakable chronology of God’s redemptive work in history through each of their lives. These women were not simply ancillary to His plan, they were right at the very heart of it.

Some women that you’ll come to know include: Anna, Ruth, Mary and Martha, Mary Magdalene, Hannah, Sarah, and The Samaritan woman.

You will be challenged and motivated by such a personal and poignant look into the lives of some of the Bible’s most faithful women. Their temptations and struggles are the same exact trials that were faced by all believers from all ages. And the God to whom they were so committed is the same God who continues to use and mold ordinary people to this day.

“Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2010. A cover-up of Biblical proportions. Centuries back, English translators perpetrated this fraud in the New Testament, and it has been purposely hidden and covered up ever since. Your own Bible is probably included in this cover up.

In this book, John unveils the clarifying and essential revelation which might be keeping you from a fulfilling, and correct, relationship with God. It is controversial and powerful. And with brand new eyes you will see the riches of your salvation in a radically new way.

What does it mean to be a Christian in the way that Jesus defined it? MacArthur says that it all boils down to just one word. Slave. We have been bought with a price. We belong to Christ. We’re His own possession.