Welcome to five minutes in church history hosted by Dr Stephen Nichols, where we take a little

break from the present to go exploring the past. Travel back in time as we look at the people,

events, and even the places that have shaped the story of Christianity.

This is our story, our family history. Let's get started.

Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.

On this episode, we are returning to our deserted island and we have a very special

guest with us.

Our guest today is Dr. John MacArthur. Dr. MacArthur, welcome.

Thank you so much. It's great to be here.

Well, this is an interesting deserted island. It's a very theologically rich deserted island.

Somebody has left it stocked with Augustine and the works of Edwards and we can

go back to the reformers, Calvin and Luther is here.

So you're going to have quite a library for your stay on the deserted island. But in addition to those books, if you could

just take five books with you on your deserted island, what five books would they be?

Wow, it's always hard to pin them down to five, but I think the first

book and I say this because it had such a profound impact on me historically would be

Stephen Charnock's existence and attributes of God.

I didn't grow up in a reformed environment.

I grew up in a pretty basic sort of vanilla typical evangelical environment and when I

discovered Reformed theology I first discovered it in Charnock that was the

first thing that I read and I didn't know that it was

possible to have that many thoughts about God. It's inexhaustible. That book

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