John Owen website

My good friend Bill Davis went home to heaven on Monday. He was a lover of John Owen--a Puritan theologian who lived in the 1600's. By common consensus he is the weightest of the Puritans--being both a pastor and a theologian. I had read some of Owen's works before I met Bill, but he introduced me to him in a greater depth. Owen is not to be read casually, that is for sure. Bill had most of his writings, several volumes printed by Banner of Truth.

To read John Owen is to enter a rare world. Whenever I return to one of his works I find myself asking “Why do I spend time reading lesser literature?”
—Sinclair B. Ferguson

John Owen’s treatises on Indwelling Sin in Believers and The Mortification of Sin are, in my opinion, the most helpful writings on personal holiness ever written.
—Jerry Bridges

I owe more to John Owen than to any other theologian, ancient or modern; and I owe more to [The Mortification of Sin] than to anything else he wrote.
—J.I. Packer

There is constantly in Owen, even when we are in the thick of him (and some of his writing is dense indeed) a doxological motive and motif. If we can persevere with his style (which becomes easier the longer we persevere), he will not fail to bring us to the feet of Jesus.
—Sinclair B. Ferguson

Just a few weeks before his death, I had emailed Bill a new website devoted to Owens. He emailed me back with "Wow! Thanks!" May others benefit from from the work of John Owens as Bill did.