After many months, I finished Above All Earthly Pow'rs by David Wells this evening. I ended up reading his books in reverse order probably because I was intimidated by No Place for Truth after I started it. Losing Our Virtue, Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision is waiting in the queue. I providentially stumbled upon Dr. Wells in 2008 while listening to one of John Piper's biographical talks. Piper quoted a passage from No Place for Truth which immediately grabbed my attention . I then listened to Dr. Wells' talks from the 1998 Desiring God Pastors Conference. All sorts of light bulbs went on in my head when I listened to his assessment of the state of the our culture and its effect on the church. Oddly enough, Dr. Wells' description of the autonomous self shed light on my personal situation at the time. I highly recommend Dr. Wells' books. They're not easy reading, but a well-researched analysis of cultu...