I do not share many guest articles but do like to do so occasionally, especially when the circumstances warrant it. This is one of those times. This article was written by Kristyn Getty as a means of explaining the context of a new hymn, “God of Every Grace.” I trust you’ll enjoy the hymn even more as you learn when and why it was written. Sixteen years ago we were invited to sing “In Christ Alone” at the opening of …
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Good morning from beautiful, chilly New Zealand. This week Westminster Books has a deal on the new CSB Life Counsel Bible. Today’s Kindle deals include another pretty good little list of titles. My Heavenly Father Taught Me Not to Hate My Earthly One Dudu Mkhize explains her troubled relationship with her father and then tells what healed it. When Puzzles Drive Me Mad Chris Thomas: “I’m the kind of guy that likes to have stuff figured out, to have it …
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Good morning. Grace and peace to you. The whole ZECNT series of excellent commentaries is on sale in today’s Kindle deals. (Yesterday on the blog: When We Follow God’s Plan) The Internet and Christian Catholicity Samuel James makes lots of helpful points here as he considers the challenges of Christian catholicity in the age of the internet. Do Christians Really Suffer in America? Do Christians actually suffer in present day America? John Piper answers the question here. Blind To The …
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Today’s post is sponsored by BJU Seminary and written by Renton Rathbun, who directs BJU’s Center for Biblical Worldview, contributes to the Seminary’s apologetics program, and speaks across the country on biblical worldview and apologetics. BJU Seminary equips Christian leaders through an educational and ministry experience that is biblically shaped, theologically rich, historically significant, and evangelistically robust. We live in a world where 62% of American pastors have a syncretistic worldview. It was pastors who enabled the success of the …
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When I was a child, the maps in my Bible got me through many a sermon. I was rarely interested in listening to the preacher, so I would flip to the back pages of the Bible to study the maps there. I would gaze at the contours of the lands of the Middle East. I would observe how Abraham had obeyed God and left his country and his kindred and his father’s house to journey to the land that God …
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