Good morning. Grace and peace to you. Today’s Kindle deals include a selection from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: I Am Under the Unerring Care of God) United States of Abortion: A Grave History in Five Threads Marvin Olasky traces the history of abortion in the US and explains how it requires the answers to five questions. Advice from a Retiring Minister There is such great advice here from a retiring minister. He speaks with the voice of love and …
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Whatever circumstances we may encounter in life, whatever difficulties may befall us, whatever suffering we may have to pass through, we can have the highest confidence that none of it has come apart from the knowledge and the will of God. As the Catechism says, God “watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.” …
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My thanks goes to Reformation Heritage Books for sponsoring the blog this week. Their book Taming the Fingers is an important one for our times! Today’s Kindle deals include several newer books and a few older ones as well. (Yesterday on the blog: Missionary, Explorer, Abolitionist) How Were the Books of the Bible “Chosen”? As you may surmise from the quotation marks around the world “chosen,” that this doesn’t exactly describe what happened. “This particular framing of the question has …
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Good morning from beautiful Sydney, Australia where I’m beginning to film another episode of Worship Round the World. Mind Your Platform “I fear that we may have begun adopting these tools with little scrutiny. We marvel at the fact that things ‘can be done’ and skip over the question of ‘should they be done?’ How are we to think about our relationship to the platforms available to us? While our engagement with social media and platforms will vary greatly depending …
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There are some historical figures whose every sin seems to get overlooked and whose every virtue seems to get amplified. Conversely, there are other historical figures whose every virtue seems to get overlooked and whose every sin seems to get amplified. I would place the modern understanding of David Livingstone squarely in the latter category. Though he was most certainly a flawed individual, it seems that today he is known only for those flaws rather than for his many strengths. …
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