This week you can find 50% off on the ESV Journaling Bibles at Westminster Books. They are a great resource for better understanding and applying the Bible. (Yesterday on the blog: Breathe a Sigh of Relief or Recoil in Terror) How Evangelicals Lose Will Make All the Difference That’s an intriguing headline, isn’t it? And it’s got a good article behind it. The Gray Havens – I’ll Fly Away (Live from The Zion Caravan Tour) I enjoyed this new rendition …
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A single object can be a source of comfort to one person and a source of fear to another. The same object can make one person breathe a great sigh of relief and another to recoil in terror. The one holding tight to the grip of a gun feels very differently about this firearm than the one who is staring toward its business end. The one who is being robbed feels very differently about the sound of approaching sirens than …
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May the Lord be with you and bless you today. (Yesterday on the blog: Now Available: Understanding and Trusting Our Great God) What Makes a Bible Translation Really Bad? I really enjoyed this look at what makes a Bible translation especially bad. “If you find an English Bible translation on your Christian bookstore shelf, it’s almost certainly good. Buy it. Read it. Trust it. But there are some ‘bad Bibles’ out there, Bibles you won’t find careful evangelical biblical scholars …
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If you have been visiting this site for any length of time, you will have seen some SquareQuotes—the quotes combined with graphics that I release every day both here and across social media. A couple of years ago I teamed up with Jules Koblun (the artist who creates them) and Harvest House Publishers to create a devotional book, Knowing and Enjoying God. Subtitled “Words from the Wise,” it combined 101 original quote graphics with short devotionals. Today I am pleased to …
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Like everyone else, I’m intrigued by Threads. If you’re there, why not connect. Today’s Kindle deals include an edition of Calvin’s Institutes that is a great value. (Yesterday on the blog: When You Don’t Like Your Wife, Love Your Wife) Bad Readers and Their Twitter Swarms I consider this a very important article if we are ever to learn to behave ourselves on Twitter (and other social media). “Gregoire’s treatment of Pearcey’s argument would be laughed out of any serious …
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