May the Lord be with you and bless you on this fine day. Today’s Kindle deals include a few more interesting titles. Your Short-Term Trip Should Be About You (and that’s not a bad thing). “I’m still a fan of short-term missions. This is not an anti-missions-trip article. Those are out there. This is not one of them. So why do I still encourage these trips? Because I believe God can use them to transform lives. Not necessarily the lives …
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Good morning from … Canada at last. I’m back home after making the overnight journey from São Paulo. As always, it’s good to be home. Today’s Kindle deals include mostly books that are meant for pastors and academics. (Yesterday on the blog: At the Center of All Things) The Sick Love of Controversy This is a helpful episode of Ask Pastor John in which he addresses those who have a love of controversy. The Assignment I Wasn’t Expecting Andrea Sanborn …
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This sponsored post was provided by Nelson Books and is adapted from Allen Parr’s book Misled: 7 Lies That Distort the Gospel (and How You Can Discern the Truth). The origins of progressive Christianity are complex. The movement embraces some aspects of liberal Christianity, which can be traced back to both Enlightenment-era rationalism and the Romanticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While progressive Christianity shares some features of the social gospel movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, …
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It was around 150 years after the birth of Christ that the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy determined that the earth must be at the center of the universe. If the earth was at the center, then the sun and the moon and the stars and the planets must orbit around it. Though many people had observed and assumed such geocentrism in the centuries prior, it was Ptolemy who standardized the view and who proved it to the satisfaction of very nearly …
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Good morning from Brazil where I am beginning to make my homeward journey after a successful week recording another episode of Worship Round the World. Today’s Kindle deals include some high-quality devotional resources. (Yesterday on the blog: Restful Blissful Ignorance) Christianity Challenges the (Stoic) Spirit I’m glad to see this examination of the growing popularity of stoicism. “Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Cameron Hanes, David Goggins, Jocko Willink. What unites them? They’re gurus of a new self-help philosophy and lifestyle: grind …
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