Logos is having a Memorial Day sale that is offering a good number of products at solid discounts. Also remember that this month Base Packages are on sale. Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of worthwhile titles. (Yesterday on the blog: Seasons of Sorrow: Updates, Awards, and Aileen’s First Interview) Are They the Ones Who Pray All the Time? Wouldn’t that be a great way to be known—to be the ones who pray all the time? Cynicism Isn’t a Spiritual …
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It has been about 8 months since the release of my book Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God. And it has been an encouraging time. I wanted to share a few updates and pieces of information that may be of interest to you. Perhaps the greatest encouragement has come from grieving families who have gotten in touch to share how the book has been meaningful to them. Subsequent to that has been people who …
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Westminster Books is offering 50% off when you buy ESV Pew Bibles. It’s a good time for churches to stock up! You Can’t Tear Down the Norm and Then Be Surprised by What Comes Next Andrew Sullivan recently shared a column in which he lamented the rise of queer ideology. But, as Amy Hall shows here, he is conveniently absolving himself of blame that is actually his. “Sullivan doesn’t like where his advocacy ultimately led. He wants to quarantine his …
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Blessings to you today. (Yesterday on the blog: The Freedom of Embracing My Weaknesses) Thousands of Happy, Unwitting Plagiarists: The Shaping Legacy of Tim Keller I really appreciated Jared Wilson’s tribute to Tim Keller. (See also Paul Tripp’s) God’s Grace in Our Weakness “The longer I walk with God, the smaller I recognize myself to be—small power, small thinking, small faith, small resistance to sin. I am not great. Surprisingly, this has not discouraged me.” The Radius Conference PLENARY TOPICS: …
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I am tip-toeing—or perhaps lurching—toward the age of 50. Whatever it means to be middle-aged, I am indisputably now well within that range. This stage of life has introduced some new trials, new difficulties, and new indignities, many of them related to a body that is no longer what it once was. But this stretch of time has also introduced some blessings. Among those blessings is a sense of realism about myself that may have been missing in my younger …
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