Author: Tim Challies

Where Did All This Expository Preaching Come From?

Where Did All This Expository Preaching Come From?

Posted by | Apr 10, 2023 | |

There’s no doubt that, at least within Reformed churches, this is an age of expository preaching—of preaching sequentially through books of the Bible while always ensuring that the point of the text is the point of the sermon. Yet you do not need to look far into history to find that it was not always so and that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such preaching was rare. I was intrigued by Bob Fyall’s explanation of how expository …

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A La Carte (April 10)

A La Carte (April 10)

Posted by | Apr 9, 2023 | |

Good morning. Grace and peace to you on this fine day. Today’s Kindle deals include some great titles from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: A Prayer for Our Pastors) 5 Lessons from the Japanese American Internment What an interesting article. It shares some lessons from the Japanese American internment during the Second World War, focusing on the Christians who were in the camps. A Sexular Society “We used to live in a religious world, where your religious belief defined who …

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A Prayer for Our Pastors

A Prayer for Our Pastors

Posted by | Apr 9, 2023 | |

What a joy and what a blessing it is to pray for our spiritual leaders—to ask God to bless them, to sanctify them, and to equip them for the ministry he calls them to. This prayer by John Flavel (as found in Tim Chester’s Into His Presence) offers words we can pray on their behalf. Lord, cleanse our churches, and repair their walls, so they may become gardens of delight for Christ to walk in and take pleasure in. May her …

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Weekend A La Carte (April 8)

Weekend A La Carte (April 8)

Posted by | Apr 8, 2023 | |

I am grateful to Crown and Covenant Publications for sponsoring the blog this week. There are a few new Kindle deals that are worth a look. (Yesterday on the blog: Identity and the Worship of Self) “Where is Your Faith?” “How did you survive the death of a child? It is a question my husband and I often get when people hear our story. It transports me back to that moment over 20 years ago when our sweet daughter left this …

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Free Stuff Fridays (Grassmarket Press)

Free Stuff Fridays (Grassmarket Press)

Posted by | Apr 7, 2023 | |

This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Grassmarket Press, a new imprint of Crown & Covenant Publications. They are giving away the first three books from Grassmarket Press (I Have a Confession by Nathan Eshelman, What Is Love? by Kyle Borg, and Worship, Feasting, Rest, Mercy by Daniel Howe) to each of ten winners. Grassmarket Press aims to provide short books on Reformed and Presbyterian teaching and practice—for regular people. Each book is slim and lightweight, yet durable. They …

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