Author: Tim Challies

A La Carte (October 10)

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians! Today’s Kindle deals include several volumes of the excellent Preaching the Word series of commentaries (which are ideal for devotional reading or sermon preparation or anything in between). (Yesterday on the blog: Seasons of Sorrow Application Questions & Group Study Guide) When My Iranian Friend Took Mohler’s Parking Spot This one gave me a laugh. “‘Hi, this is campus po-lees,’ began the thick Kentucky accent. ‘Are you A.W.?’ ‘I am. Is everything OK?’ I replied, suddenly nervous. ‘Well… …

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Seasons of Sorrow Application Questions & Group Study Guide

Since releasing Seasons of Sorrow I have been asked if I can provide application questions (for people who may be reading it individually and who wish to be deliberate in applying what they read) and a group study guide (for people who may be reading it with a Bible study, small group, or reading group). Preparing such resources was on my list of things to do—and is now done. The free Seasons of Sorrow Application Questions & Group Study Guide is …

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Weekend A La Carte (October 8)

The Lord bless and keep you as you serve him this weekend. There’s a pretty good list of Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: Christian, When Persecution Comes: Embrace It) The Great Tribulation—When and How Long? “I am often asked whether or not the ‘tribulation’ is a seven year period which immediately precedes the second coming of Jesus Christ, or is it the entire period of time between Christ’s first and second advent, the so-called ‘great tribulation?’” Kim Riddelbarger answers from …

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Free Stuff Fridays (P&R Publishing)

This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by P&R Publishing. They are offering Divine Providence to 10 winners. Rigorous, practical, and deeply reverent, Divine Providence speaks to the struggles of believers today as it tackles difficult questions with biblical truth: Does God govern the world—and how? Is God the author of sin? Why do good people suffer while bad people thrive? What does God’s providence mean for how we should live our lives? In a masterful discourse, Puritan theologian Stephen Charnock arms us …

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Christian, When Persecution Comes: Embrace It

The Christian faith is counterintuitive in any number of ways, but perhaps none so much as in its perspective on suffering and, particularly, its perspective on suffering persecution. We may see this most clearly in the actions of the apostles who, after being imprisoned and beaten, “left the presence of the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name” (Acts 5:41). Of course they must not have been surprised to suffer persecution because, as I’ve …

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