Author: Tim Challies

Emerging From Our Trials Unscathed

Emerging From Our Trials Unscathed

Posted by | Sep 19, 2022 | |

It’s undoubtedly one of the most-told and best-loved stories in the entire Old Testament. It has all the hallmarks of a great tale—heroes and villains and peril and deliverance. It tells of faithful young men who faced unjust persecution, faithful young men who were sentenced to die a horrific death—to be consumed by flames in a fiery furnace. Yet it also tells how they were unexpectedly and miraculously delivered; how, though they were thrown into the flames bound hand and …

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A La Carte (September 19)

A La Carte (September 19)

Posted by | Sep 19, 2022 | |

I wanted to remind you, in case you missed it on the weekend, that ChristianBook.com has Seasons of Sorrow marked down by 40%. Today’s Kindle deals include a number of commentaries published by Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: Not a Matter of Pitch or Tone) All Souls Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) This is a fitting tribute to the Queen on the day of her funeral. Will You Be Good at Your Thing Today? Here’s a good question: Will …

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Not a Matter of Pitch or Tone

Not a Matter of Pitch or Tone

Posted by | Sep 18, 2022 | |

God commands us to sing. Yet while some of God’s people are gifted singers, the plain fact is that others are not. In any congregation it’s likely that some have near-perfect pitch while others are functionally tone-deaf. Those who struggle to sing may be self-conscious, tempted to stay quiet or to do no more than mumble along. Should they? Not at all, for singing is a matter of the heart before it is a matter of pitch or tone. In …

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Weekend A La Carte (September 17)

Weekend A La Carte (September 17)

Posted by | Sep 17, 2022 | |

I am going to be offering period reminders that, if you’ve read and appreciated Seasons of Sorrow, leaving a review (or even a simple star rating) at Amazon will take just a few seconds and be a big help. There are a few new Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: Turnaround) We Are Not Disposable This is such a good and important article from Samuel James’ Substack (which is well worth a subscription). “I’ve written before about Facebook, and how the Facebook …

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Turnaround

Turnaround

Posted by | Sep 16, 2022 | |

There are a lot of people in the world who are in positions of leadership, but there are not a lot of true leaders. There are many people who achieve positions of prominence, but few who can back up that position with the ability to lead. And though the shelves of bookstores are groaning under the weight of all the books dedicated to the topic, and though they seem to sell in such vast quantities, still few of us can …

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