Author: Tim Challies

A La Carte (August 16)

There’s an eclectic little collection of Kindle deals to browse through today. (Yesterday on the blog: What Can a Heart Do?) Is Your Gospel an Urban Legend? Jared Wilson asks you to consider whether the gospel you profess is really just a kind of personal urban legend. Planes Have Nothing on Birds I hate all the evolutionary talk in this article, but I do appreciate the point it makes: Humanity’s best attempts at designing planes still fall far, far short of the …

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What Can a Heart Do?

What can a heart do? What actions do we associate with the human heart? A heart can beat; a heart can race; a heart can stop. That’s all very literal and speaks to the heart as a physical part of our bodies. But we also speak of the heart metaphorically as the place of our emotions. And so we say that a heart can long and love, it can hurt and break. We even say that a heart can be …

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A La Carte (August 15)

Grace and peace to you today. Crossway has a number of Kindle deals on theological books. (Yesterday on the blog: God Means To Make Something Of Us) The twisted self “Many of us are familiar with books and movies in which plots revolve around characters who find themselves trapped in worlds where nothing works in quite the way they expect. Whether it is Alice wandering through Wonderland or Keanu Reeves trapped in the Matrix, they feel disoriented, confused, and anxious. And that …

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God Means To Make Something Of Us

We pray that God will deliver us from our trials, but sometimes he does not. He pray that he will relieve us of our burdens, but sometimes they remain pressed hard against our shoulders. Why? J.R. Miller provides a helpful answer in this brief quote. Some think that whenever they have a little trouble, a bit of hard path to walk over, a load to carry, a sorrow to meet, a trial of any kind, all they have to do …

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Weekend A La Carte (August 13)

Westminster Books has deals on a book meant to help you understand theology and one another that is meant to keep pastors from wavering. (Yesterday on the blog: Tearing Us Apart) A chat with Carl Trueman I enjoyed WORLD magazine’s chat with Carl Trueman. Is he really learning the banjo? How Ordinary Worship Is both Reverent and Relevant This article lays out two errors in the way churches worship and says “on the surface, these two approaches to worship look …

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