Author: Tim Challies

A La Carte (July 18)

Grace and peace to you, my friends. I wanted to remind you of my book launch event in Nashville on Labor Day. I’d love to see you there. It’s a free event with Alistair Begg and CityAlight. There are some nice new Kindle deals available today. (Yesterday on the blog: Prayers To Pray While You Preach, Lead, and Sing) How to Get More Out of Church “As a pastor, I’m burdened for Christians to get more out of church.” So …

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Prayers To Pray While You Preach, Lead, and Sing

Those who preach or lead during corporate worship services will probably be familiar with the strange phenomenon of having multiple “tracks” playing in your mind at once. Even as you preach the sermon or lead the songs, your mind may be flitting about from the distraction of a crying baby to the fear that you will flub your lines to the idolatrous hope that your listeners will be wowed by your skill. It’s for this reason that it is wise …

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Weekend A La Carte (July 16)

May you know the Lord’s blessings this weekend! (Yesterday on the blog: From Everlasting to Everlasting) After the fire “Our family was driving through the Var region of southern France recently, and we passed through an area that had been burned in a forest fire just last summer. The scars of that destruction were still clearly visible, but what was astonishing was the amount of green already bursting forth, the unstoppable life pushing through and undoing all the hard work …

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Free Stuff Fridays (Reformation Fellowship)

This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Reformation Fellowship. They are giving away two tickets to the Reformation Fellowship Conference in Atlanta (November 11–12), and 5 exclusive copies of Right with God, the new book from Michael Reeves. This Fall, Michael Reeves – with Dane Ortlund, Philip Ryken, Jeff Norris, Gwenfair Adams, and Bradley Green – will be hosting the first Reformation Fellowship conference. Over two days, November 11–12, 2022, a new network of friends will be gathering at Perimeter …

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From Everlasting to Everlasting

I have fond memories of the early days of the Reformed resurgence. These were the days in the early 2000s when so many people were discovering, or rediscovering, the deep and historic truths of the Reformed tradition. Everyone was writing about the five solas and the five points, marveling at how they display God’s glory. Soli deo gloria, indeed. But it seems to me that somewhere along the way people stopped writing about those truths. They began to assume them …

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