Author: Tim Challies

Free Stuff Fridays (Christian Focus)

Posted by | May 13, 2022 | |

This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Christian Focus.  They are giving away five-book sets of Tell God How You Feel: Helping Kids with Hard Emotions and God Hears Your Heart: Helping Kids Pray about Hard Emotions by Christina Fox. As emotional beings, we all have feelings. And in a fallen world, some of those feelings are difficult. Fear. Grief. Sadness. Disappointment. Guilt. Loneliness. Anger. We learn from an early age ways to navigate such hard emotions. For some …

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Laying Ambushes — A Family Update on a Special Weekend

Laying Ambushes — A Family Update on a Special Weekend

Posted by | May 13, 2022 | |

Like so many Canadian boys of his era, Nick went through a pretty significant Nerf Gun phase when he was 8 or 10 years old. Between several birthdays and Christmases he built up quite an arsenal and, for a time, most of his play would in some way involve these guns. There was one game he especially enjoyed. When he found out that guests were on their way over, he would hide outside and watch for their approach. When they …

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A La Carte (May 13)

A La Carte (May 13)

Posted by | May 13, 2022 | |

May the Lord be with you and bless you today. I have only found one Kindle deals so far today, but it’s a good one at least. Why Pro-Abortion Activists Desecrate Churches Carl Trueman: “The church service is not simply a convenient place to intimidate pro-life campaigners. To attack a worship service is not simply to annoy the participants. It is to profane the sacred. It is to enact that which abortion itself represents. It is to spit on the very identity …

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A La Carte (May 12)

A La Carte (May 12)

Posted by | May 12, 2022 | |

Good morning! Grace and peace to you. (Yesterday on the blog: Keys To Knowing God’s Will for Your Life) Still Chris Thomas: “Stillness can be elusive; a mirage of anticipation that beckons yet fails to deliver. I’ve searched for it, grasped at it, despaired at it, and been surprised by it. Sometimes I’ve forgotten it. But then, like an old friend unseen for a decade or more, stillness creeps up on me in some hidden place and embraces me as though …

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Keys To Knowing God’s Will for Your Life

Keys To Knowing God’s Will for Your Life

Posted by | May 11, 2022 | |

Of all the issues related to Christian living, few receive greater attention than knowing God’s will for our lives. Many believers, and especially younger ones, agonize over knowing what God means for them to do and how he means for them to live out their days. Many end up leaning toward a low-grade form of mysticism, longing to receive some kind of a sign from the skies or some kind of a word in their hearts. Many live with hesitation, …

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