Author: Tim Challies

Weekend A La Carte (March 19)

God bless you as you serve him today and worship him tomorrow! There’s a nice combination of older and newer books in today’s list of Kindle deals. (Yesterday on the blog: Hymns in Hard Places) Is Disability Normal? “We … can sometimes be confused about how disability impacts life in this world. But it’s only when we understand how Western society views disability, and how this contrasts with the Bible’s view, that we can begin to better understand the experience of disability …

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Hymns in Hard Places

What would it mean to write hymns that speak specifically to the concerns, challenges, and temptations of your church? Not the global church or the church in general, mind you, but your own local church? What themes would be most important to those people? What truths might they have trouble believing and what doctrines might they have trouble applying to their lives? What temptations do they face that may not be addressed even in the wealth of Christian hymns that …

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A La Carte (March 18)

The Lord be with you and bless you today. Logos users, you’ll want to check in with the March Matchups voting. Today’s Kindle deals include some solid books from Crossway. Liturgy of the Powers Carl Trueman: “While trans-affirming feminists rule the airwaves and shut down all dissent, and while politicians like Dodds talk and talk and yet say nothing, real women’s rights are neglected and damaged. Trans ideology robs women of their history and takes male privilege to a whole …

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A La Carte (March 17)

To the person who said hello yesterday when I was out and about: It was great to meet you, however briefly. I apologize that I was “in the zone” and didn’t get out of it on time to get to know you more! Today’s Kindle deals include some good picks from Zondervan. (Yesterday on the blog: A Prayer for the Bereaved) The Internet Is Pornographically-Shaped “The sense of an absolute kind of power to immediately satisfy any curiosity, any itch, …

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A Prayer for the Bereaved

Father in heaven, I acknowledge that you are the one who bestows good gifts and you are the one who recalls them again. It is by your hand that each of us is brought to life and by your hand that each of us is called into death. You are the one who gives and you are the one who takes away. And so I bless your name. Father, it has been your will to take away one that I …

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