Grace and peace to you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of good books. (Yesterday on the blog: When We Go Unnourished) What I Learned About Love When I Met My Son This is a sweet reflection on the love of a father for a son. “When I met my son that day, I suddenly realised why the father of the prodigal in Jesus’ parable ran so hard to welcome the return of his son who had rejected him. …
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My dad sometimes got exasperated with me. He sometimes got exasperated with me and, looking back, I can’t say I blame him. After all, while his passion was to nurture life within his precious gardens, mine was to kick back with a good book. While his burden was to do things well, mine was to do them with the least effort possible. I’m sure I didn’t make much of an employee on those days I accompanied him to job sites. …
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The Lord bless you and keep you today. On sale this week at Westminster Books is an excellent series of Christian biographies for children. Seven Common Misconceptions about the King James Bible “When a book blossoms into such a literary lotus, myths also begin to sprout. Grains of truth rendering them plausible grow into weeds of fiction. Blocking the light of contrary facts and pilfering life-giving nuance, truth eventually withers. The following are seven myths about the KJB that now need …
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May the God of love and peace be with you today. (Yesterday on the blog: None of Us Will Ever Forget What You Did) Important Contexts for Understanding Reformed Theology Keith Mathison reminds us that context matters in history and theology as much as in Bible study. “Reformed theology was a fruit of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, and that Reformation took place in a particular historical and cultural context. The authors writing at the time wrote within a particular philosophical …
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Today’s post is written by Sean McGever and is sponsored by Zondervan. Sean is the author of The Good News of Our Limits. You may believe in a false gospel and not even know it. Worse yet, this message may have come from your favorite Christian books, sermons, and Bible studies. False gospels are nothing new; they are as old as the good news itself. I wonder, have you believed in the false gospel of omni-productivity? Purveyors of this news sell …
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