May the God of love and peace be with you today. There are, as usual, a few Kindle deals for those who are interested. (Yesterday on the blog: Extending the Borders and Enlarging the Territory) Cultivating a Gracious Climate in Your Church “A message of grace may attract people, but a culture of grace will keep them. What our churches need, not in exchange for a gospel message but as a witness to it, is a gospeled climate. But how do you get …
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This article is written by Andrew M. Davis and is sponsored by Baker Books. In his new book, The Glory Now Revealed, Andrew paints a dynamic, scripturally-based picture of heaven as a place where we continually discover new aspects of God’s glory displayed in his past works throughout the history of the world. Who can fully appraise the treasures of God’s glory woven into even a single day of history? We all underestimate the value of those treasures! The Bible …
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The Israelites had sojourned in the wilderness until the last of an entire rebellious generation had died and been buried. They had walked to the banks of the Jordan and had seen its waters part before them. They had crossed the river and entered the Promised Land. And now the true work and the true challenge would begin. Though God had promised that this people would inherit this land, and though he had promised that it would be their possession, …
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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. There are some good Kindle deals today, including a new biography about the Spurgeons. (Yesterday on the blog: God’s Pop-Up Book) Deadly children’s games I expect you’ve been hearing about Netflix’s hit series Squid Game. This review from WORLD tells what it’s all about. A Cultural Moment for Revival? “While our culture continues to slip into chaotic depravity, more and more people are voicing their fears …
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With a group of friends, I am reading Sinclair Ferguson’s Devoted To God, a book about holiness and the ways in which God instructs us to be holy even as he is holy. In this week’s reading I found a helpful illustration of the Old Testament rites and ceremonies and thought you might benefit from it as I did. Ferguson describes them as acting like pop-up picture books… The Lord unfolded it at first through liturgical rites and ceremonies prescribed …
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