Author: Tim Challies

Free Stuff Fridays (Zondervan Reflective)

This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by Zondervan Reflective, who also sponsored the blog this week. They are giving away FIVE 3-packs of J. Warner Wallace’s NEWEST book Person of Interest so you can do a reading group with your family or friends. Here is more about the book: Can the truth about Jesus be uncovered—even without a body or a crime scene? Join cold-case detective and bestselling author J. Warner Wallace as he investigates Jesus using an innovative and …

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Responding Wisely to Domestic Abuse in Your Church

There is much that is expected of pastors and church leaders, much for which they have often been inadequately prepared. At various points most will find themselves having to respond to situations that involve domestic abuse. This could be a woman coming to them and pleading for protection from her husband, it could be an allegation coming from a third party who observed something alarming, it could be an abuser confessing sin and seeking reconciliation. Few people know how to …

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A La Carte (October 1)

As we begin a new month, it is as good a time as any to remember that right now, at this very moment, God is on his throne. On sale this week at Westminster Books is the amazing Puritan Paperback series. (Yesterday on the blog: 10 New and Notable Christian Books for September 2021) On Being a Normal Horse Daniel uses C.S. Lewis to help him reflect on normalcy. “I wonder if my issues with self-pity stem from that same thinking …

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10 New and Notable Christian Books for September 2021

As we head toward gift-giving season, publishers are turning up their presses and releasing quite a number of key books. Most of the noteworthy releases from September have already landed in my mailbox and, after looking through them, I have narrowed my list of new and notables to these 10. In each case I’ve included the editorial description. I hope there is something here that you’ll enjoy reading! The Right Kind of Confident: The Remarkable Grit of a God-Fearing Woman …

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A La Carte (September 30)

Grace and peace to you today. Today’s Kindle deals include some solid deals from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: The Tale of the Pig and the Sheep) Singing with the Saints Vern Poythress has begun a promising new series on singing with the saints. I Wasn’t Half-Dead Glenna Marshall: “When it comes to God’s miraculous work of saving people through faith in Jesus, I think we tend to believe that some people are harder to save than others—as though God …

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