Author: Tim Challies

A La Carte (September 24)

Good morning. May the Lord bless and keep you today. Westminster Books has a couple of deals you should know about this week. The first is on the John Piper preaching bundle while the second is on a new children’s book. There’s a nice collection of reference works in today’s list of Kindle deals. Clinging to God and Grammar Carl Trueman: “In times past, progressive politicians described those they despised as clinging to ‘God and guns.’ I suspect that we are …

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A La Carte (September 23)

“Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’” (Yesterday on the blog: God Has Found You Faithful) Be Worthy of Your Gray Andrée Seu Peterson: “Scripture says men are held in bondage all their lives by fear of death (Hebrews 2:15). And women by fear of gray. The secret is that once confronted, the boogeyman is not so formidable after all.” When No One Is Watching: The Heart of …

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God Has Found You Faithful

The Parable of the Talents is one of the best-known and best-loved of all the parables Jesus left us. It tells of a man who is going on a journey and, who, before he sets out, distributes his wealth among his servants for safekeeping. To one he gives five talents, to another two, and to another just one. (A talent, for sake of context, is about 20 years’ of wages for a laborer.) It tells how each of these servants …

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A La Carte (September 22)

May the Lord bless and keep you today. Today’s Kindle deals include quite a number of solid books. Do Pronouns Matter? “Do pronouns matter? Yes. It’s not merely a battle over ‘preferred’ pronouns; it’s a battle over reality. What is a pronoun? It’s a word we use to describe the objective nature of reality.” Brett Kunkle explains. Note Taking in Worship This article explores the joys and challenges of taking notes in church. The Secrets of the World’s Most Famous …

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A La Carte (September 21)

May the God of love and peace be with you today. There are a few Kindle deals to take a glance at today. (Yesterday on the blog: It Has To Be Dark Before We Can See) Death on a Wednesday: John Shelby Spong and Norm McDonald Anne Kennedy draws an interesting comparison between two men who recently died. “Verily verily, the contrast between the thoughts and feelings of Norm McDonald during his life and those of John Spong is in itself a …

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