The Lord be with you and the Lord bless you today. The Logos March Matchups voting has come to an end. The excellent Zondervan Exegetical series has triumphed, which means it’s 60% off. You can now get that deal and several others. There are a couple of interesting Kindle deals today. I’ll check again in the morning. (Yesterday on the blog: How Long Is the Dash?) Many Out of One? Carl Trueman reflects on Columbia University’s decision to host multicultural …
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This week’s blog is sponsored by Reformation Heritage Books and written by Simonetta Carr—who encourages you to keep asking questions. Be sure to take a look at her new book Questions Women Asked. Unending Questions Kids ask a lot of questions. According to a 2013 British study by Littlewoods.com, girls do so more than boys, asking as many as 390 questions per day based on a thousand participants. Eighty-two percent of these questions are addressed to mothers. A quarter of …
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Nick’s gravestone has finally been installed, and I have come to see it for the very first time. I have been looking forward to this day and dreading this day in equal measure. For months I have had to visit an unmarked grave, a patch of bare earth with no way to identify the name of the precious person who lies beneath it. Surely my son deserves so much better. Yet now that it comes to it, I also hate …
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Good morning! May the Lord bless you today and in the week to come. My family has completed our 14-day in-home quarantine after returning from our trip to visit Abby. We’re hoping the rules change before she returns from school in May or we’ll have to do it all again! (Yesterday on the blog: Thy Way Is Best) Do You Have Enough Faith to Be Kind? “Jesus rebuked those who had ‘little faith’ (Matt. 8:26), rewarded those who had ‘great …
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I have mentioned in the past that I have been exploring some of the Christian poetry of the nineteenth century—an era in which poetry was a prime devotional genre for the church. I was recently making my way through Christopher Newman Hall’s Pilgrim Songs in Cloud and Sunshine, and was taken by a number of works, including this one, titled “Thy Way Is Best.” I thought you might enjoy reading it as well, for it is a simple but moving …
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