Good morning and happy Monday. Grace to you today. (Yesterday on the blog: The Penitential Tear) It Was Finished Upon That Cross CityAlight released a beautiful new hymn over the weekend, just on time for Easter. I’m sure you’ll be blessed by it. “Death was once my great opponent / Fear once had a hold on me / But the Son who died to save us / Rose that we would be free indeed! / Free from every plan of …
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Few of us take the time to mine and appreciate the vast stores of poetry laid up by so many of our Christian forebears. Yet in centuries past poetry was the language of many a sorrowful and rejoicing believer. In the last several months I have been discovering some of treasures and particularly enjoying the work of the 19th-century American poet Hannah Flagg Gould. This work, “The Penitential Tear,” is representative of her spiritual meditations. Thou trembling, pure, and holy …
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Grace and peace to you this weekend in all your service and in all your worship. My gratitude goes to Baker Books for sponsoring the blog this week with “Do We Really Believe in Equality?” It is sponsors and patrons who keep this site going! Today’s Kindle deals include some classics and some of the lesser-known works of C.S. Lewis. (Yesterday on the blog: The Inadvertent Trailblazer) God’s Law Library Joel Belz makes some astute observations about the differences between …
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This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Baker Books . They are giving away three sets of the first two books in the new series from Summit Ministries, Perspectives. Perspectives brings together biblical experts who can walk alongside readers, exploring the most challenging issues of our day. This series will help you, your family, and your church to think biblically about every area of life. The sets include a copy of Challenging Conversations by Jason Jimenez and Why You Matter by Michael Sherrard. Challenging Conversations by …
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My favorite cities to explore are the ones that have come together organically rather than according to a plan. Where some city centers were built on a grid with each building aligned closely with the road beside it and each street meeting the others at a perfect 90-degree angle, I prefer the cities that arose without such careful design. These are the cities where the streets wind and turn, where roads meet and cross one another at quirky angles, where …
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