Happy birthday, my boy! You’re 21 today! Or you would be. Do you celebrate birthdays in heaven? Do you even mark days, months, and years? I confess, I have only just begun to realize how little I know about the place you have gone to be. I’ve got many questions, but few answers. Then again, I could only get credible answers through the Bible and it seems to be far less concerned with describing lives in heaven than directing lives …
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Good morning! Grace to you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a few interesting titles. The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking “Positive thinking says if you just dig deep enough in yourself, you will find strength to conquer anything. The gospel says when you have no strength left, God will sustain you. Positive thinking looks to goodness in creation to solve immediate problems. The gospel looks to the Creator to solve eternal problems. Positive thinking holds up in everyday struggles, but in …
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The God of peace be with you all today. Today’s Kindle deals are all about Kevin DeYoung books. On sale this week at Westminster Books is John Piper’s huge new work, his magnum opus perhaps, Providence. (Yesterday on the blog: New and Notable Books (Belated) for February 2021) Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracism Can’t Heal Us This is a good look at a popular book. “Kendi writes of our underlying and shared humanity beneath the construct of race. Yes and amen. …
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The time has come for another roundup of some of the new and notable books that have come my way in the past month. Unfortunately I dawdled just a little so this has fallen from the last days of February to the first days of March. Regardless, here are some of the books that caught my attention in February. For each of them I have included the publisher’s description. Both–And: Understanding Apparent Contradictions in Christianity by Ross Cunningham. “One of …
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Good morning! Grace and peace to you today. 10 Things You Should Know about R. C. Sproul I loved this list of 10 things you should know about R.C. Sproul. The Counsel and Care of the Elderly “Society feeds the pride of young men and women by telling them that they can change the world–regardless of God-given giftings, intellect, upbringing, associations, providential encounters, guidance, or hard work. Society tells us that the elderly are a burden to progress. While there …
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