Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I dug up just a couple of Kindle deals; I’ll check again first thing to see if I can find some more. The Long View “I wore braces as a kid. My upper teeth benefited: they run a reasonably straight line, with equal spacing. My lower teeth didn’t: they run a jagged line, angling for space. Like my son, I pressed to get my braces off …
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Good morning! Grace be with you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of books that may be of special interest to those who are academically-inclined. (Yesterday on the blog: A February Family Update) If I Were Starting A Denomination From Scratch Paul Carter has some ideas about how he’d begin a new denomination. I agree with a lot of the points he makes here. Preach The Difficult Sermon This is, indeed, a temptation for pastors. “We know what our …
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Here in my home province of Ontario we have been under stay-at-home orders for the past month. It’s a relatively soft version of a stay-at-home mandate, and certainly doesn’t compare to an Italian equivalent from early in the pandemic or an Australian “emergency brake” equivalent today, but it’s still enough to keep us from venturing too far from home or from interacting much with others. Thankfully the orders are slowly being lifted in different regions and that includes ours as …
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Good morning! Grace be with you today. Those who live in Europe may want to know that I’m going to try to schedule the daily A La Carte posts for around 6 AM London time. That may let you read them a bit earlier in the day. There’s a pretty good little selection of Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: When Jesus Brags About You) Uprooting Evil in the Fields We Know “We are too finite, too small to …
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Jesus promises that “everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven.” As I continue my dabbling in nineteenth century devotional writers, I came across a neat passage from Charles Ebert Orr in which he imagines how Jesus may do that very thing. I share it in the hope you’ll find it encouraging. Jesus will gather his holy angels before him and address them thus: “Do you behold Brother—? He is a …
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