Author: Tim Challies

Weekend A La Carte (January 23)

The God of love and peace be with you as you serve and worship him this weekend. My gratitude goes to AGTV for sponsoring the blog this week with news of their excellent video streaming service. Today’s Kindle deals include some classics and some more contemporary works. (Yesterday on the blog: New and Notable Books and Commentaries for January 2021) Dignity Beyond Accomplishment “On Christmas Day 1999, when she was six years old, my little sister Jenna swallowed a whole …

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New and Notable Books and Commentaries for January 2021

With a new year comes lots of new books. And it’s not just new books but new commentaries as well. Lots of them have landed on my doorstep in the past few weeks and here are my picks for the new and notable books and commentaries from January 2021. In each case I’ve included the publisher’s description, just to give you a taste of what it’s about. Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord …

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A La Carte (January 22)

Grace and peace to you today, my friends. The Cure for the Prophetic Pandemic This blogger is extremely concerned about some recent failed prophecies. “I say that this is a prophetic reckoning because literally dozens of prophetic words surrounding this historical moment were recorded and made available to the masses for spiritual consumption. It was a prophetic pandemic, and it has sickened the church. There is no shortage of these proclamations, and none of them were correct. None.” How Would …

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A La Carte (January 21)

Grace and peace to you this morning! Westminster Books is having a special on a new book (or, really, pair of books) by Michael Reeves. Today’s Kindle deals are highlighted by several books from Crossway on the subject of justification. (Yesterday on the blog: We Prophesy Grief, Not Grace) The Blessing of Weariness “I like to pair seemingly contradictory words to reveal how these words do not contradict one another, but complement one another.” David Qaoud explains why he pairs …

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We Prophesy Grief, Not Grace

If this pandemic has taught us anything, surely it’s taught us that we are lousy prognosticators. The best of our politicians, the best of our scientists, the best of our statisticians, could not, between them, do much of anything to predict how far the virus would spread, how quickly it would move, how many lives it would claim. The greatest optimists and greatest pessimists alike were often shown to be wrong not just by small degrees, but by whole orders …

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