Good morning. As you begin the day, you may do well to briefly consider this truth: “God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.” Today doesn’t have the greatest selection of Kindle deals we’ve ever seen, but there are still some good picks there. Keep Moving Forward This is a simple reminder, but an important one. Ready to Party “I’ve watched friends hold onto life with a white-knuckled grip, desperate for healing to come here on earth, …
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Grace and peace to you today. Today’s Kindle deals include The Christian’s Only Comfort in Life and Death which has a list price of $70. There are quite a lot of others as well. (Yesterday on the blog: Don’t Drop the Rock!) Reevaluating Your Church’s Values I agree with Jared Wilson. “I am convinced that too many evangelical churches in the United States are overly fixated on bigness, excitement, and individualistic improvement, and that we don’t often realize it because …
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It happens often—too often—in the Christian world. Another celebrity preacher, celebrity author, celebrity speaker, is exposed as a hypocrite, as one who takes advantage of position and prominence to pursue not heavenly rewards, but fleshly lusts, fading treasures, or fleeting power. When yet another one is exposed, it is like a huge boulder is dropped into an otherwise still pond. There is a great splash, a great disturbance, a great series of ripples that flow outward, until the whole body …
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Good morning. The Lord be with you today! There is a long and eclectic list of Kindle deals for the collectors to peruse. (Yesterday on the blog: For the Christian Who Is Afraid To Die) An Unhealthy Craving “In 1 Timothy 6:3-5, the Apostle Paul is addressing the character and manipulation of false teachers. In context, Paul is stating that false teachers have an unhealthy craving for controversy. This is, of course, undoubtedly true. However, this principle applies to all …
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There is little we can know scientifically about what happens after we die. There are no experiments we can carry out that offer conclusive evidence of what happens when the eyes close for the final time, when the heart at last stops beating. We know, of course, that the body will immediately begin to decline and decay, but what of the consciousness, what of the soul, what of that part of a person that makes him what he most truly …
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