We have just about arrived at the end of another year—a year in which I did quite a lot of reading across a variety of subjects. Today I want to offer my picks for the top 10 books of 2020. I have put them in some semblance of order with my first pick at the top and the rest in roughly descending order. In each case I’ve included a short description drawn from my full-length review. I guess you’ll see …
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It was a year ago today that my father unexpectedly went to be with the Lord—the start of what has been the most difficult 12-month period we’ve known. Yet through it we’ve experienced so much of the Lord’s kindness—so many of his blessings. And it’s somehow comforting to know that my dad was waiting in heaven when my Nick arrived… There are lots of Kindle deals to look at today, including a bunch for those who are more academically inclined. …
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I haven’t been able to dig up any noteworthy Kindle deals after yesterday’s huge list. I’ll keep looking… (Yesterday on the blog: Goodnight Till Then) Why Doesn’t God Make His Existence More Obvious? Have you asked (or been asked) this question before? “It is a common objection to the existence of God: why doesn’t he make himself more obvious? And, of course, if God was inclined he could spell out ‘God exists’ using stars to make himself known if he …
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This post is written by Thaddeus J. Williams, author of Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth, and is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Combining the word “social” with the word “justice” is a bit like mixing Mentos with soda. It is highly explosive, especially when we don’t bother to define our terms. Some use “social justice” to describe what our ancient brothers and sisters did to rescue and adopt precious little image-bearers who had been discarded like trash at the literal human …
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“Mr. Challies, we want you to know that we have received Nick into our care. Rest assured that he is in the very best of hands.” The message comes as a relief, for it means that Nick’s long, last, lonely journey is complete. Even if he can’t come home, he has at least arrived back in his own country, back in his own town. It is not as we hoped. It is not as we imagined. But it is as …
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