Today’s Kindle deals include a massive list of deals. If you’ve got a Kindle, today’s a good day… (Yesterday on the blog: No Hope Without Christ’s Righteousness) Sanctorum Communionem “As I stood there in that big echoey room, I sighed and considered all that has not gone on in there since March. ‘I believe the communion of the saints.’ Those old ancient words. Credo… sanctorum communionem. I walked over to the wall and noticed the calendars had also not been …
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The book Piercing Heaven shares some wonderful prayers from the Puritans. This is one of the first and, to my mind, one of the best prayers in the collection. Lord, I would be the most miserable person in the world if my hopes were only in this life. Why? Because I am hopeless without Christ’s righteousness. My life could never be comfortable, and there would be no hope at all of eternal life. If you denied me that hope, I …
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My thanks goes to The Good Book Company for sponsoring the blog this week. It is corporate sponsors and personal patrons who make this site possible and I’m thankful for each one. Today’s Kindle deals include a collection of newer and older books. (Yesterday on the blog: I Fear God, and I’m Afraid of God) The Gentle Tug of Spiritual Disciplines “I sometimes wish that my spiritual disciplines pestered me the way that Toby [the dog] does. Those wonderful disciplines …
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This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by The Good Book Company who also sponsored the blog this week. They have 5 packages of their upcoming January releases to give away, which means 5 winners will each receive the following titles: The God Contest: The True Story of Elijah, Jesus, and the Greatest Victory by Carl Laferton and Catalina Echeverri Kids today are faced with a huge range of different views on who God is (or isn’t). How can …
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Not only that, but the fear of the Lord is the beginning of the Christian life. The Bible makes it clear that to love God, to honor God, to obey God, we must fear God. But “fear” is a word with many dimensions, many definitions. In what ways are we to fear God? Much of what I know about fearing God I learned from R.C. Sproul. Looking back to Luther, …
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