Author: Tim Challies

A La Carte (August 31)

A La Carte (August 31)

Posted by | Aug 31, 2020 | |

Westminster Books has discounted many of this summer’s new releases. There are some odds and ends listed in today’s Kindle deals. (Yesterday on the blog: Keep in Mercy’s Way) The Song That Was Sharper Than Sting What a sweet bit of writing this is. “Samwise had climbed too many stairs with Shagrat drooling on his heels. He’d blasted through Cirith Ungol’s gates with Galadriel’s light. He’d searched every black corner for Frodo, and now, his master was a tower trapdoor …

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Keep in Mercy’s Way

Keep in Mercy’s Way

Posted by | Aug 30, 2020 | |

As we prepare to join in corporate worship today, we would do well to consider what God accomplishes through such precious means of grace. Here is Spurgeon, in his early days, calling us to let sermons and prayers be our delight. Let sermons and prayers be thy delight, because they are roads wherein the Saviour walketh. Let the righteous be thy constant company, for such ever bring Him where they come. It is the least thing thou canst do to …

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Weekend A La Carte (August 29)

Weekend A La Carte (August 29)

Posted by | Aug 29, 2020 | |

I’m grateful to Matthias Media for sponsoring the blog this week. Be sure to check out their neat new resource The Generosity Project. Today’s Kindle deals offers a pretty good list of newer and older books. (Yesterday on the blog: When Solomon’s Fool Created a Social Media Platform) Sticktoitiveness and the Christian Life “Sticktoitiveness is not something we value today. We are a nation of quitters. We quit jobs, quit towns, quit wives and children, and quit churches at an …

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When Solomon’s Fool Created a Social Media Platform

When Solomon’s Fool Created a Social Media Platform

Posted by | Aug 28, 2020 | |

The fool of the book of Proverbs is a vivid illustration of practical atheism, for this foolish man lives as if there is no God and as if God isn’t concerned about human behavior. The fool may not actually deny the existence of the divine, but he practically denies it by choosing to live according to his own way rather than God’s. Though wisdom is available, personified in the form of a woman who cries aloud and begs everyone to …

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A La Carte (August 28)

A La Carte (August 28)

Posted by | Aug 28, 2020 | |

At long last the second of my two two-week quarantines is over and normal life can resume! I don’t plan to travel internationally again anytime soon and this is exactly why! I thought I should remind Logos users that they’ve still got time to get 30% off any single order, no matter how big it is. (Yesterday on the blog: A Dozen New and Notable Christian Books for August 2020) Be Quiet: Cultivating a Gentle Spirit in a World that …

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