Author: Tim Challies

A La Carte (January 20)

Today’s Kindle deals include a diverse collection of books. (Yesterday on the blog: How We Worshipped One Sunday in January) 10 Ways Porn Culture Will Target Your Kids in 2020 You’ve just got to be aware of all that ways porn culture targets your kids. “So let’s get to know the enemy so we can gear up for those battles! Here are TEN things to look out for this year as you raise kids in a hypersexualized porn culture AND …

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How We Worshipped One Sunday in January

From time to time I like to share one of our worship services from Grace Fellowship Church. In that vein, here is how we worshiped on one January Sunday morning. This week’s cast of characters included Steve as service leader, Paul as preacher, and Allie as music leader. Dwight read the Scripture text and led the pastoral prayer. The band was composed of a piano, and electric guitar, and two female vocalists. Welcome and Call to Worship (Steve) Steve welcomed …

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Weekend A La Carte (January 18)

Today’s Kindle deals include some newer books and some older ones; there are some good picks! Westminster Books has a sale on R.C. Sproul’s excellent commentary on the Westminster Confession (which has been newly reprinted). You may also be interested in the ESV Creeds & Confessions Bible. (Yesterday on the blog: The Gospel According to Satan) Every Place Is the Same Now What an interesting reflection on our new technologies. “Until the 20th century, one had to leave the house …

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Free Stuff Fridays (Crossway)

This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by Crossway, who also sponsored the blog this week. They are giving away a brand new book that I think will be of a lot of interest to you: Created to Draw Near: Our Life as God’s Royal Priests by Edward T. Welch. There will be five winners this week and each will receive a copy of the book. Here is how Crossway describes it: “Human beings are wired for connection. We long …

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The Gospel According to Satan

Satan is many things. But one fact the Bible makes perfectly clear is that he is a liar. Already by the third chapter of the Bible he has been deceitful (taking a physical form that is not his), he has been deceptive (getting people to question whether God is as good as they had thought), and he has told outright lies (full-out contradicting the words of God). And that’s just in the first three chapters! If Satan is such a …

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