It sure was a joy to worship as a church yesterday, albeit as a much-reduced one for the time being. Masks and distancing and other measures were a small price to pay to join together once again… Today’s Kindle deals include a great commentary by John Stott as well as a couple of books by Jerry Bridges. Christian’s Aren’t Allowed To Cancel Anyone Anne Kennedy: “Christians, in other words, aren’t in the business of cancelling each other. My children keep …
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A recent book titled Piercing Heaven shares favorite prayers from the Puritans. Many of them are amazing prayers. As an example, here is Philip Doddridge praying the sin of a convicted sinner. Injured King and almighty Judge, what can I say to the charges against me? Should I pretend to be offended, and defend myself? I do not dare. You know my foolishness. None of my sins is hidden from you. My conscience tells me that denying my crimes would only …
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My gratitude goes to Reformation Heritage Books for sponsoring the blog this week. The Works of William Perkins is quite a set and presents a worthy challenge! Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of good picks for younger folk along with some classics. (Yesterday on the blog: The Gathering Storm) A Compassionate, Counter-Cultural, Christian Response Kevin Huang draws out some good “balancing principles” in this article. “In conversations about race, too often we treat disagreement as evil, and we attribute …
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This week the blog has been sponsored by Reformation Heritage Books. They are giving away five sets of the following books: Thriving in Grace “If there is a better short book on the strength and orderliness of the Puritans’ teaching on the lifestyle of the Christian, I have not yet read it. Thriving in Grace is the spiritual equivalent of what a taster meal in a Michelin-starred restaurant must be like: the work of a skilled chef who has a …
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If you know much of anything about Albert Mohler, you’ll probably be quick to understand the title of his new book, The Gathering Storm. Mohler is a lifelong student of Winston Churchill and has borrowed the title from the first volume of Churchill’s massive work on the Second World War. However, he hasn’t merely borrowed the title, but also the central argument: “the first task of faithfulness lies in understanding reality. Understanding the storm and seeing it for what it …
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