Author: Tim Challies

8 Ways Temptation Actually Works for Our Good

8 Ways Temptation Actually Works for Our Good

Posted by | Apr 28, 2020 | |

Temptation is a universal experience. If Jesus himself did not escape it, we can be certain that we will not either. It can be difficult to see any good in temptation, yet we know that God has promised to work all things for our good—even temptation. Thomas Watson addresses this in his book All Things for Good, and offers nine ways that temptation works for our good. Temptation works for good when it sends the soul to prayer. Quite simply, …

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A La Carte (April 28)

A La Carte (April 28)

Posted by | Apr 28, 2020 | |

Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of new books, plus some that were on the list last week but have since dropped in price. (Yesterday on the blog: The Right Response to the Old Testament Law) Higher Education and the COVID-19 Crisis Al Mohler has penned a long article about the challenges to higher education. Whether his view is realistic or pessimistic remains to be seen. “The coronavirus just collapsed a decade of institutional strategy and planning to a matter …

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Are You Welcoming Image Bearers With Special Needs?

Are You Welcoming Image Bearers With Special Needs?

Posted by | Apr 27, 2020 | |

Today’s post is sponsored by The Elisha Foundation, a ministry focused on the pursuit of Christ-centered transformation in the lives of those experiencing disability. They invite you and your church to take free, video-based training on serving people and families impacted by disability.  On a recent Sunday morning, I forgot my glasses in the car and realized it just as church was starting. Hurriedly, I stepped out of the church entrance only to be startled by the sound of a …

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The Right Response to the Old Testament Law

The Right Response to the Old Testament Law

Posted by | Apr 27, 2020 | |

The greater our distance from another culture, the stranger that culture seems. This may be true geographically, but we observe it most commonly when the distance is chronological. The laws and customs of ancient civilizations often strike us as bizarre or unfair. There’s no doubt that sometimes they were. But if we assume that people then, just like people now, were rational beings, we can at least suppose that each law and each custom was arrived at deliberately and was …

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A La Carte (April 27)

A La Carte (April 27)

Posted by | Apr 27, 2020 | |

We were treated to a couple of neat music videos this weekend. CityAlight debuted a new song called “Your Will Be Done” while Grace Worship released a fun version of their adaptation of Psalm 73. There are, as you’d expect, some new Kindle deals for you to take a look at. The Bigamist’s Daughter This is a long and sad but interesting autobiographical article that grapples with the consequences of fatherlessness. It begins like this: “In 1964, when my mother …

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