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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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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It is an okay day for Kindle deals with quite a few available options, several of them Puritan classics. Keeping Primary Attention on Life’s Main Focuses Vance Christie tells a story to bring out a valid point. The English Reformation: England’s First Brexit You’d need to know more about church history than I do to really evaluate this article. But I found the connections between Brexit and the English Reformation to be rather interesting. 10 Things You Should Know about the Priesthood …
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Today’s Kindle deals include a handful of books, including one good one by R.C. Sproul. (Yesterday on the blog: Get To Know Onthatile Children’s Ministries) Max Lucado’s Endorsement of Jen Hatmaker: What it Means and Why it Matters This is important: “It can be tempting to view any display of disunity as divisive. But we would do good to remember that the Bible places the blame for divisions on the ones bringing in the false doctrine, not on those who …
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My recent journey through Africa led me to Onthatile Children’s Ministries in Johannesburg, South Africa (the second time I’ve visited the ministry, which is pronounced OWN-ta-tee-lay). There are nearly 3 million orphans in South Africa and Onthatile exists to rescue those that have been abandoned, then to provide them a safe haven until they can be adopted into families. This brief video explains why the ministry exists and how you can get involved. Also please visit their web site at …
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