Author: Tim Challies

Weekend A La Carte (January 11)

Today’s Kindle deals include several excellent classics and a couple of newer works. (Yesterday on the blog: Piercing Heaven: A Prayer Book You’ll Actually Use) Humbly Coming Before Our Father “Although most people, even many professing Christians, believe that everyone is a child of God in a spiritual way, the word of God is undeniably clear that only those who are united to the Son by faith are the adopted children of God. These, and these alone, are those with …

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Piercing Heaven: A Prayer Book You’ll Actually Use

I once met a prominent Christian—a Reformed Baptist theologian, even—who admitted something to me that sounded almost scandalous: He doesn’t care for The Pilgrim’s Progress. He read it as a student, he re-read it as an adult, and it just didn’t do much for him. And with that in view, here’s a confession of my own: I don’t really care for The Valley of Vision, that collection of Puritan prayers collected by Arthur Bennett. There are undoubtedly a few jewels …

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A La Carte (January 10)

Westminster Books says Ed Welch’s Created to Draw Near is their small group book of the year. And they’ve got it on sale for now. Through Cruciform Press we’ve got some interesting new books: The definitive collection of John Piper’s missions-oriented sermons, drawn from his more than 35 years of ministry (Cruciform or Amazon). And Michael Kruger’s Cruciform Quick booklet, The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity (Cruciform or Amazon). Can Women Be Sent Out as Missionaries? Can women be sent …

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A La Carte (January 9)

Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of books on prayer. Also, The Good Book Company will give you a free copy of Tim Lane’s book Unstuck if you join their mailing list. (Yesterday on the blog: Have You Read a Book Yet This Year?) Is Francis Chan Right about the Lord’s Supper? Francis Chan recently made some not-so-helpful comments about the Lord’s Supper. Wyatt Graham provides some kind interaction. (See also Nick Batzig’s Communing with Christ in the Supper.) A …

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Have You Read a Book Yet This Year?

We are a week into the new year. We are already a week into the new year. While not all of us took the time to set ambitious goals and resolutions as we passed from December into January, I think most of us at least saw it as a kind of fresh start. A new year presents an ideal opportunity to address some bad habits, to interrupt some apathy, to start something fresh. And with all that in mind, I …

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