Today’s Kindle deals include a pretty good selection of books that cross a bunch of different categories. A Timeshare in Babylon This matters. “Sexual sin is not a merely ‘personal sin’, a kind of foible of our personality, a misfiring of our biology, but it is a declaration of allegiance, it is the purchase of a timeshare in Babylon. As Christians, when we sin sexually, we are handing in our heavenly passport to the offices of a hostile embassy, we …
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There’s a nice little collection of Kindle deals to browse through today. (Yesterday on the blog: How Is God Present in Our Pain?) Dads, Your Children Need Both Quality and Quantity Time with You Randy Alcorn challenges dads to focus on both quality and quantity time with their kids. The Long Obedience This is a sweet one from Susan Lafferty. How Do I Respond to Sexual Dreams? I’m including this one largely because, of the thousands of submissions to Ask …
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Today’s post features Pastor Colin S. Smith talking about openthebible.org, a free website that can help you share the God of the Bible with others. It is sponsored by Unlocking the Bible. Sometimes a single conversation can have a profound influence on your entire life and ministry. That was true for me when I met a missionary by the name of Tony Howarth more than 30 years ago. Tony served with New Tribes Mission and dedicated his life to an …
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In our pain we know God is not absent, but in our pain we also wonder whether God is present. Or perhaps more correctly we wonder how God is present. In times of great grief or dark uncertainty we cling to the reality that God is a loving Father who has welcomed us into his family—we are his beloved children. We dwell on the promise that he will never leave nor forsake the ones he loves—he will preserve us to …
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I wasn’t able to track down new Kindle deals today, but perhaps you should run over last week’s deals. In case you missed it over the weekend, this month’s free book from Christian Audio is Tony Reinke’s Competing Spectacles. It’s there for the taking! (Yesterday on the blog: He Will Hold Me Fast) Forgetting What Is Behind? In what circumstances is it good to ponder the past? And in what circumstances is it not? A Statement from Early Rain Covenant …
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