There is not an extensive list of Kindle deals today, but there are still a few interesting ones, including Tremper Longman’s highly-recommended introduction to Proverbs.
(Yesterday on the blog: Biblical Building-Blocks for Sexual Purity)
When the Church Apologizes for Its Beliefs
Trevin Wax is concerned about the way Christians speak of their beliefs when it comes to morality. “In recent years, it’s become commonplace to see Christian leaders take an apologetic stand on a controversial issue. Not apologetic in the ‘defend the faith’ sense of the word, but ‘apologetic’ as if to say, I wish this was different, but here’s what we believe. Usually, this fretful posture comes from a deeper desire to appear respectable to society.”
The Advance of the New Legalism
Stephen Kneale is concerned about a new form of legalism that may be creeping into the church. “The new buzzwords are things like ‘missional living’, ‘community’ and ‘doing life together.’ Now all those things are rightly rooted in biblical principles. … The principles in which these things are rooted are thoroughly biblical. But the problem comes when those principles are pressed into rules that the bible simply doesn’t demand. It becomes a problem when we insist our
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