Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of excellent books by Derek Cooper that will help you understand other religions (and cults). You’ll find some other good picks as well.

Westminster Books is offering a good discount on Tim Keller’s posthumous book What Is Wrong with the World?.

(Yesterday on the blog: When It Feels Like the Temptation Is Coming From Outside)

A Significant Action for a Ministry to Move From Addition to Multiplication

Here’s a neat little observation about the way the early church went from addition to multiplication.

The Post-Literate Pastor

“Johann Hari recently described his screen-addled godson as ‘whirring at the speed of Snapchat, somewhere where nothing still or serious could reach him.’ If that description starts to characterize the up-and-coming generation of pastors, the future is grim. I want my generation’s pastors to succeed. But I believe that will require them to be better readers and learners. So if you’re a seminary professor or a mentor of aspiring pastors, train them to be rigorous readers and don’t bless their entrance into ministry until they’ve proven an aptitude for reading.”

10 Things to Pray for Children Who Have Walked Away From Jesus

Parents who are laboring in prayer for children


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