Good morning! Grace be with you today.

Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of books that may be of special interest to those who are academically-inclined.

(Yesterday on the blog: A February Family Update)

If I Were Starting A Denomination From Scratch

Paul Carter has some ideas about how he’d begin a new denomination. I agree with a lot of the points he makes here.

Preach The Difficult Sermon

This is, indeed, a temptation for pastors. “We know what our people want to hear, so we tickle their itching ears with sermons that appeal to their comfort. We preach sermons about the sins out there, we rant and rave about society or the news media or politicians who are leading us further into moral demise. Our people love to hear those sermons. But there is one glaring problem when we preach to people outside of our church. The people who need to hear the sermon are not there.”

Evaluating Our Responses to the Ravi Zacharias Scandal

Randy Alcorn spent some time evaluating some of the common responses to the Ravi Zacharias scandal and responds to them here. (While on the subject of Zacharias, David French wrote a


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