A La Carte (4/1)

The Kindle version of The Next Story has fallen to $5.99. So get it while the getting is good. Just over a week from now the price will climb back to $9.99. And I’m pretty sure it’s not going to go any lower than $5.99.

2011 NatCon Messages - The messages from Ligonier’s recent National Conference are now available to watch online (or in some cases to download).

$5 Friday - Speaking of Ligonier, they’ve got a couple of excellent deals in today’s edition of $5 Friday.

The History of Printing - An interesting infographic.

The Dump-Truck of Merit - I appreciated this post: “There is little doubt that we have all experienced the following circumstance and reaction. Someone comes to let you know about something that you have said or done that is wrong. Whether it was ignorant or blatant, the bottom line is the consequence. The other individual is offended, hurt, or aware of something that you did that needs to be addressed.”

Good Friday in Toronto - My church will be joining with 4 others on Good Friday. Here are details if you happen to be in Toronto at the time.

The Little Stuff - “Warming up your day by knocking off a bunch of quick, easy tasks is tempting, but it can provide you with a false sense of accomplishment. The danger in this approach is that the bulk of your energy gets depleted over a bunch of insignificant tasks.”

Failure of Moral Effort - Z shares a story that Keller borrows and updates from Charles Spurgeon. Did you get all that? Just read it.

The Three R’s - Bob Kauflin explaines why we sing.

Smartest - This is good:

Smartest

Though Christ died to take away the curse from us, yet not to take away the cross from us. —Thomas Watson

Comments (7)

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Anonymous's picture

The next story seems to actually be priced at $6.39 for Australian users. Strange

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Anonymous's picture

Hi, Tim, thanks for featuring our Press Facts infographic.

If you’re interesetd, the original post is here:

http://visualoop.tumblr.com/post/3699453995/press-facts-our-first-infogr…

Keep up the great work!

@TSSVeloso / @visualoop

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Anonymous's picture

Ligonier $5 Friday is a budget buster!

I had never heard of David Hagiopan’s “Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Richness of the Reformed Faith” (1996) and thought it might be simply a clearance sale, but the reviews on Amazon seemed to agree that it might be one of the best books available on what it’s trying to accomplish. And I also ordered Sinclair Ferguson’s “By Grace Alone”. I love his writing style.

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Anonymous's picture

I’m in Canada, and the price of The Next Story is $6.39 as well. Actually, it’s been priced at $6.39 for a few weeks now, even when the price was (apparently) set at $7.99. Obviously I didn’t worry about the price so much then as now! Now that it is higher than the actual price, I would like it fixed.

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Anonymous's picture

Maybe the $5.99 is an April fool’s joke?

j/k

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Anonymous's picture

Thanks for the link to “The Three R’s”.

It is so discouraging for many of us these days who love to sing at Sunday morning worship, but can’t.

More and more, Sunday morning worship music is being dominated by new songs that most of the congregation has never heard before and people just don’t know. Without sheet music of some sort to guide the congregation (usually just lyrics are given), they are practically impossible to sing, and, as a result, hearty congregational singing is becoming quite rare in many circles.

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Anonymous's picture

Tim, could you use your technological influence on Ligonier to get them to fix the audio/video splits on the conference clips? Maybe it’s my computer (though I’m not experiencing problems on other sites/videos) but all of the conference video I’ve clicked on so far is not in bad quality (sounds good, looks good) but the audio is off by 1-3 seconds.