A La Carte (9/4)

  • Tim Challies
  • 09/04/09
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Morning and Evening Podcast
ChristianAudio offers a podcast of Charles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening [twice] daily devotional.
Phil Wickham Online
ConversantLife is streaming a concert tonight featuring Phil Wickham. “Phil will be playing acoustic versions of songs from his forthcoming record, Heaven & Earth, explaining the unique stories behind each of them and how they weave together in his fast-approaching new release.”
Reel Discernment
From Focus on the Family: “We’re excited to announce the premiere of our new movie review for young adults called Reel Discernment featuring Plugged In’s Bob Waliszewski and Cheryl Wilhelmi. Each week Bob and Cheryl will give us a quick look into what we can expect from the new releases.” The first episode is very well done and I look forward to making this a weekly stop!
Deal of the Day: Fab Fridays
CBD has some good deals in this week’s Fab Friday. They’ve got John MacArthur’s From Ordinary to Extraordinary: A Yearlong Devotional to Discover What God Wants to Do with You as well as The Truth War for just $3.99. They also have the hardcover ESV Study Bible on at $24.99.

Comments (8)

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a comment from Ken Davis • 09/04 @ 10:15am

“the Ingluorious “B” word” ?? Sounds like they couldn’t review a Driscoll sermon.

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a comment from Cap Stewart • 09/04 @ 10:20am

Thanks for the laugh, Kevin!

Indeed, the production values of this first episode of “Reel Discernment” are quite good. Unfortunately, that’s the only nice thing I can say about the program. With all due respect to Focus on the Family, the only thing “Plugged in Movie Reviews” (and now “Reel Discernment,” it appears) is good for is finding out if a film has any questionable content. Actually, in all honesty, www.screenit.com is an even better resource for that. When I want to read a movie review that is genuinely informed by the Christian faith (and not just a “Christianized” sense of moralism) I prefer the insightful reviews of Steven D. Greydanus at www.decentfilms.com

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a comment from Cap Stewart • 09/04 @ 10:36am

And I should have spell-checked before posting. Sorry, Ken (i.e., not Kevin)!

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a comment from David Kjos • 09/04 @ 10:59am
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Fab Friday: Tim, you forgot to mention Wild at Heart, $7.99.

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a comment from Dr. Ransom (E. Stephen Burnett) • 09/04 @ 11:49am
› visit my web site.

Maybe Tim didn’t want to mention it. I would contend there are much better resources for discovering doctrines of Biblical manhood and working them out in everyday life.

While Eldredge has some good things to say about the problems men face in Christianity and culture, several wrong-minded solutions mar the book: overemphasis on external “manliness,” nearsighted focus on blaming a “wound” from someone else (instead of pointing to personal sin as the main issue, with all others’ wounds secondary), and especially the contention that God takes “risks” just like His creatures.

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a comment from David Kjos • 09/04 @ 1:37pm
› visit my web site.

Dr. Ransom,Sorry, I was joking. Tim knows my perverse humor, if no one else does.

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a comment from Dr. Ransom (E. Stephen Burnett) • 09/04 @ 2:19pm
› visit my web site.

Ah! Well, I’m sorry you had to spoil the joke for an apparent newbie such as I. And normally I do get satire very well; I just missed it in this case. …

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a comment from David Kjos • 09/04 @ 8:51pm
› visit my web site.

No problem. As my wife would say, I’m not as funny as I think I am.