A La Carte (12/20)

I’ve been collecting Kindle book deals over the past couple of days and have a lot of them for you. John MacArthur’s Readings From the Life of Christ Volume 2 [2] and Volume 3 [3] are $1.99. You can also get some deals on Moody’s Classic series; they’re all down to $0.99: All of Grace [4] by Charles Spurgeon; The True Vine [5] by Andrew Murray; How to Pray [6] by R.A. Torrey; Augustine’s Confessions [7]. C.S. Lewis’ space trilogy is also down to $1.99 per volume: Out of the Silent Planet [8], Perelandra [9], and That Hideous Strength [10].

The Media and the Massacre [11] - Andy Crouch: “All that any of us who do not live in Newtown, Connecticut, truly needed to know--possibly more than we needed to know--appeared in a 12-word news alert on my phone Friday afternoon. Almost everything else, I believe, was a distraction from the only thing that we who are not first responders, pastors, or parents in that community needed to do at that moment: to pray, which is to say, to put ourselves at the mercy of God and hold those who harmed and those who were harmed before the mercy of God.”

Wheaton’s Victory [12] - “A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. issued a partial but significant victory to Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College in their lawsuit against the Obama administration’s contraception and abortion pill mandate.”

Mount Everest [13] - You must have seen thousands of photographs of Everest. But there have been none like this one.

Clarifying Words on Wife Abuse [14] - Several years ago, in an online Q&A, John Piper was asked about a wife’s submission in the face of a husband’s abuse. He revisited that question yesterday and offered some clarifications.

Books on the Most Best-Of Lists [15] - This site went through a whole lot of “best books of 2012” lists and found the ones that appeared on the greatest number of those lists.

I Like Adoption [16] - Be sure to watch this amazing little film.

Suffering is God's surgery that leads to health when we respond by faith. —Ed Welch