How can I know how the Holy Spirit has gifted me? This is the second part in what I anticipate will be a brief three-part series examining the spiritual gift of discernment. The first part is available here: The Gift of Spiritual Discernment. In this first article we looked at the question of “What is…
Friday August 31, 2007 Mother Teresa’s RedemptionRick Phillips has written a great article about Mother Teresa and the meaning behind the revelations of her crisis of faith. It’s a must read! Interview with Steve LawsonI just stumbled upon this–John Hendryx of Monergism interviewing Steve Lawson. Sale at WTS BooksWestminster Books is having a sale on…
The Introduction to J.C. Ryle’s Holiness This is the first of what I hope will be many opportunities to read the classics together. You can read more about this effort here: Reading the Classics Together. Today we start into an 8-week study of J.C. Ryle’s Holiness. Written in 1879, this book has stood the test…
Thursday August 30, 2007 Mother Teresa’s Crisis of FaithDr. Mohler writes about Mother Teresa’s recently-revealed crisis of faith and discusses the importance of having faith in Christ, not faith in faithfulness. Does God Author Sin?At the Desiring God blog Dave Mathis is using John Frame’s “Doctrine of God” to answer the question. Interview with Gary…
As you well know if you are a regular reader of this site, I’ve written a book called The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment and that book was the result of spending almost a year studying the topic of spiritual discernment. As I hunted down all the references I could to discernment and as I studied…
Wednesday August 29, 2007 Reading Classics TogetherA reminder to those who will be reading “Holiness” with us that we’ll be discussing the Introduction tomorrow. A Great Reformed Evangelist RetiresRick Phillips brings an interesting perspective to the retirement of D. James Kennedy. OverdressedThe reviewers at “Christianity Today” (who are often pretty tough to please) give five…
Lucado and R.C. and Moore, Oh My! Here is your update on the latest reviews at Discerning Reader. We have uploaded six new reviews for you this week–reviews that come from the pens of four different reviewers and which examine books by some of the Christian world’s most popular authors. It’s a banner week! Leslie…
It’s a match made in heaven (or that’s what Thomas Nelson Publishers must believe). In 3:16: The Numbers of Hope, one of the world’s best-known and best-loved Christian authors takes on the world’s best-known and best-loved Bible verse. Max Lucado has authored over 50 book with sales exceeding an incredible 50 million copies in print.…
Tuesday August 28, 2007 New Tim Keller BookThe Keller boys have information about Tim Keller’s upcoming book. New WorshipMattersBob Kauflin has rolled out a redesign of his blog. From Hope to RealityFrom Hope to Reality is the blog of Carolina Hope Christian Adoption agency. They have some good information about adoption and especially how Adoption…
It strikes me often how life is cyclical; how things I wrestle with and ponder and pray about will come to the forefront of my life and faith a month or a year or two years later. One of the biggest blessings of having a journal (which is often how this site functions for me)…
Monday August 27, 2007 Expelled: The MovieA new movie by Ben Stein will investigate the scientific community’s utter disgust towards Intelligent Design. Husband-Wife Co-PastorsThabiti Anyabwile discusses the problems inherent with husband-wife co-pastor teams. “It’s been a silent revolution. Not many shots have been fired at all really. It has occurred like so many other errors…
I thought it would be nice to have a guest blogger for the first time in a long while. Today I’m going to post a wonderful little article excerpted from one of George Whitefield’s sermons. In this sermon he exposited Luke 8:18 where Jesus said, “Therefore consider carefully how you listen.” These pearls of wisdom…
Every book needs a cover and, as luck would have it, my book now has one. Choosing a cover was far more difficult than I would have imagined. Some readers may have noticed a white cover on the Crossway site. It was there for a short time before being replaced. Though I didn’t mind the…
Are you an approval junkie? Are you a person who depends too heavily, in spirit, conscience or morale, on the approval of others? How would you even know? These are the questions Lou Priolo tackles in his book Pleasing People. This is a book I read weeks ago and, for some reason, decided not to…
Friday August 24, 2007 Mother Teresa’s Crisis of FaithTIME has a fascinating article about Mother Teresa’s crisis of faith. “‘If I ever become a Saint — I will surely be one of ‘darkness.’ I will continually be absent from Heaven — to [light] the light of those in darkness on earth,’ she wrote in 1962.”…
An interview with the editors of the Reformed Expository Commentary series. There have been a few times in the past few months that I’ve mentioned the Reformed Expository Commentary Series. This is a growing series of commentaries written from a distinctly Reformed perspective and targeted at both pastors and laypersons. Having used these commentaries for…
Thursday August 23, 2007 Google Earth Adds Sky“You can now stargaze using Google’s popular desktop mapping application Google Earth. In the latest version of Google Earth, hit the ‘Switch between Sky and Earth’ button on the toolbar to get a map of the night sky from your current location.” How To Share Your Faith at…
Teaming with Bob Kauflin to encourage you to dedicate yourself to reading. Yesterday Bob Kauflin wrote about reading (What – Me Read?) in response to a question sent to him by a reader. This young man asked: One facet of your site that is always of interest is your list of books you are currently…
Wednesday August 22, 2007 Fill Your iPod For Free!Carolyn McCulley reports that “all of the MP3 messages on the Sovereign Grace Store have just been made free to download. You can sort by topic, by event, or by speaker.” Billboard Reviews Brian “Head” WelchBillboard has a respectful, positive review of Brian Welch’s Save Me From…
Reflecting on the sin of envy. It is healthy, I think, to reflect at times upon the evil of my heart. This seems like a terribly negative thing to do, but I believe it is an important discipline of my spiritual life that I seek to discover where evil lurks within my heart. There are…