Good morning! The Lord be with you today. Pastors and other church leaders may be interested in an event from Faithlife where they would like to tell you about their new Faithlife Equip product. Today’s Kindle deals include commentaries by Stott and Fee. (Yesterday on the blog: A Prayer About Brokenness) A Royal Funeral with…
Every now and again I like to share an example of a pastoral prayer from Grace Fellowship Church. I do this because there are few examples of pastoral prayers online and I thought these may serve to inspire themes, passages, or ideas as other pastors and elders prepare to lead their churches in prayer. Here…
Good morning! May God bless and keep you as you serve him today and worship him tomorrow. Today’s Kindle deals are largely about the classics. (Yesterday on the blog: Fierce Wolves Are Coming) A Theology of Free Speech I consider Brad Littlejohn one of the most intriguing Christian intellectuals writing today and invariably benefit from…
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Radius International They are giving away a conference package that includes: 2 tickets, a Radius pullover, and 4 books. The winner will receive two free tickets to the Radius Missiology Conference being held June 23-24, 2021, at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, MN. This event will be live…
There are many passages in the Bible we could go to to learn of the calling, the preparation, and the character of the elder. But it has often struck me that one of the most obvious also seems to be one of the most overlooked—Paul’s farewell address to the Ephesian elders in the twentieth chapter…
Good morning! The Lord bless and keep you today. Today’s Kindle deals include quite a number of titles by John Stott. Please Stay Kristin pleads with those who are [unnecessarily] considering leaving their church. “Stay in your Bible preaching church with imperfect people, imperfect pastors and imperfect teachers. Stay and commit to hiding God’s word…
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Kevin DeYoung’s new Men and Women in the Church is on sale for a few days at Westminster Books. There is a substantial list of Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: It’s Far Too Easy To Buy A Tiger)…
A comedian jokes, rightly I’m sure, that it’s far too easy to buy a tiger. Buying a tiger “is not an all day thing,” he says, “it’s like an hour—I’ll be right back with our tiger.” We do hear about people who welcome big cats into their homes and we all have a pretty good…
Grace and peace to you today! If the Church Will Have Glory, It Must Come from God Jared Wilson: “We take God lightly. We treat him flippantly. We are too busy saying ‘whee’ in church when we should be saying ‘woe is me.’ The weightiness, the gravity, the all-encompassing and awe-inspiring glory of the Creator…
Good morning! The Lord be with you today. On sale at Westminster Books this week is a prayer guide from Nancy Guthrie. It’s an “odds and ends” day for Kindle deals. (Yesterday on the blog: Don’t Reclaim Your Life) Post-Pandemic, Will China’s Church Be Changed Forever? It seems it may well be, based on this…
At the end of the most difficult twelve-month period in the history of air travel, Ed Bastian, the CEO of Delta Airlines, is sounding a note of optimism. Celebrating the steady rise in bookings and the gradual return to normal passenger volumes, he recently said, “As the case counts are coming down in meaningful levels…
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a number of books that rarely go on sale. Of Pharaohs and Easter “Last Saturday night, with great fanfare and razzamatazz, under tight security and the gaze of a television audience, twenty-two of Egypt’s Pharaohs were moved to their new…
Among Nick’s things I found a collection of George Herbert’s poetry—a text from one of his Bible college courses (and presumably one taught by the book’s author, Jim Orrick). Herbert was a Puritan-era devotional poet who left behind some wonderful reflections on Christian living and doctrine. I especially appreciated this short one in which he…
Good morning! Grace and peace to you as you serve the Lord this weekend. I’m grateful to Medi-Share for sponsoring the blog this week. Today’s Kindle deals include some classics along with some contemporary works. (Yesterday on the blog: Men and Women in the Church) The Most Valuable Resource in the World Today Chris Martin:…
A book about a Christian perspective on manhood and womanhood faces an immediate challenge: Do we really need another one? There are, after all, any number of titles that deal with the subject and do so with skill. Could there really be a place for one more? Kevin DeYoung believes there is and, for that…
Good morning! The Lord bless and keep you today. As usual, you’ll find a few Kindle deals today—many of them biographies. Good Works What a great piece by Lisa LaGeorge. She addresses it to fathers… Is Wokeness the Greatest Threat to the Gospel? Trevin Wax doesn’t answer this question head-on, but instead offers some principles…
The God of peace be with you today. There are some pretty good picks for you listed in today’s Kindle deals. (Yesterday on the blog: An April Family Update) Why We Should Not Entirely Emulate Our Favorite Preachers “One downside of the surge in podcast growth over the past few years is the decline in…
We have just come off a restful four-day weekend. Good Friday and Easter are both national holidays here in Canada, and we enjoyed the days of downtime and the special worship services. With that behind us, we are in a stretch that leads to the Victoria Day weekend which comes at the end of May…
Good morning! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you today. On sale at Westminster Books this week are books for pastors and their wives. Today’s Kindle deals include a big collection of titles from Eerdmans. What Is “Body Positivity”? Janie Cheaney takes a look at some of the kids’ books meant to…
The Lord be with you and the Lord bless you today. Today’s Kindle deals includes a one-day sale on Scott David Allen’s excellent Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice. (Yesterday on the blog: Why Should We Remember what God Forgets?) A Typesetting God This is just a really neat story. Jesus and John Wayne:…