Summer is now well underway in Canada. The hot weather began early this year and only now is the calendar catching up. If Canada has an unofficial beginning to summer it is the Victoria Day weekend (which falls around May 24) and if it has a more official beginning it is Canada Day (which is…
Good morning. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you today. I just received copies of Kathleen Neilson’s new four-book series and am immediately a fan. They are on sale this week at Westminster Books. A Brief History of How Friendships Like Yours Can Change the World “Every Christian wants to make…
May the God of love and peace be with you today. Today in Kindle deals you’ll find several popular books by C.S. Lewis. (Yesterday on the blog: When God Seems Deaf To Our Cries) Should We Watch for Signs from God? This is a really good answer from John Piper. “The Bible teaches the doctrine…
Joseph died a young man, his eyes hollow, his body gaunt, his stomach distended. He suffered deeply in those final days before he finally succumbed to the great hunger that had already claimed so many members of his family, so many of the people of his land and the ones surrounding it. As his breathing…
Good morning. May grace and peace be with you today. There are a few nice little Kindle deals to look at today. Comfort Facing Death “Do you ever think about your own death? Poets may come up with flowery words and philosophers may make scholarly statements that ring hollow when there is no connection with…
As we rise today, then gather to worship, it is good to pray that all we do would be to the glory of God. Perhaps a prayer like this, drawn from the works of J.R. Miller, will orient your heart aright as you set out on another Lord’s Day. Jesus, who died for our sins,…
May the Lord of peace grant you his richest blessings this weekend. Today’s Kindle deals include a number of classics and a couple of contemporary works. (Yesterday on the blog: New and Notable Books for June 2021) What the Bible Teaches About Rejection and Embrace Megan Taylor: “We have everyday encounters with rejection in job…
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by WaterBrook & Multnomah. They are offering a BOGO offer for Gospelbound by Collin Hansen and Sarah Zylstra. For every copy of Gospelbound you purchase from any retailer, Multnomah Books will match it and send you an additional free copy. Buy one get one. Buy 10 get 10…
June was perhaps not the biggest month in all of church history when it comes to new book releases. Still, I did receive quite a few, then sorted through them to narrow down a list of the ones I consider most notable. Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians by David Moore.…
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. People looking for Kindle deals will find just a handful of them today. Good Overcomes Evil I was both alarmed and encouraged to read this update by missionaries in Uganda. “The meeting has the feeling of a town without defenses preparing…
In this week’s deal from Westminster Books, they’ll send you a free copy of Piper’s Expository Exultation if you buy a copy of the revised edition of The Supremacy of God in Preaching. Today’s Kindle deals include lots of good material from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: Each Man Before the Mob) The Discipline Of…
There are few better tributes to a Christian than to say “he is a man of good conscience.” Such a man will do only what is consistent with his conscience and will take no action contrary to it. He has carefully informed his conscience according to the Word of God and then carefully heeds it…
Good morning. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you on this fine day. There are a few Kindle deals today that are geared toward younger readers. Controversy and the Sin of Self-Importance “Self-importance is an often-overlooked sin that breeds dissension. It fans the flames of controversy.” Read by Trevin Wax writes…
May the God of love and peace be with you today. I scrounged up a trio of Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: My Anchor Holds) A Life On The Frontier I think you’ll enjoy reading this latest article by Chris Thomas. Was the Trinity Torn Apart at the Cross? Was the Trinity torn…
This week the blog is sponsored by Multnomah Books and is adapted from Collin Hansen and Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra’s new book Gospelbound: Living with Resolute Hope in an Anxious Age. Recently, a man approached me (Collin) at church. He was worried about the times we live in, and I couldn’t blame him. There’s a lot…
At one of the many shipyards dotting Canada’s East Coast, another great oceangoing vessel is very nearly complete, and in just a few weeks it will begin to transport containers across the Atlantic. But before it can embark on its maiden voyage, it must endure a strict regimen of tests. Waters flood the dry dock…
Good morning. May grace and peace be with you on this day and through the week ahead. Today’s Kindle deals are a bit of a hodgepodge, but there are lots of options. (Yesterday on the blog: The Children’s Hour) When I Discovered I Had 3 Fathers This is quite an article by Blair Line. “When…
I have come to love and appreciate the poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I find that wherever I am at in life, he has a poem that speaks to it. And that’s the case today, on Father’s Day, as I think back to the years gone by. His poem “The Children’s Hour” is a celebration…
May the Lord bless and keep you as you enjoy him this weekend. There’s quite a collection of Kindle deals today–for a Saturday, at least. (Yesterday on the blog: It’s All Chocolate) The Good Commission I’ve read many articles on a similar theme, but this one added an interesting element: the notion of “the good…
It is one of the great debates of a privileged age: is dark chocolate superior to milk, or milk to dark? Both have their advocates. The ones who prefer dark chocolate boast of the flavor of cocoa that is undisrupted by excess sugar, that so wonderfully compliments the bitterness of a dark coffee. The ones…