Logos users, be sure to take a look at this month’s free and nearly free books. You can find a free ebook and audiobook here. You’ll also find a back-to-school sale that offers deals on a wide variety of resources. Finally, you can add Bible translations to your collection for just a few dollars each.
Today’s Kindle deals include some of the foremost apologetic and theological works by Van Til, all carefully edited and at an excellent price. You’ll also find Bridges’ must-read The Pursuit of Holiness and all the volumes of IVP’s Bible Dictionaries.
(Yesterday on the blog: A Financial and Spiritual Principle)
A Theology of Money
Brad Littlejohn shares a long and convicting theology of money. It is good for us to think these things through! He begins it this way: “Among the many sayings of Jesus that have echoed down through the ages, few have continued to sound so loudly or uncomfortably in our ears as his warning, ‘You cannot serve both God and Mammon.’ But this does not keep most of us from trying our darnedest to prove him wrong.”
Phone-Free Policy
I appreciate Erin’s short but meaningful poem on her phone-free policy.
Are You Ready for the AI Apocalypse?
“More than any other technology in memory, Generative AI … is making us face up to uncomfortable or even disturbing truths about ourselves, and it’s opening a rare and precious space in which we can ask fundamental and pressing questions about who we are, where we find value, and what the good life looks like. With our reality laid bare, here are three aspects of the current AI apocalypse and how we can lean into them as Christians.”
When Possessions Possess You
Wes Bredenhof explains the spiral of consumption. “If we’re honest, many of us experience it regularly. When it happens, Scripture tells us that there’s more going on than meets the eye. It’s not just about your outward behaviour. You’re not just getting possessions. Possessions are getting you. They’ve got your heart.”
Four Ways to Serve Your Kids’ School This Year
The local school may be the biggest mission field in your entire neighborhood. That being the case, perhaps you should consider ways you might serve it. “One of the simplest ways to love a city is to serve its schools. Education, among other structures, is one of the main components on which a city thrives, creates culture, and builds the well-being of its population. Christians are called to seek the welfare of our city, and we can do no better than to invest our time and energy into a local school.”
Last Words
This is a powerful piece of writing about last words.
Flashback: How to Read and Understand God’s Word
…over four chapters he traces the theme of God’s presence, the theme of covenant, the theme of kingship, and the theme of sacrifice.
He that will play with Satan’s bait will quickly be taken with Satan’s hook.
—Thomas Brooks
