If you were one of the people who tried to buy a copy of the Sing! Hymnal but found they were out of stock, there’s good news: They are back in stock at Westminster Books.
Today’s Kindle deals include some newer books and some classics (by people like Sproul, Stott, and Schaeffer). Also, some of Paul Tripp’s books from yesterday were slow to have their prices fall, but they now reflect their discounts.
(Yesterday on the blog: Love Is the Interpreter)
Scheduling Hospitality: Making Space for Others in Our Calendars
Amy Santarelli: “Showing hospitality isn’t supposed to be something we only do in certain stages of life, when our schedule lightens up, or when we have the house we think we need for it. It should be part of our lives as believers.”
False Teachers
Michael Jensen looks through the New Testament to see what the biblical writers refer to when they write about false teachers.
Book Brief. Of all the shipwrecks in the world, few have gripped the imaginations of more treasure hunters than San José, a Spanish treasure galleon that went down near Cartagena in the late 1700s. Many historians estimate that its treasure would be worth billions of dollars today. Neptune’s Fortune by Julian Sancton tells the tale of a man who discovered a crucial and long-lost clue and who became convinced he knew exactly where that ship and its treasure had come to rest. I enjoyed reading all about it.
25 Questions a Christian Man Should Ask Himself When Interested in a Christian Woman
Kenneth and Trudi Berding offer a list of 25 questions a Christian man should ask himself when he’s interested in a Christian woman. These complement a prior list they shared for women to ask of men.
What to Say When Challenged to “Love and Accept” Like Jesus
Greg Koukl: “The college student’s challenge was formed as a question: ‘Doesn’t Jesus teach we should love and accept one another?’ The query sounded innocent at first glance, and the answer seemed obvious, at least to most people. If you’re asked this question, though, beware of naively affirming it, for two reasons.”
Stoking the Fire
“If we are truly believers, we have the hot coals of God’s grace in our soul. However, over time if we don’t feed the fire, our love can grow cold. Just like I have to stoke the coals and put fresh wood in my fireplace each morning, so believers stoke the coals of our affections through reading and mediating on God’s word and prayer.”
Finding Satan: The Origins of the Evil One
J. Gary Millar explains what Scripture says about Satan’s origins. “In recent years, interest has resurged in the role of heavenly beings in the Bible, including the ‘backstory’ of God’s adversary (variously known as the Devil, Satan, and the Evil One). Much of what is said and written alludes to a series of key Old Testament texts—but what do those passages actually say?”
Flashback: The Continental Divide of Doctrine
I plead with you for the sake of your spiritual well-being, for the sake of the unity of Christ’s church, and for the sake of giving the best of our attention to the Commission Christ has given us, to expect that the worst of our enemies will come from within. It’s very possible they will be wearing the guise of angels of light … or the guise of experts on discernment.
The gospel turns the duty of doing and experiencing God’s will into a delight.
—Sinclair Ferguson
