If you like to keep tabs on books that are coming up, you might like Westminster Book’s Winter 2026 Pre-Order Sale, where they’ve already got a bunch of them marked down.
Today’s Kindle deals include several good books that span a bunch of different subjects. Tim Keller’s Forgive is among them at the lowest price his books ever get.
Business Meetings at the Urinal
Brad Littlejohn explains how digital technologies are changing the way we use public spaces by making private digital experiences more common in physical places. He offers a way that each of us can battle against this phenomenon.
Ambition and Competition: Good or Bad for Christians?
This is a somewhat lengthy look at how ambition and competition are not necessarily bad traits for Christians. “Ambition, redeemed by grace, becomes a powerful servant. Competition, reoriented by love, becomes a communal gift that strengthens all. Together, they drive us not toward self-exaltation, but toward faithfulness, endurance, and joy.”
Why We’re Feeling Lonely (And What We Can Do About It)
According to Forbes, 73% of young people feel alone sometimes or always. But how are Christians also vulnerable to the loneliness epidemic? In this short, punchy book, Shelby Abbott explores gospel solutions for those who are fighting loneliness, and offers the hope of Jesus, who satisfies our craving to be known. Get 30% off Why We’re Feeling Lonely (And What We Can Do About It) using code CHALLIES. (Sponsored)
Courage and the Loneliness Crisis
Alan Noble addresses what seems to be a profound crisis of loneliness among young people. “What can we do to encourage young people to break out of social isolation and inhibition? I believe young people need to cultivate the virtue of courage in order to lean into who they were created to be.”
Learning to Love the Church More Than Me
Dave Harvey: “In our cultural moment, feelings don’t just matter—they define who we are. But there’s a catch. Identity cannot stabilize in the ever-fluctuating market of feelings. No matter how much we insist otherwise, identity is hardwired to be shaped in community. It requires recognition from others to become solid and enduring.”
Better Than Feeling Seen
It is good to feel seen. But “what if there’s something better than feeling seen or feeling heard? What if the fleeting satisfaction of immediate gratification is preventing us from experiencing validation infinitely more substantive and more satisfying?”
A Helpful Motto for When You’re Exhausted and Overwhelmed
Lois offers a little motto that can be helpful to say to yourself and to others in those times when you’re exhausted and overwhelmed.
Flashback: Jesus Wins
I trust we can all agree that while Christ’s return is a matter of first importance, the exact details are far less crucial. What’s clear and most essential is this: Jesus wins.
Christian faith is not a negotiation but a surrender…[And] our greatest motive for surrendering to him cannot be for what he will do in us. It must be to love him for what he did for us.
—Tim Keller
