A note for my fellow Canadians: It appears that beginning in early April, books from American sources—which includes many of our favorite Christian publishers—will be subject to a 25% tariff. If you are planning to purchase books anyway, you may want to do so before that date. My understanding is that e-books will not be subject to the tariff.
Today’s Kindle deals include a book from Christopher Ash on teaching the Psalms and Katie McCoy’s excellent To Be a Woman.
Peculiar, Yet Not Peculiar Enough
I appreciated reading Daniel Strange’s reflections on ARC 2025. “How do you judge something where you heard things that made you gasp ‘Wow!’ (in a good way) and ‘Wow!’ (in a less good way)? As a conservative evangelical theologian and someone interested in cultural apologetics and evangelism, I wonder how many (if any) cheers we should give ARC and the cultural trend it represents.”
When God Used a Stutterer
This is an interesting tale of God using a person in unexpected ways.
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What Leadership Is and Does
“Leadership is about more than influence—although it certainly isn’t about less. It is also about taking responsibility for the influence that we have. The leader takes responsibility to influence others in the right ways and unto the right ends or goals. Leaders don’t just influence; they take responsibility to ensure that they are influencing rightly.”
Staring Into an Abyss
Bethel McGrew: “This is the abyss that yawns before the mother or the father who has ushered a child through irreversible, body-wrecking procedures. It’s no wonder so many of them angrily turn away, just like so many mothers and fathers who have aborted their unborn children.”
7 Standards for Good Writing
Barnabas Piper shares 7 standards for good writing. “Each standard is open for debate, but combine them all and a sieve of sorts is formed to sift the poor works and let through the quality ones.”
Surrender to Ministry
I have only ever heard the term “surrender to ministry” in the American South, though perhaps it’s used elsewhere. Jason Dees explains what he appreciates about it.
Flashback: When “All Things” Don’t Feel So Good
“All things for good” is a promise God’s people must take by faith and cling to with tenacity in times of great difficulty. We need to believe that God has the ability to work all things for good and to trust that he actually is working all things for good.
Christians aren’t distant spectators with a cold propositional knowledge of God; they are children who know their Father personally and are loved by him extravagantly.
—Sam Luce & Hunter Williams
