Today’s Kindle deals include a relatively new book by John Piper, a good one by John MacArthur, and a few other picks.
We’ve Lost Our Vocabulary of Wonder About Heaven
Randy Alcorn: “By losing our vocabulary of wonder, I mean that we’ve come to think of Heaven as utterly immaterial and non-physical, a home suited for body-less angels, not real people. Floating in clouds while strumming harps isn’t anybody’s idea of a great time.”
No, You’re Not Welcome To Our New Church Launch!
I love this: “Not beating about the bush, let me give you this blog in a sentence: Thanks SO much for supporting our church plant. But unless you’re local to Gracemount, please, please, please DON’T come to our church launch on Easter Sunday.”
Why We Think Outhouses All Had Crescent Moons in Their Doors
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the classic symbol of an outdoor toilet was probably just made up.
You Might Be a Pharisee If …
“The odds are good that someone, somewhere, at some point has called you a Pharisee. The odds are even better that you’ve slapped that label on someone else.” Here’s what it really does and does not mean.
The Spiders Will Eat Us All
Here are interesting facts about spiders that you probably don’t want to know.
A Friendly Critic on the Best New Resource for Charismatics
I really appreciate Steve Timmis’s review of Practicing the Power by Sam Storms. “Practicing the Power reflects a form of the reductionism it critiques. It sets out to challenge its readers to faith and expectancy, yet it inadvertently encourages them to be satisfied with something less than the New Testament Christianity it claims to espouse. It’s a form of revisionism.”
Did Jesus Ever Experience Doubt?
Denny Burk answers a recent article in the New York Times where the author finds comfort in the fact that Jesus at times experienced doubt.
Flashback: What the Law-Keeper Cries to the Gospel-Lover
It is simple enough to look at other people’s religious observances and stand in judgment. But we would be remiss if we did not look for ourselves here. Even Christians are prone to hedge ourselves around with rules. It’s as if grace is so foreign a concept to us that we simply cannot or will not believe it, and instead flee back to the law.
Men are opposed to God in their sin, and God is opposed to men in His holiness.
—J.I. Packer
