Today’s Kindle deals include two books that were just released last year: Making Good Return and My Only Comfort. Both are worth a look, as is The Forgotten Fear. If you didn’t notice yesterday, both the Bible Speaks Today and Tyndale Commentary series are now on sale with some great deals available. You’ll find those deals right here.
If you’re looking for some hardcover commentaries, many volumes in the ZECOT, ZECNT, and Word Biblical Commentary series are on sale. You’ll find the list of the ones that have been most deeply discounted right here.
(Yesterday on the blog: On the Far Side of Obedience)
A Spirituality of Forgiveness
This is good news! “Like retroactively applied accident forgiveness, the forgiveness of your sins has been post-dated to 33 AD. All of your sins, even your future sins, ones you haven’t even thought about committing yet, are all forgiven, and the adjustments are in your account. Your forgiveness has been geotagged to that hill outside of Jerusalem. At that empty garden tomb where Jesus won your victory, your pardon, your life, it is done. Fact: You are forgiven.”
The Mother I Meant to Be
“I’ve had two goals over the last decade or so: lose weight and be a better mother. And every morning in the mirror I see that the weight is still there and I’m still not the mother I meant to become.” Staci writes compassionately for those who feel like failures.
A Brief Theology of Preaching
It does us good to refresh our understanding of what preaching is and why it matters so much. (That said, I’m not entirely convinced by the eight reasons that expository preaching is to be preferred about all other forms—depending, of course, on what those others forms are.)
The World Needs Evangelists With Cheerful Confidence
Trevin Wax: “We’re hesitant to share the gospel because we suffer not from a superiority complex but from a lingering feeling of inferiority. We may still believe the gospel is true, but we quietly wonder if it’s better than what the world offers.”
Resist the Machine
Darryl expresses some alarm about the rise of AI. “At some point, he says, you will probably cede control of your life to this digital assistant. You will let it manage your finances, write your messages, and even order products you didn’t know you needed. You would be happy about all of this because it would save you time and relieve you of work you no longer need to do. But where would you draw the line?”
How Do We Define the Church?
“What does God love most in the world? When He looks down at the snow-topped mountains that He has made, they are breathtaking and beautiful, seemingly reaching up to heaven itself. Likewise, when He looks down on the ocean that He has made, it is sometimes tranquil and sometimes tempestuous, yet always teeming with life, mirroring back to God His creative glory. Even man retains a peculiar privilege, in that man alone is said to bear the image of its Creator with knowledge, righteousness, holiness, and dominion over the other creatures. But of all these things, it is the church that God loves the most in this world.”
Flashback: Great Gifts but Little Faithfulness
I am convinced eternity will show that some of the people who honored God most fully by making the best of their gifts were all the while entirely unnoticed by the likes of you and me.
The more bored you are with God, the more vulnerable you will be when temptation comes.
—Jared Wilson
