I’m grateful to Moody Publishers for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about Platforms to Pillars, a book meant to address the notion of platform. “Sayers takes a deep dive into the influence and allure of digital platforms on individuals and society, and he invites readers to envision a legacy that lives beyond themselves.”
Today’s Kindle deals are headlined by Carl Trueman’s newest book To Change All Worlds which I believe is on sale for the first time.
Yesterday I recommended Kristen Wetherell’s new book What Makes You Beautiful. I noticed that Westminster Books just put it on sale at a hefty discount, so now’s a good time to get a copy.
China Closed Christian Bookstores. Digital Publishing Grew in the Vacuum.
I found this article from CT really encouraging. It tells how Christian publishers in China are publishing and distributing really good books despite government restrictions. (You may need a free account to read the article.)
Every Pinch of Pain Has Purpose
John Piper explains how in God’s world every pinch of pain has purpose. “God sees to it that the troubles we have, whether persecution or some other heaviness of heart, are designed, not by Satan, not by wicked men, but by God for our holiness, for our fruitful righteousness, for our peace, for our strengthened faith, for our greater reliance upon God, and thus for our joy.”
Watch for the Thing After the Thing
Yes, this is wise counsel—to watch for the thing after the thing.
For Everything There Is a Time
Elyse Fitzpatrick: “It seems to me that God loves change. In all His creation there isn’t anything that stays precisely static. In fact, even atoms are subject to variation and seek disorder rather than order. What in all creation doesn’t change? Only God, the one who stands over the creation.”
What Pope Francis Can Teach Us About Preaching
Shortly before he died, Pope Francis told priests to preach for no more than 10 minutes. Geoff Gertzen draws a lesson from this for Protestant preachers.
Showers of Blessing
“Take a moment to reflect on answered prayers from your past or even blessings you never requested, but he gave them to you anyway. Now, think about your present condition. You might be facing manifold heaviness—the Lord who cared for you in the past still loves you today. Are you looking for the blessings, or have you taken your eyes off Jesus and only focused on the waves?”
Flashback: The Problem with Falling in Love
If love is something that just happens to us it is also something that can just un-happen to us. If it is the action of an outside force, that same force can depart or a competing force can displace it. Then we can blame these forces, as if love’s rising is the reason we began to love and its waning is the reason we ceased.
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
—Martin Luther
