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If you’ve never read Meet the Puritans, it’s now available in a second edition. As you might expect, it’s on sale at WTS Books.
Today’s Kindle deals include quite a selection of good books. You’ll find something worth considering, I’m sure!
(Yesterday on the blog: The Benefit of Boring Television)
Goodbye “Big Eva,” Hello “Gig Eva”
Here’s an interesting article by Carl Trueman. “The era of Big Eva seems to have run its course. The conservative Protestant scene in the U.S. is no longer dominated by a few big-name celebrities or by a handful of large conferences. While those large conferences still exist and are often well-attended, they do not grip the popular evangelical imagination as they once did. They seem on the whole to have settled into the role that they should always have held…”
Why Does Pop Culture Feel So ‘Blah’ Right Now?
Brett McCracken considers why pop culture feels so “blah” right now. “For understandable reasons, everyday folks are leery of entertainment’s agenda because so much of it feels like preaching more than entertaining. We’re exhausted by this. And when artists can’t find motivation to create work that’s deeper or wider than politics, cultural stagnation naturally results.”
When You Don’t Want to go to Church
Scott Hurst tells you how you should respond (and why you should respond that way) when you don’t want to go to church.
7 Ways Not To Respond When People Leave Our Churches
Here are seven ways you should not respond when people leave your church, even if you want to.
Digital Hirelings
“A digital hireling is an individual who has set himself up online with self-promoting interest. Like the evil shepherds of Ezekiel’s day, the digital hireling feeds himself, doesn’t truly care about the sick, weak, or injured, doesn’t seek the lost and wandering, and deals harshly with the sheep. The digital hireling opportunistically sets up himself or herself up for self-aggrandizement and financial gain. Most digital hirelings have never spent one day of their lives shepherding the flock of Jesus.”
A Sketch of the Premillennial, Pretribulational Rapture of the Saints
I do not find the premil, pretrib position especially compelling. However, many people I admire do! If you don’t know what it’s all about, this sketch may help you better understand it.
Flashback: The Influenced Will Be Like the Influencer
Jesus calls each of us to follow him. And wrapped up in the call to follow him is the call to follow those who are like him. We imitate Jesus by imitating people who are like Jesus.
The only thing that the church can provide to the world that is truly unique is the gospel.
—Michael Horton
