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Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of interesting titles. Also, some of the ones I linked to yesterday were a little slow in dropping their price, but they should be good now.
If you’re the kind of person who likes to build a complete series, Westminster Books wants to help you get started with a new set of John Owen’s works.
Who Are ‘The Least of These’?
“Matthew 25:31-46 is a beautiful statement of Jesus’s concern for the weak and the vulnerable. It’s also a challenging exhortation for Christians to model the same concern. But what exactly does Jesus mean by ‘the least of these’?” Kevin DeYoung answers in this brief article.
Where is Jordan Peterson on his Spiritual Journey?
It is a fascinating reality that many people are coming to Christ through the influence of Jordan Peterson even though he is not a Christian. This article considers where he is on his spiritual journey. “Peterson feels the pain of those who he so clearly wants to help. I feel his pain. He reminds me so much of Pilgrim in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress—with his burden still on his back. Until he stops reading the bible through his Jungian spectacles, he won’t be able to be ‘unburdened’. He needs to come to the Cross.”
Christus Victor (Amen)
The Gettys have released another new song, this one titled “Christus Victor (Amen).”
Christianity Is not Colonial: An Autobiographical Account
Kamal Weerakoon provides a biographical account to explain how, despite the many charges, Christianity is not colonial.
6 Things to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Going to Church
This may be good to read on a Saturday if you’re considering skipping out on church tomorrow. “When Christians go to church, we do not merely gather in a local setting. In these earthly assemblies, we are lifted by God’s Spirit to His heavenly presence.”
Reexamining Sacramental Life for Baptists and Evangelicals
There is lots to think about here. “A strange theology has overtaken American Christianity, a force that has largely remained oblique and unpopular for the first 1900 years of the faith and yet that has become popularized and spread in the emergence of Fundamentalist Evangelicalism’s ascendency. This strange belief has become the default view among American Evangelicals and effectively denies the role of the sacraments in the healthy life of the church.”
Flashback: Forest Fires & Apple Orchards
“God’s blessings are upon those who come to him with broken hearts—with deep sorrow over their sin and sinfulness. People who come to God in this way will naturally relate to him with a quiet spirit—with what we know as meekness.
An evangelicalism with no boundaries will inevitably result in an evangelicalism with no orthodoxy.
—Matthew Barrett
