I am grateful to Evangelical Press for sponsoring the blog this week. They want you to know about the beautiful new box set of J.C. Ryle’s Expository Thoughts. I just received a copy and can tell you that it’s as nice as it looks in the pictures. And the content, of course, is pure gold.
Today’s Kindle deals include a few interesting titles new and old.
Our friends at Westminster Books are trying something new—giving away one of their all-time favorite books as a means of supporting an important ministry.
(Yesterday on the blog: New and Notable Christian Books for September 2024)
A Concise Theology of Failure
This is a really good article from Samuel James. “But what if you don’t get the life you wanted? In the digital age, you might as well not even exist. Failure is obscurity, and obscurity is death. In the post-religious imagination, without success, there is no meaning to one’s life. You can go on surviving, but each day that is spent contrary to what you actually want to be doing is a waste. If enough of these days accumulate, your very self disappears.”
Guard Your Heart When Suffering
“We do not live in a demilitarized zone. We carry out our daily lives within enemy territory.” This is true even when we endure times of deep suffering.
How Can I Approach a Political Election in the Right Way, and Have Christ-Honoring Conversations with Others?
Randy Alcorn commends this answer to a timely question.
From Bitterness to Forgiveness
Julianne Atkinson tells about some things she wished she knew about forgiveness before being seriously sinned against.
The Joy of Being Home in the Local Church
I enjoyed this celebration of being at home in the local church.
We Need to Talk About “The Jesus Film”
This article expresses a few important concerns not so much about “The Jesus Film” as about the claims that are made about it.
Flashback: The Tale of the Pig and the Sheep
“…if a sheep and a sow fall into a ditch, the sow wallows in it, but the sheep bleats pathetically until she is cleansed by her master. Be the sheep, my friend, and not the pig.”
The beauty of the gospel is that while we were infinitely sinful we were also unfathomably loved.
—Erik Raymond
