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  • friday

    A La Carte (March 26)

    Good morning! The God of love and peace be with you today. There are a couple of Kindle deals on the list for now. I’ll look for more in the morning. There is a pretty clear theme through the different links I bookmarked yesterday and included today. It shouldn’t be hard to spot it… The…

  • thursday

    A La Carte (March 25)

    Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. With all the interest in Jordan Peterson and what seems to be a growing interest in Jesus, I commend Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson, a fascinating book that examines his thought through a Christian lens. Today’s Kindle deals include…

  • Why Do We Add To Our Trouble

    Why Do We Add To Our Trouble?

    The road is narrow. The path is long. The way is rough. Yet God has called each one of us to run the race of the Christian life. Our every step in this great race is taken in the presence of deadly enemies, our every stride opposed by the world, the flesh, and the devil.…

  • wednesday

    A La Carte (March 24)

    Good morning! Grace and peace to you today. This week’s special from Westminster Books is 50% off the excellent new biography of R.C. Sproul, which I reviewed here. There are a couple of Kindle deals to look at today. A Catechism on Brotherly Kindness This is an excellent brief catechism on brotherly kindness. “Q. What…

  • tuesday

    A La Carte (March 23)

    The Lord be with you and the Lord bless you today. The Logos March Matchups voting has come to an end. The excellent Zondervan Exegetical series has triumphed, which means it’s 60% off. You can now get that deal and several others. There are a couple of interesting Kindle deals today. I’ll check again in…

  • The Questions Women Asked and Their Impact Upon the Church

    This week’s blog is sponsored by Reformation Heritage Books and written by Simonetta Carr—who encourages you to keep asking questions. Be sure to take a look at her new book Questions Women Asked. Unending Questions Kids ask a lot of questions. According to a 2013 British study by Littlewoods.com, girls do so more than boys,…

  • How Long Is the Dash

    How Long Is the Dash?

    Nick’s gravestone has finally been installed, and I have come to see it for the very first time. I have been looking forward to this day and dreading this day in equal measure. For months I have had to visit an unmarked grave, a patch of bare earth with no way to identify the name…

  • monday

    A La Carte (March 22)

    Good morning! May the Lord bless you today and in the week to come. My family has completed our 14-day in-home quarantine after returning from our trip to visit Abby. We’re hoping the rules change before she returns from school in May or we’ll have to do it all again! Today’s Kindle deals includes the…

  • Thy Way Is Best

    Thy Way Is Best

    I have mentioned in the past that I have been exploring some of the Christian poetry of the nineteenth century—an era in which poetry was a prime devotional genre for the church. I was recently making my way through Christopher Newman Hall’s Pilgrim Songs in Cloud and Sunshine, and was taken by a number of…

  • Weekend A La Carte (March 20)

    May God bless and keep you as you serve him and join together to worship him this weekend. My sincere gratitude goes to Baker Books for sponsoring the blog this week with news of an important and excellent new book on the Trinity. Today’s Kindle deals include the usual batch of Saturday classics. (Yesterday on…

  • Free Stuff Fridays (Baker Books)

    This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Baker Books. They are giving away three sets of Matthew Barrett’s books, None Greater and Simply Trinity. None Greater by Matthew Barrett Author and theologian, Matthew Barrett, helps readers get to know a God who is much bigger than we ever imagined by explaining his attributes in…

  • RC Sproul

    R.C. Sproul: A Life

    I used to say that no living theologian had impacted my faith more than R.C. Sproul. His books changed me, formed me, strengthened me. His sermons and conference talks never failed to grip my heart and thrill my soul. His teaching series fed my mind and taught me how to live out my faith. In…

  • friday

    A La Carte (March 19)

    The God of love and peace be with you today! There is quite a nice little collection of Kindle deals to explore. The Equality Act and the Rise of the Anti-Theological State This seems like an especially important one from Al Mohler, at least for those of you who live in the US of A.…

  • thursday

    A La Carte (March 18)

    Good morning! Grace and peace be with you today. Today’s Kindle deals, like most other Thursdays, include a selection from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: Children Who Bloom in an Instant) 6 Questions about the Fear of God Michael Reeves: “I want you to rejoice in this strange paradox that the gospel both frees us…

  • Children Who Bloom in an Instant

    Children Who Bloom in an Instant

    Those who explore the vast boreal forests of Canada are rarely far from a bunchberry dogwood, a plant so common that some have suggested it ought to be Canada’s national plant. The cornus canadensis is a little shrub that often carpets the floors of the great fir and spruce forests. A perennial, its shoots rise…

  • wednesday

    A La Carte (March 17)

    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you today! There is a small collection of Kindle deals to look at today. On sale this week at Westminster Books is a good new book on money and finances that addresses a host of common issues and questions. Female Genital Cutting: Understanding A Cultural Practice…

  • tuesday

    A La Carte (March 16)

    Grace and peace to you today! Today’s Kindle deals are highlighted by Al Mohler’s A Gathering Storm. (Yesterday on the blog: Drowning in an Ocean of Encouragement) I’m Playing My Harmonica For You This is a wonderful tribute to one of God’s saints. “I admire the way that she cared for her family. She bloomed…

  • Is Your Doctrine of the Trinity Novel?

    This week the blog is sponsored by Baker Books and is adapted from Matthew Barrett’s new book Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit. “If Christian theology today is sometimes in disarray… one of the major reasons is…its lack of roots.” —John Webster I have always wanted to travel to Lebanon and touch one…

  • Drowning in an Ocean of Encouragement

    Drowning in an Ocean of Encouragement

    There are not many in this world who are at risk of drowning in an ocean of encouragement, of being swept away by a tsunami of cheer, of being pulled under by great waves of comfort. There are not many who receive so much encouragement that they never have reason to feel doubts, never have…

  • monday

    A La Carte (March 15)

    Good morning and happy Monday. Grace to you today. I and my family are halfway through our 14-day in-house quarantine following our trip to the U.S. to see our daughter. It was worth it. There are a few Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: The Penitential Tear) It Was Finished Upon That Cross CityAlight…