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  • tuesday

    A La Carte (November 3)

    I know this is a big day in America. Do know that I and many others are praying for your nation today—for her peace, for her people, and, perhaps above all, for her Christians. Today’s Kindle deals include a few titles that are worth a look. (Yesterday on the blog: How To Lead and How…

  • Peanut Butter Armpits and a Lost Generation

    This week the blog is sponsored by Road Trip to Truth, a new youth group curriculum that features Nathan Busenitz, Mike Riccardi, Shai Linne, and others. Use promo code Tim to get 15% off! Go ahead, I dare you: Go to the YouTube machine and search for “peanut butter youth groups.” Or maybe don’t, because…

  • How To Lead and How To Follow

    How To Lead and How To Follow

    Even people who have no use for Jesus affirm the importance of his Golden Rule: “As you wish that others would do to you, do so to them” (Luke 6:31). This is a call for each of us to live thoughtfully, to live selflessly, to live in such a way that we consider not only…

  • monday

    A La Carte (November 2)

    Logos users will want to check out November’s free and cheap books of the month. Because why wouldn’t you? I didn’t find any Kindle deals for books in the Christian market, though if you didn’t stop by on the weekend, you can check those deals. But Amazon did release their general market monthly deals and…

  • Weekend A La Carte (November 1)

    Here’s your regular reminder that my site SquareQuotes is updated weekly with new quote graphics. There are hundreds of them to download! Today’s Kindle deals include a few good picks. (Recently on the blog: What Makes a Really Good Study Bible?) Daylight Savings and Spiritual Disciplines I think Glenna Marshall is onto something here. “I…

  • New and Notable Christians Books from October 2020

    Though we are late enough in the year that we may be past prime book-release season, there are still some good titles coming our way. I sorted through the stacks that arrived at my door in October and settled on some that, for one reason or another, I consider especially noteworthy. To that end, here…

  • Free Stuff Fridays

    Free Stuff Fridays (Ligonier Ministries and Reformation Trust)

    This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by Ligonier Ministries and Reformation Trust, who also sponsored the blog this week. Martin Luther is one of the most significant figures in church history. The movement that started after his posting of the Ninety-Five Theses led to the recovery of the gospel. How did this happen? How…

  • What Makes a Really Good Study Bible?

    Many Christians can attest that of all the resources that have deepened their understanding of God’s Word, few have proven more important than a really good study Bible. A study Bible combines the text of Scripture with notes that help with both interpretation and application. Of course we acknowledge that there is a distinction between…

  • friday

    A La Carte (October 30)

    Happy birthday to my sweet Abby who turns 18 today! Unfortunately (for me) she’s 500 miles south of here at Boyce College. Still, her brother and friends are taking good care of her, I’m sure. And I’ll see her when term ends in just two weeks! As usual, there are some Kindle deals to look…

  • thursday

    A La Carte (October 29)

    Today’s Kindle deals are from Crossway and include a top biography on Martin Luther as well as one of those books that helped change my life: Whatever Happened to The Gospel of Grace? by James Montgomery Boice. Once again, Logos 9 released this week and includes some solid new features. It’s currently at least 15%…

  • Whats The Point Of Family Devotions

    What’s The Point Of Family Devotions?

    We don’t have little kids around here anymore. In fact, most of the time we now just have one kid around here, and she’s well beyond the little years. We’ve moved past parenting tiny children and into parenting young adults. Toilet training, bike-riding, and grade school drama have given way to navigating graduate programs, assessing…

  • wednesday

    A La Carte (October 28)

    There’s a series of books for children on sale this week at Westminster Books. Today’s Kindle deals include one of the volumes in the God’s Word for You series as well as David Platt’s book on Christians and voting. I noticed that Amazon has board games on sale today for those who are looking to…

  • tuesday

    A La Carte (October 27)

    Logos 9 was released yesterday. If you’re thinking about upgrading, you can get 15% off from this page. Today’s Kindle deals include quite a good number of titles. My latest book Epic: An Around-the-World Journey through Christian History is there today along with the forthcoming Blogging for God’s Glory in a Clickbait World for which…

  • The Influenced Will Be Like the Influencer

    The Influenced Will Be Like the Influencer

    We are easily influenced. It is a feature of humanity (and not a bug) that we learn best by example, by imitation. We are natural imitators and thrive on a combination of formal instruction and observable example. It is little wonder then that we cast about for teachers, for mentors, for people who can influence…

  • monday

    A La Carte (October 26)

    There’s a nice little list of Kindle deals to start the week! 3 Causes for Political Tension between Christians “What are some disagreements that affect your heart’s posture or that hinder fellowship with another person in your church? Maybe you feel scorn. Maybe you are angry that they support a cause that you are convinced…

  • A Mighty and Glorious Revival of Religion

    A Mighty and Glorious Revival of Religion

    It was in the darkest of days that God spoke the most glorious of words: “The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall…

  • Weekend A La Carte (October 24)

    My thanks goes to Thomas Nelson for sponsoring the blog this week with news of their sale on all sorts of great material by John MacArthur. You can find out more here. Yesterday I shared a review of Ligonier’s new A Field Guide on False Teaching. As it happens, it’s on sale now, in single…

  • Free Stuff Fridays

    Free Stuff Fridays (RHB Publications)

    This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by RHB Publications. Everyone who enters will get a free e-book copy of Geoff Thomas’s new evangelistic booklet, You Could Have it All. In addition, five of you – chosen at random* – will each receive a copy of all of the following books. Puritan Reformed Theology by…

  • A Field Guide on False Teaching

    A Field Guide on False Teaching

    Christians have always had to contend with false teaching and competing faiths. But what surely makes the current age unique is the sheer number and sheer diversity we may encounter in any given place. From my context in ultra-multicultural Toronto, it is not unusual to find myself in a setting where there are adherents of…

  • friday

    A La Carte (October 23)

    There a few book deals today for those who are building their Kindle libraries. Safe With Me I don’t really know how to describe or summarize this one, but do recommend you read it! A Wild Harvest “On a bleak January day in 1951 our family disembarked from the boat that had brought us back…