Sometimes I find myself on a reading kick in which I follow a common theme through a number of books. Over the past few weeks I have been fascinated with businesses that have the appearance of being legitimate while they are actually over-hyped at best and fraudulent at worst. Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos claimed to have…
Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canadians. I hope you enjoy your day off! Today’s Kindle deals include a list of titles from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: Vultures Are Always the First to Smell Carrion) After Roe: What’s Our Job Now? Here’s George Grant in Tabletalk: “Circumstances change. Laws, courts, and administrations come and…
Wherever there is Christian community there is bound to be scolds and critics. This is true today and this was true in days past. Here’s a great little excerpt from one of De Witt Talmage’s sermons from the late 1800s in which he expresses his concern about such individuals. There are in every community and…
May you know the Lord’s blessings as you serve and worship him this weekend. There are a few new Kindle deals to look at today. (Yesterday on the blog: Should We Abandon “Evangelical?”) Consuming ideologies “J.K. Rowling, one of the most successful authors of all time, posted an interesting Twitter thread on April 20. I’ll…
The word evangelical seems to have fallen out of favor, and perhaps for reasons that are understandable. Where the word once had a distinct Christian meaning, in recent years it has come to be conflated with politics as much as religion, with civil issues as much as spiritual. Many wonder whether the term is worth…
The Lord be with you and bless you today, my friends. (Yesterday on the blog: Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God) Sexual ethics and colonialism for the modern age This article considers the strange contradictions between society’s hatred of an old form of colonialism and its love of a…
I have often said that I don’t know what I think or what I believe until I write about it. Writing is how I reflect, how I meditate, how I chart life’s every journey. In the waning weeks of 2020 my dear son Nick passed away very suddenly and very unexpectedly. And when that sorrow…
There is once again a sale on some new kids’ books at Westminster Books. Today’s Kindle deals include one single solitary book. (Yesterday on the blog: The Dead Seriousness of Careless Words) The Blessing of Rest “Because of the way I am wired I have always viewed rest as weakness and a colossal waste of…
A technician for an airline neglected to check the logs from previous flights and therefore failed to take action on a control problem that had recurred multiple times over the past days. His carelessness was one of the factors that led to the plane crashing on a subsequent flight. An engineer failed to set the…
Good morning! May the Lord be with you and bless you on this fine day. There are some really good Kindle deals today that include A Puritan Theology and Stott’s study of the Beatitudes. Recovering an Erased Gospel “Two hundred years ago, a nobleman on the Greek island of Zakynthos presented a visiting British soldier…
Yesterday we made the long drive from Louisville back to Canada and are once again settled into home. The newlyweds, meanwhile, headed off on what I pray will be a joyful honeymoon. Between getting home and calling it a night I did have time to dig up a few new Kindle deals. Westminster Book is…
This week the blog is sponsored by Acts 29 and is written by Matthew Spandler-Davison. Matthew is the vice president for global outreach for Acts 29 and manages Acts 29’s Church in Hard Places initiative. He is also a church planter and pastor of Redeemer Fellowship Church in Bardstown, Kentucky. Charles Spurgeon, the known Baptist…
Yesterday we celebrated Abby and Nathan’s wedding—the first of a whole new generation for the Challies side of the family (though certainly not the last since Abby is one of 16 children/nieces/nephews). The day was every bit as beautiful as we had hoped. I’ll try to share a few pictures in the near future, but…
It was a late night last night and thus a bit of a slow start today. But we successfully pulled off a wedding and had a great time of it. Congratulations to Nathan and Abby! Today’s Kindle deals include a nice little collection of books on a crucial topic. (Yesterday on the blog: Two Lives…
I’ve got marriage on my mind today as we prepare to gather this evening to celebrate Abby and Nathan’s wedding. One little gift I have given them is a copy of J.R. Miller’s The Wedded Life, a sweet little book he wrote for just such an occasion. This particular copy was given to a couple…
Good morning! Here’s a little collection of links that I thought you might enjoy. There are a few Kindle deals you may want to look at. (Yesterday on the blog: Laying Ambushes — A Family Update on a Special Weekend) How does Reformed theology view the future of Israel compared to dispensationalism? Obviously not everyone…
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Christian Focus. They are giving away five-book sets of Tell God How You Feel: Helping Kids with Hard Emotions and God Hears Your Heart: Helping Kids Pray about Hard Emotions by Christina Fox. As emotional beings, we all have feelings. And in a fallen world, some of…
Like so many Canadian boys of his era, Nick went through a pretty significant Nerf Gun phase when he was 8 or 10 years old. Between several birthdays and Christmases he built up quite an arsenal and, for a time, most of his play would in some way involve these guns. There was one game…
May the Lord be with you and bless you today. I have only found one Kindle deals so far today, but it’s a good one at least. Why Pro-Abortion Activists Desecrate Churches Carl Trueman: “The church service is not simply a convenient place to intimidate pro-life campaigners. To attack a worship service is not simply…
Good morning! Grace and peace to you. (Yesterday on the blog: Keys To Knowing God’s Will for Your Life) Still Chris Thomas: “Stillness can be elusive; a mirage of anticipation that beckons yet fails to deliver. I’ve searched for it, grasped at it, despaired at it, and been surprised by it. Sometimes I’ve forgotten it.…