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  • Why I Pray With an App – Three-Minute Thursdays #11

    Welcome to another edition of 3 Minute Thursdays. I’m Tim Challies and here is my challenge over the next three minutes; to say something useful, hopefully, helpful about a subject that’s of interest to people like you. Today I want to talk about prayer. Specifically, I want to talk about why I pray every day…

  • Why I love being a Christian

    Vlog: Exploring Ontario, and Why I Love Being a Christian

    We’ve just come through this long and deep cold snap. We’ve just gotten over this spell where it’s been -25, -30 degrees, absolutely freezing. It’s finally warmed up a little. And I’ve decided I’ve got to get out of the office. I’m here at one of my favorite spots at Waterdown, Ontario just to explore.…

  • New and Notable Books

    New and Notable Books – Three-Minute Thursdays #10

    Welcome to another edition of 3 Minute Thursdays. Every year I get literally hundreds of books in the mail. That’s one of the perks of being a book reviewer. As they come in, I take a look at them, I put them in a big old stack right down here and then from time to…

  • Devotional Resources for Children

    Devotional Resources for Children

    As Christian parents it is our great desire that our children come to know the Lord. For them to know the Lord, they need to learn how to encounter him in his word and to speak to him in prayer. From a young age we are trying to instill in them this habit of reading…

  • Kids and Cellphones – Three-Minute Thursdays #9

    Welcome to another edition of 3 Minute Thursdays, where, in three minutes or less, I try to say something useful, maybe even helpful, about a subject that’s of interest to people like you and me. Today I want to talk about our kids and their cellphones. Really, I want to talk about when should we…

  • Vlog: Happy New Year

    Happy new year! Here’s a wee little recap of my 2017 and a brief look forward to 2018. I sure enjoyed doing “light blogging” last week (which meant posting only the daily A La Carte articles) and am now eager to get back to the usual regimen.

  • 3 Minute Thursdays

    Bible Reading Programs – Three-Minute Thursdays #8

    A new year is fast approaching and with it a new opportunity to dive into God’s Word. Here are some tips on getting started with a new Bible-reading program. Here’s the link to the program I recommend: Five Day Bible Reading Program. Transcript Welcome to another edition of 3 Minute Thursdays, where, in three minutes…

  • Jerusalem – EPIC Vlog 01

    I recently spent a few days in Jerusalem, looking through museums, churches, and other sites for objects related to the history of the Christian faith. This was, of course, all part of my EPIC church history project which will be continuing all through 2018 (Ireland, I’ll see you in January!). This time around I’ve got…

  • New and Notable Books

    New and Notable Books – Three-Minute Thursdays #7

    If you’re a Christian and you love to read, this is a very, very good time to be alive. We’ve got Christian publishers just pouring out new books all the time. So many of them are excellent. Today, in this edition of Three-Minute Thursdays, I’m going to tell you about just six new and notable…

  • 5 Most Ridiculous Books to Ever Become Christian Bestsellers

    If you were to scan the lists of the best selling Christian books of all time you’d see some truly amazing books there. You’d see some books that have helped us better understand who God is and books that have instructed us. and how we as Christians can live lives of obedience to Him, and…

  • 7 Sure Marks of a False Teacher

    7 Sure Marks of a False Teacher

    Search through the long history of the Christian church and you’ll see that false teachers have been present at every time and in every era. They were in the early church, the medieval church, the Reformation church, the Puritan church, and of course they are in today’s church. They’ve been a plague since the beginning…

  • How To Use Accountability Software Right

    How To Use Accountability Software Right – Three-Minute Thursdays #5

    It really wasn’t that long ago, that it was difficult and it was usually pretty expensive to get hold of pornography. Today it’s difficult and it’s usually pretty expensive to avoid pornography. So what we’ve seen then, is the rise of these programs we call accountability software. In this edition of 3 Minute Thursdays, I…

  • The Making of a Miserable Millennial

    The Makings of a Miserable Millennial

    If the millennial generation has experienced such ease and privilege, why are so many adrift and purposeless? In this video I ponder the making of a miserable millennial. As always, it’s available on YouTube and Facebook or, if you prefer to read about it, there’s a transcript as well. Enjoy! Transcription We hear a lot…

  • New and Notable Books

    New and Notable Books – Three-Minute Thursdays #4

    How many books do I receive in the mail? Pretty much all of them! In this Three-Minute Thursdays I focus on six that may be of interest to you. As always, I provide this video in Facebook and YouTube formats, then provide a transcription for those committed to reading. Transcript Welcome to another edition of…

  • ESV Readers Bible

    Vlog: What’s a Reader’s Bible All About?

    I wonder if you’ve noticed that over the past few years, our Bibles have gotten a little bit cluttered. Open your Bible and may notice it’s full of notes and footnotes and cross-references and other features. Each of these features is great, yet each one can also detract from the reading experience. Not surprisingly, we…

  • Love Languages

    The Problem with Love Languages – Three-Minute Thursdays #3

    If you are a Christian (and maybe even if you’re not) you’ve probably heard of “love languages.” I believe love languages can be both helpful and unhelpful depending how we use them. In this video I try to explain where they are helpful and where perhaps they aren’t. Here it is in Facebook and YouTube…

  • Why My Family Still Does Not Do Sleepovers

    Vlog: Why My Family Still Doesn’t Do Sleepovers

    Many years ago Aileen and I made a decision for our family, little knowing how that decision would end up reverberating around the world. We decided not to have our kids participate in sleepovers. Here’s why, many years later, my family still doesn’t do sleepovers. It’s available in YouTube and Facebook formats and, as always,…

  • Children and Pornography – Three-Minute Thursdays #2

    Today’s pornography plague is reaching around the world and impacting even the youngest children. In this edition of Three-Minute Thursdays I offer three things parents ought to consider about children and pornography. I’ve got it in YouTube and Facebook formats, then a transcript for the dedicated readers. Rush Transcript Welcome to another edition of 3-minute…

  • Hollywood

    Christians, We Need To Talk About Hollywood

    Scandal after scandal has broken over Hollywood and, for perhaps the first time, we are all seeing what goes on behind the lens. And now I think it’s time we, as Christians, had a talk about Tinseltown. You can watch this video in YouTube or Facebook formats or scroll down for the transcript. Rush Transcript…

  • Called to Ministry

    Three-Minute Thursdays #1 – Called to Ministry

    Today I am trying something a little bit different: I’m shortening down the video format to a mere three minutes. After all, who has got time for a whole seven or eight minutes? I’ll try this for a few weeks under the heading of “Three-Minute Thursdays.” The first one deals with the common question of…