This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Cruciform Press. They are giving away four-book packages to five winners. Each winner will receive… The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity, by Michael J. Kruger (a Cruciform Quick booklet)Endorsed by Collin Hansen, Michael Horton, Kevin DeYoung.A cautionary examination of ten dangerously appealing half-truths. Mike Kruger writes, “Not…
Today’s Kindle deals include a few books that rarely go on sale, plus a number of titles by R.C. Sproul. From now until September 8, you can get 30% off one entire order at Logos. Just load up your cart and use the coupon code LABORDAY. (Yesterday on the blog: Lessons In Becoming a Better…
When I talk to writers or talk about writing, I’m inevitably asked questions like these: What books have most influenced your writing? What books do you recommend to become a better writer? My answers have varied through the years, though William Zinnser’s On Writing Well is generally near the top of the list, and I’m…
We were made to exist within time, to age as we progress through the years allotted to us. As we age, we experience tremendous sorrows—the sorrows of weakness, weariness, reaping, mortality, and fear. But we do not experience only sorrows. We experience joys as well. Some of these extend to believer and unbeliever alike, but…
What makes holy people holy? What makes unholy people unholy? To a large degree it is what fills their minds and their hearts. This is why the battle for holiness is first a battle to flood your mind and heart with the right things, the best things, and why it’s equally a battle to avoid…
Praying for Politicians – “Having been a minister for twenty-six years and an editor of a church magazine for some of that time, I can safely say that there is no subject more likely to get you into controversy than the troubled relationship of the gospel to politics, unless you dare to touch the modern-day…
In 1997, Douglas Groothuis (Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary) published The Soul in Cyberspace. It was, as far as I know, the first Christian book that critiqued and contemplated the darker side of computer-mediated communication. Twelve years is a long time when it comes to technology (and digital technology in particular) but I recently…
We arrived in Louisville after two good and uneventful flights, including one that is the shortest I’ve ever been on. Our first hop took us from Toronto to Cincinnati, a flight of about an hour and a half. The flight from Cincy to Louisville clocked in at just sixteen minutes or something like that. No…