Recently we began reading 1 Samuel in our daily Bible reading plan. Here are a couple of charts that you may find helpful in understanding the book. The first provides an overview to the flow and theme of the book and the second offers a perspective of the relationships of the three kings of the […]
Read More Understanding 1 SamuelWatch this. It’s a little long (just shy of 20 minutes). But it’s worth the investment of that time. HT: Challies.
Read More The Supremacy of ChristChristianAudio gives away a free book each month, and this month the book is Lyle Dorsett’s biography of A. W. Tozer, A Passion for God. This is an excellent biography (though discouraging for what we learn of this well-known pastor as well). I recommend this resource (read my review here). Download A Passion for God from […]
Read More Free Audio book — A. W. Tozer biographyToday only, the e-version of Steve Lawson’s new book on Martin Luther, The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther is being made available by Ligonier for free. I just finished reading this book. It’s excellent. Take advantage of this deal today! The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther.
Read More Free eBook about Martin Luther by Steve Lawson — today only!David Brainerd: As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having: but O how vain and unworthy it is, to live for any lower end! HT: CQOD.
Read More A life worth havingHave you ever been unsure about how to pray for others? Perhaps someone’s name comes to mind and you feel compelled to pray, but you are uncertain what to pray. Or maybe someone has asked you to pray and you know you should even pray at that moment, but no words come to mind. Your […]
Read More Praying for othersWhile working on Sunday’s sermon, I came across this statement by R. C. Sproul on the omnipotence of God, affirming also the sufficiency of God, who does all things His will desires without dependence on any other thing: Aristotle was perplexed by the mysteries of change and motion. As he observed changes taking place around […]
Read More The sufficiency of GodRecently I was asked for my favorite book titles on the topic of worldliness — how can we live in this world without being stained by the world and taking on the characteristics of the world? A few books came immediately to mind, and then I scanned my shelves and found some more helpful […]
Read More Help in the battle against worldlinessJason Helopoulos writes about a common relational circumstance and then offers a hopeful encouragement: Many of us have friends, sons, daughters, wives, and husbands who we struggle to keep hope alive for. They are resistant to the Gospel. Their lives are not only filled with sin, but dominated and controlled by it. Some of the […]
Read More The sinners in our livesWhen you go to bed at 11 p.m., you don’t expect to see three of your best friends five hours later. When you get up to go to the bathroom at 3:20 a.m., you don’t expect to be welcoming total strangers into your home ten minutes later. When you go to the bathroom in the […]
Read More God’s grace and the ERFrom Desiring God: Doctrine Matters is the theological summary of one preacher’s lifetime of investment in a local church. Completing three decades of pastoral ministry at Bethlehem Baptist, John Piper gave a final sermon series on the doctrinal emphases from his years of preaching. These ten emphases, delivered as ten sermons in 2012 and now […]
Read More Doctrine Matters — free ebook by John PiperYesterday we began reading the book of Joshua. Here is a chart I produced a few years ago that may help you understand the theme and flow of the book:
Read More Understanding JoshuaC. S. Lewis makes some helpful observations about greater and lesser things in an essay in God in the Dock. The first few paragraphs I quote lead one to personal application — if I pursue anything more than I delight in and desire God, I am an idolator and will have neither the thing I […]
Read More Greater things, lesser things, and our cultureIn a sermon titled “The Dark Garden,” Tim Keller explains how he came to understand that a god without wrath and Hell is not as loving as the God we find in the Bible. Because Hell exists, our comprehension of the magnitude of God’s love is expanded. Because [a cup of poison] was the method […]
Read More Because Hell exists, God’s love is more comprehensiblePaul’s benediction in Ephesians 3 has been on my mind much this week. It is an expression of Paul’s overflowing gratitude for and dependence on the Triune God who is producing salvation in Paul. It is an exalted view of what the Father, Son, and Spirit are presently at work doing in the believer and […]
Read More A Trinitarian prayer to guide the day
