Chip Stam, who continues to battle cancer, wrote this week: “Truth be told: My health situation is worsening. The LORD has put it on my heart to prepare for death, whether it be days from now or years from now. I am comfortable and content and confident in the arms of the Savior.” Reflecting on […]
Read More It is Not Death to DieTim Challies: A couple of weeks ago I asked the readers of this site to help me interview John MacArthur. I collected several of the best questions, added in a few of my own, and sent them off. Dr. MacArthur was kind enough not just to answer them, but to answer them very thoroughly. I […]
Read More Tim Challies interviews John MacArthurDoes not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice? (Prov. 8:1) Scripture (particularly in Proverbs) says that the fool is the one who chases the adulterous. The fool is the sluggard who is too lazy even to feed himself. The fool is the one who rejects correction and instruction. The fool believes himself always […]
Read More Wisdom is callingWhen I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? (Ps. 8:3-4) All this God created with His fingers (Ps. 8:3) — He cast these spheres and […]
Read More The work of God’s fingersAfter watching the Super Bowl yesterday — and watching too many empty-headed, violence-encouraging, and sexuality-exalting advertisements, I read this morning about a commercial for “Lookup 3:16” that was not shown last night: Fox Sports refused the ad because, according to a statement, “Fox Broadcasting Company does not accept advertising from religious organizations for the purpose […]
Read More No religious Super Bowl ads allowedFound around the internet in the past week — C. J. Mahaney blogs about “The Pastor and Personal Criticism.” But it’s not just pastors who need to understand the role of criticism in their lives (to produce wisdom and maturity). We can all benefit from the criticism we receive: If we could mature in wisdom […]
Read More Grab bagThe audio for the parenting seminar with Jim Newheiser this weekend has now been posted at Grace Bible Institute. You can access all the audio at the download page: Parenting is More than a Formula When Good Kids Make Bad Choices You Never Stop Being a Parent, Pt. 1 You Never Stop Being a Parent, […]
Read More Parenting Seminar audioMonergism is making J. C. Ryle’s book, Practical Religion (eBook) available as a free download for a short time. Go to Monergism Books.
Read More Free Ryle eBookScripture not only testifies to its own authenticity and reliability, but it also tells us how to read and understand and delight in it. For example, Proverbs 3 offers four directives for the kinds of attitudes we are to cultivate as we read Scripture: Cultivate a desire to remember and know Scripture (vv. 1-4). Read […]
Read More How to read ScriptureI’m still not sure how all this works, but you can now follow my blog on Twitter (where I may have some additional comments as well)… Follow me here: @terryenns
Read More Now on Twitter, tooTitle: Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God Author: John Piper Publisher: Crossway, 2010; 222 pp. $19.99 Recommendation (4-star scale): There is no Christian mind.…As a thinking being, the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion — its morality, its worship; but he rejects the religious view of life, […]
Read More Book Review: ThinkThe audio, video, and notes from each plenary session of the Bethlehem Conference for Pastors, “The Powerful Life of the Praying Pastor” is now available at Desiring God’s Resource Library page. The conference may be designed for pastors, but the theme is prayer, something that would benefit every believer in Christ to do with greater […]
Read More The Powerful Life of the Praying PastorJohn Rogers burned to death at a stake at Smithfield, England on this Monday morning, February 4,1555. Among the onlookers who encouraged him were his own children. What monstrous crime had earned him this cruel death? Read the rest of “John Rogers, 1st of Many Martyrs.” J. C. Ryle’s book, Five English Reformers not only […]
Read More Today in history: the martyrdom of John RogersOver at the Pyromaniacs blog a couple of weeks ago, Dan Phillips first asked wives, Are you sure you want a husband who…?, and then he asked husbands, Are you sure you want a wife who…? The questions centered on the motivation a wife has for her husband to lead and the husband has for […]
Read More Are you sure about what you want your spouse to be?A while ago, someone gave me a challenge: “could you put together a list of top 10 ‘classic’ books you think every Christian should read? And then maybe another list for when we finish that list?” Well first things first — so how about one list for now? And the more I read, the more […]
Read More Ten (or eleven…) favorite books/authors
Words of Grace 