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…
Today’s Kindle deals include a few good options, three of them excellent choices by John Stott. Halladay Was Everybody’s Hero Here is one for the baseball fans. Roy Halladay was one of my all-time favorite players (and my son’s) and it was truly sad to hear of his death. (This is also a great tribute.)…
Is there any sin we commit more but admit less than the sin of idolatry? As people who have knowingly and willingly deserted the one true God, we turn our hearts this way and that to find the satisfaction we are meant to find in him alone. We try first one thing and then the…
Today’s Kindle deals include just a few odds and ends. Something is Wrong on the Internet This is an odd but still important read for parents of young children. Despite the warnings of explicit content, it points more to what is weird and bizarre than perverse. You Can’t Reform What You Won’t Touch Barry York…
Perhaps the most difficult thing to accept about marriage is that marriage will end–that it is, in the words of John Piper, merely momentary. I get 20 or 30 or maybe 60 years with Aileen as my wife, then the rest of eternity without. Honestly, I struggle to see how this can be a good…
Today’s Kindle deals include quite a number of books (again) that are worth a quick look. Tragedy in Texas: Christian Testimony in the Face of Evil Al Mohler responds to the tragedy: “From a Christian worldview, we have to understand that the facts are important. It is not wrong to want to know what the…
We don’t tend to think of the 16th century as a time when people had to sort out female identity issues. But Roman Catholicism had very strong ideas about women and what they should be doing. For example, lactating nuns and celibate wives were both considered holy. That’s a problem! And because Roman Catholic tradition…
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…
Today’s Kindle deals include some general reading from Crossway and a solid series of commentaries from Zondervan. Child-like Maturity and Childish Adulthood “What does it mean to have a child-like faith? And how in the midst of their stormy youth are we adults to guide little ones away from childishness and toward the child-like maturity…
Every now and again I like to share an order of worship from Grace Fellowship Church. This service’s cast of characters included Paul (our lead pastor) as the preacher and service leader, Josh as the lead worshipper, and Murray as the elder who led the pastoral prayer. Our band consisted of guitar, piano, and drums…
I am down South near Atlanta finishing up a marriage retreat. Lord willing I’ll be back home this evening. If you’re in the international terminal at ATL this afternoon, let me know and we’ll grab a coffee. There are just a few Kindle deals today but they are on good books that rarely go on…
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Zondervan. Today, Zondervan is offering you a chance to win a copy of Michael Allen’s new book in the New Studies in Dogmatics series, Sanctification. New Studies in Dogmatics New Studies in Dogmatics seeks to retrieve the riches of Christian doctrine for the sake of contemporary theological…
I acknowledge this is a bit of a weird question, but bear with me for just a minute: Has there ever been a better time to be disabled? I don’t mean to be smart, and I don’t mean to be cute. What I mean to say is that I am not aware of any society…
Today’s Kindle deals include a great price on a new book by Scott Sauls. Praying For More Reformation “As we celebrate the 500th anniversary of Luther’s theses sparking the Reformation, perhaps the most reformed thing we could do would be to give ourselves to prayer. So much of the world still lives in darkness. And…
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…
Today’s Kindle deals include quite a few good books. Also, check this week’s deals from Westminster Books for a good price on a solid new biography. Free G3 I’d love to see you at next year’s G3 Conference in Atlanta. Maybe some free tickets (buy one get one free, that is) will help. How To…
Today’s Kindle deals include a rather miscellaneous collection of books. The free book of the month from Logos is actually an entire course. What is Sola Scriptura Protecting Us Against? “At the heart of Sola Scriptura, is the recognition that fallen humans have a problem with authority. Indeed, fallen humans are always looking to replace…