Easter weekend is always a special time in Canada, not least because both Good Friday and Easter are public holidays. Whether you celebrate Jesus, Passover, the Easter Bunny, or nothing at all, you get two days away from the hustle and bustle of normal life. In an era in which governments seem intent on tearing…
Grace and peace to you on this fine Easter Monday (which is a holiday in these parts). There is a very long list of Kindle deals available today. (Yesterday on the blog: Why Should We Try To Add One Stitch To a Finished Garment?) We Should Talk About Disney Trevin Wax tells how Disney’s current…
Easter is a day of acceptance, a day of completion, for on Easter God validated Christ’s atoning sacrifice by raising him from the dead. Yet despite the sufficiency of Christ’s work, we can so easily slip back into an old mindset in which we become convinced there is still something left for us to do.…
There are some more Kindle deals to browse through today, for those who are interested in such things. (Yesterday on the blog: Approaching the Tomb with Joy) Go to Funerals It’s good advice, this. “Let me encourage you to something: consider attending every funeral that occurs in your church’s life. And if you are a…
This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Radius International. They are giving away a conference package that includes: 2 tickets, a Radius pullover, and 2 books. The winner will receive two free tickets to the Radius Missiology Conference being held June 29-30, 2022, at Christ Covenant Church, Matthews, NC. This event will be live…
After a heartbreaking Friday and a sorrowful Saturday, a small group of women awoke early on Sunday. The first rays of the morning sun were just beginning to light the sky when they set out toward the tomb—the tomb where they had left Jesus’ body just two days prior. Each of the gospels tells the…
I trust you are enjoying God’s grace as you prepare to remember Christ’s death and celebrate his resurrection this weekend. Today’s Kindle deals include at least a couple of interesting titles. Meat from the Sky and the Resurrection’s Plausibility “In 1876, a Kentucky grandmother was making lye soap on her front porch. Suddenly, an odd…
Grace and peace to you today, my friends. There are a couple of Kindle books on sale—one by Kevin DeYoung and one by John Stott. (Yesterday on the blog: 40 Random Pieces of Advice for the Christian Life) Was Jesus Punctual? I found this a very helpful cross-cultural look at punctuality. “The English phrase ‘don’t…
Not every idea is worthy of an entire article. Hence, this one contain a long list of brief, random (and unsolicited) pieces of advice for living the Christian life, most of which I’ve gleaned from others over the course of the past 45 years. I hope there is something here that benefits you. When offering…
The Lord bless you and keep you today. There are a couple of Kindle deals today. Potentially of greater interest are this week’s deals at Westminster Books, which include a new book by James Hamilton. More Programs Train Complementarian Women to Teach Bible This is an interesting and positive development. “Preparing a message of biblical…
The God of love and peace be with you on this fine day. Today’s Kindle deals include some excellent titles from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: When The Great Resignation Comes to Church) The Christian Veneer of a Sacred Journey “I’d suggest that one of the greatest risks to the Church in the modern west…
We aren’t colleagues. We aren’t comrades. We aren’t neighbors. We are family. If we are to understand the nature of the relationship between believers, we don’t need to understand work, politics, or geography. We need to understand family. The Bible displays this truth in any number of ways. Together we call God “Father,” and if…
Good morning! Grace and peace to you. (Yesterday on the blog: To Plumb Depths that Have No Bottom) Does Romans 7 Describe a Christian? I’m surprised it took almost 1800 episodes of Ask Pastor John to cover this one. Freedom not to speak Janie Cheaney recounts a well-known tale from Acts, then says “The hysteria…
Today most of us will join with other Christians to worship our God together. As we do so, it is fitting that we consider just how much Christ loves his church. Dustin Benge does that well in this brief excerpt from The Loveliest Place. To grasp Christ’s love for his church is to plumb depths…
May God bless you as you worship and serve him this weekend. Westminster Books has a sale on a new book by Dane Ortlund. There are some new Kindle deals to look at today. (Yesterday on the blog: What Kind of Men Does the Church Need?) Laura to Jake and back again This is a…
Masculinity has become complicated. At least, it has become difficult to be confident about what it means to be a man—to be a man as God has designed men to be. The culture has plenty to say about masculinity that is toxic, but far less to say about masculinity that is good and honoring. We…
The Lord be with you and bless you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of good picks. In Defense of the Gender Binary “The plausibility structure of the gender binary is losing its grip on contemporary consciousness. And, it’s not just in contemporary culture writ large, but we are seeing and experiencing shifts in…
Grace and peace to you today. (Yesterday on the blog: The Joy of Forgetting What You Need To Remember) An Open Letter to the Christian Disheartened by Ongoing Temptation You may appreciate this letter from D.A. Carson and John Woodbridge. What Exactly Does 1 Timothy 2:12 Teach? “Applying 1 Timothy 2:12 in the local church…
If I have my timing right, the last conference I spoke at was the 2020 Bethlehem Conference for Pastors. It was early February and we were just beginning to hear unfamiliar words like “COVID” and “coronavirus.” (A search through my inbox shows that the first mention of it was from an old Adam Ford newsletter…
A number of people who receive this content via email are having trouble clicking links. I am waiting for the newsletter service to fix it. In the meantime, clicking the headline will take you to my site where the links are working as they should! There are a couple of Kindle Deals worth looking at.…