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A La Carte (July 7)

Today’s Kindle deals include a handful of deals on Christian books.

Want to get caught up in your church history? Ligonier will send you Robert Godfrey’s massive video series for a donation of any amount.

Spiritual Growth Comes From Community

Solid advice: “My encouragement to young moms, or busy students, or stressed businessmen and women is this: put yourself in a role that will require you to show up at your local church week after week.”

4 Principles for the Exercise of Christian Liberty

Sinclair Ferguson offers instruct in an important area.

How To Spot a Misleading Graph (Video)

We are easily manipulated.

Rutherford Monument Funding

Here’s an appeal to save a monument to Samuel Rutherford before it collapses. Maybe someone out there is interested in making a donation.

What Is the Purpose of Fasting? (Video)

Donald Whitney provides an excellent answer.

Dashing Little Ones Against the Rock

Paul Carter interacts with a difficult verse: “Sooner or later every honest Bible reader finds herself asking some version of that question. These verses are – beyond a shadow of a doubt – among the very hardest verses of the Bible to accept as Christian Scripture.”

Relationships in Heaven

Randy Alcorn: “One of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked about Heaven over the years is about the nature of marriage there. As I share in my book Heaven, there will be one marriage in Heaven, not many. That marriage will be what earthly marriage symbolized and pointed to, the marriage of Christ to His bride. So we will all be married—but to Christ.”

Flashback: Why I Am Not Continuationist

Here I explain why I am not continuationist or, if you prefer, charismatic.

I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray as I walk, when I lie down and when I rise, and the answers are always coming.

—George Muller

  • What Grieves the Heart of God

    What Grieves the Heart of God?

    What pleases God? What delights his heart? And what displeases God? What grieves his heart? If asked, I think most of us would assume that if we ever grieve the heart of God it will be through denying the gospel or committing a grave moral scandal. Or if we do so as a local church,…

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    A La Carte (November 18)

    A La Carte: When God does not need our service / How to forgive and move on / A devotional for depression / Can a speeding ticket change your heart? / Is it I, Lord? / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Motives Matter

    Motives matter, even (or perhaps especially) when it comes to something as very good as studying the Bible. The best motive for reading the Bible is to be transformed by it. For this to happen, we must approach our reading and studying with both confidence and humility, asking God to transform us through his Word.…

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    Weekend A La Carte (November 16)

    A La Carte: The gratitude revolution / Can a church require tithing? / Listening that hurts / Correctable mistakes when preaching and teaching / We won’t do nothing for eternity / and more.

  • Free Stuff Fridays (TGBC)

    This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by The Good Book Company. They are giving away a copy of Alistair Begg’s new advent devotional, Let Earth Receive Her King, to prepare your heart for Christmas, along with a $200 gift card for you to purchase Christmas gifts for everyone on your list.  Here are some…

  • Inventory

    The Spiritual Gift Inventory I Believe In

    In many churches, it is standard practice to have Christians take some kind of a spiritual gift inventory. Through a series of questions that probe an individual’s interests, passions, and successes, these tests claim to help people discover the ways the Holy Spirit has gifted them to better love and serve his people.