Today’s Kindle deals include : We Cannot Be Silent by Al Mohler, True Friendship by Vaughan Roberts, Building Blocks in Earth Science by Gary Parker, Transforming Homosexuality by Denny Burk & Heath Lambert, and Beginning at Moses by Michael Barrett. You may also be interested in looking through their monthly general market deals for $3.99 or less.
Logos users will want to pick up this month’s free book: Thabiti Anyabwile’s What Is a Healthy Church Member? You can get a second book in the 9Marks series for $1.99 and enter a draw to win the whole thing.
Christian Audio is giving away a book I’m not familiar with: The Boy Born Dead.
Why Chairs Are Cheap and EpiPens Are Expensive
Joe Carter: “Why are EpiPens so expensive? Because Mylar has a government controlled monopoly that prevents anyone else from making similar products. And yet, ironically, many economically uninformed people are blaming the rapid price increase on the free market.”
Sex Negative
Carl Trueman has some brilliant lines in this article. “Sex is no longer the consummation of an exclusive bond. Now it is just a form of recreation. A bit like golf, but usually cheaper and generally without the plaid pants.”
The Simple Solution to Traffic
Basically it’s your fault and my fault and to fix it we need to turn over the keys…
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
R.C. Sproul explains what we pray for when we say, “Give us this day our daily bread.”
Atheism Is Not Endearing
Atheism just can’t escape its natural consequences. “Atheism is the undisputed ruler of the internet, but it reigns alongside the most twisted forms of pornography and human degradation imaginable. There is a reason that Reddit and 4Chan are bastions of sophomore skepticism on one wing, and factories of sexual nihilism and abuse in the other.”
The Invisible Mother
This is a powerful article on mothers whose children are stillborn. “I am a mother with no living children. As a result, I am often forced to defend my motherhood, especially when others — whether through unthinking neglect or through an unwillingness to identify with me — strip it from me for having empty arms.”
This Day in 1803. 214 years ago today the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was established. This was the first tract society in North America. *
God Has a Name, and He’s Given It To Jesus
Here’s something to chew on: “Jesus Christ now bears the name Yahweh. And rather than detract from God’s glory, confessing Jesus as Yahweh magnifies it.”
The Mammoth Pirates
Here’s a fascinating story and photo essay about a whole new kind of gold rush in Russia’s Arctic north.
Flashback: Writing Tips
Here are writing tips that focus on the tools and context of writing.
The wheels of justice may seem to turn slowly, but they turn surely.
—Randy Alcorn