A La Carte (October 8) | Tim Challies
A La Carte: Watch your language / Are we tired of the ordinary? / Her view from the pew / Who am I to question my captain’s orders? / What I want to leave to my family when I die / Why God ma…| Tim Challies
It is good to pray that God would save the ones we love. As Christians, we believe that God loves to save the lost and that it gives him special pleasure to do so in response to the prayers of his people. It is good to pray, but sometimes also difficult, especially when we have prayed the same prayer for years without seeing any apparent results. Rarely do we learn what it means to labor and wrestle in prayer until we have spent ages pleading for the soul of a loved one. I think it is good to...| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Watch your language / Are we tired of the ordinary? / Her view from the pew / Who am I to question my captain’s orders? / What I want to leave to my family when I die / Why God ma…| Tim Challies
On October 7-8, Amazon is hosting Big Deal Days for people who have a Prime membership. They have a huge number of items on sale, covering most product categories. Of course, my interest is in books and Bibles and, thankfully, there are lots of great deals to be had (in printed, not Kindle editions). Most are discounted by 40% or more. You can find the complete list of Christian books here and the overall list of books here. Meanwhile, here are some of my top picks. (For Kindle deals, c...| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Take it on the chin / The Archbishop of Canterbury and the slide into irrelevance / A quick change to improve your sermons / Hymns for the end of life / Cultivating gratitude / Huge book sale / and more.| Tim Challies
How do you know if God is calling you to ministry? In this article, Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. explains how to discern God’s call—through both an inward drawing and the confirming voice of the church. Ministry is a high and holy calling. Could God be calling you? #Sponsored| Tim Challies
Here is the kind of question I sometimes enjoy pondering: How much money is God not really concerned about? I guess I’d better explain what I mean by that. If someone told me a wealthy neighbor was handing out $100 bills to anyone who dropped by, no strings attached, I would immediately go over and knock on his door. In fact, I might even feel this is the right thing to do—if there’s free money to be had, it is good and wise to take advantage of it. But if someone told me that he was ha...| Tim Challies
A La Carte: In the ruins of Rome / Evaluating fictional magic / We still need gentlemen / Your Father’s care / Loving your wife like Christ loves / Meditation / Kindle deals / and more.| Tim Challies
Many of us live in contexts and cultures in which there is fierce competition among churches, each advertising itself as more interesting, more appealing, more entertaining than the others. It some…| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Gospel hospitality / K-Pop Demon Hunters / Does appearance matter? / Teenagers and mental health / A post-literate culture / Even more Kindle deals.| Tim Challies
Free Stuff Fridays: Book Giveaway! #Sponsored| Tim Challies
While making a long journey across the world and enduring the fatigue that comes with it, I thought it would be nice to enjoy some light reading along the way. I mean it as no pun when I say Zero Gravity proved to be just the thing.| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Conrad Mbewe and Voddie Baucham / Piper on the evil that stuns heaven / Paths we did not choose / The hollow comfort of AI / The nuance of healing / Made for approval / and more.| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Tyler Robinson and the violence of porn / MacArthur, Sproul, Kirk, and the Queen / Conspiracy theories / The laughing revival / Let kids read dangerous stories / Why are Christians hung up on sex? / So many Kindle deals.| Tim Challies
I am a long way from retirement—from pulling back from the full-time day-to-day responsibilities of my vocation to instead begin winding down and preparing to step away. I am a long way from retirement, but not so far away that I can neglect planning for it. So, like most of my peers …| Tim Challies
A La Carte: A banner day for Kindle deals / One of my biggest fears / Ways to pray for the lost / Body image and women's discipleship / Birth stories you didn't expect / Human-chimp similarity / and more.| Tim Challies
September is fading into October, but before the month becomes a distant memory, I’d like to tell you about some of the new books that it brought our way. Here are 16 new and notable titles that I hope will be of interest to you. In each case, I’ve included the publisher’s description. Someone to Believe in: Embracing the Savior Who Stays the Same When Everything Else Changes by Courtney Reissig. “Where do you go when all that once stabilized your spiritual life suddenly shifts undern...| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Voddie Baucham / Christians and social media / Call of the Cosmos / The real reason you can't quit porn / Ways of getting justification wrong / Hymn lyrics you've misunderstood / and more.| Tim Challies
Learn how Jesus and the apostles read the Old Testament with the new Connecting Scripture New Testament Bible.| Tim Challies
Do you remember when the New Atheism was at its peak? Do you remember when the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the movement were writing book after book that proclaimed and celebrated the death of Christianity and, indeed, the death of religion?| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Old wisdom for navigating new tech / Is textual criticism cool? / Should I submit to my pastors? / My watch buzzes at 10:02 each morning / Does God change his mind? / Kindle deals / and more.| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Understanding your Hindu neighbor / What’s so intimidating about the Bible? / To a brother stuck in pornography / When seminary comes late / 15 questions for evolutionists / Amazi…| Tim Challies
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It is something you tend to hear a lot when you have endured a time of significant sorrow or suffering: “I know it’s nothing compared to yours, but…” We have a natural tendency to compare—to compar…| Tim Challies
A La Carte: CCM, the Gaines, and Christian subculture / Inner experience as the ultimate sexual authority / A father in challenging times / The case for pew Bibles / Love never fails / The gospel a…| Tim Challies
A few years ago I had an audacious idea: To travel the world and worship with Christians from east to west and north to south. The idea became a proposal and the proposal became a journey. Before I…| Tim Challies
A La Carte: Where art thou Rob Bell? / The case against in vitro fertilization / Praying and weeping for those suffering in Texas / Greet each other with a holy hug / The example of Jimmy Swaggart …| Tim Challies
This page is current as of December 2023.For recommendations on other books and an introduction to this series, visit Best Commentaries on Each Book of the Bible. Before turning to the expert recom…| Tim Challies
One of the most sacred and most important of our tasks in prayer is to intercede on behalf of the lost. We know that every one of our friends, neighbors, and family members needs to hear the good n…| Tim Challies
Are you looking for accessible faith-based resources that can help you serve your church community with confidence? Check out Redeemer University’s online church leadership microcredentials—a…| Tim Challies
Throughout Scripture God commands prayer consistently and pervasively. There’s no denying that it’s essential to Christian living. But does prayer really change things? #Sponsored| Tim Challies
God’s character is the essence of virtue. The heart of virtue is to know the Lord and to become like him, as a child resembles her father. That is the goal, privilege, and destiny of the redeemed. …| Tim Challies
Every now and again I like to share an example of a pastoral prayer from Grace Fellowship Church. I do this because there are few examples of pastoral prayers online and I thought these may serve t…| Tim Challies
This is a curated list of hand-picked Kindle deals that are of special interest to Christian readers. I update this page daily as new deals become available. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qual…| Tim Challies
It is something we have all observed at one time or another and something we have all wondered about. Why is it that those who seem most likely to come to Christ so often reject him? Why is it that…| Tim Challies
