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A La Carte (8/27) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
Here are a few Kindle deals. First, two great ones from Baker: Scripture Alone by James White ($3.99); What Is Reformed Theology? by R.C. Sproul ($3.99). Also, did you know all 11 of R.C. Sproul’s “Cr...
Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 Thessalonians 27 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
Series Introduction: I live in a small house. I work in a small office in a small church. For those reasons and others I will never have a huge library. When I add a book I almost always remove a book...
Dumb, Directionless, Defenseless 26 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
Why sheep? Why not cheetahs or wolves or ligers or another animal with a bit of flair, a bit of class? But the Bible tells us often that we are sheep. We are sheep and God is a shepherd. That sheep/sh...
A La Carte (8/26) 26 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
The big news in Kindle deals today is that we’ve got 10 Cruciform Press titles marked down to $0.99 each. Here they are: Torn to Heal by Mike Leake; Modest by Tim Challies & R.W. Glenn; Friends and Lo...
The Puritans: Richard Baxter 25 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Richard Baxter was born in Rowton, England in 1615, the only son of Beatrice and Richard Baxter, Sr. His father was converted when Baxter was about 10 years old, which he says God used to prepare his ...
Weekend A La Carte (8/24) 24 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
Amazon is having a big Kindle sale today on some of their bestsellers. Among the highlights is Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas ($1.99); there is also a bunch of Karen Kingsbury if you like Christian fictio...
Free Stuff Fridays 23 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by my friends at CBD Reformed. As they always do, they are offering a prize that includes some great books. There will be five winners this week, and each o...
The Daddy Guilt 23 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
I have often heard my mother say that women have a near-infinite capacity for guilt and that husbands and children intuitively know this and are adept at exploiting it. Not surprisingly, a common them...
A La Carte (8/23) 23 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Here are a handful of Kindle deals for you: Tim Kerr’s prayer guide Take Words With You is free; Walking from East to West by Ravi Zacharias is $1.99; finally, How To Read the Bible For All Its Worth ...
Remembering the Christian Bookstore 22 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
Bookstores have fallen on hard times. Christian bookstores have fallen on especially hard times. Of all the industries utterly savaged by the rise of the Internet, e-commerce and digital distribution,...