Save on Paul Tripp’s new book at WTS Books
Westminster Books is offering a great deal on Paul Tripp’s latest, Sex and Money. The hardcover is on sale for $9.00 (a 61 percent savings over the cover price) and get the eBook edition from Crossway for $1.99—it’s like getting two editions for the price of one.
WTS also has a number of other terrific Crossway titles:
- Tempted and Tried by Russell Moore—$7.00
- The Hole in Our Holiness by Kevin DeYoung—$9.00
- You Can Change by Tim Chester—$8.00
- Sex, Dating and Relationships by Gerald Hiestand and Jay Thomas—$6.50
- Purity by Lydia Brownback—$5.50
- Sex and the Supremacy of Christ edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor—$8.50
- Worldliness edited by C.J. Mahaney—$6.50
- King Solomon by Philip G. Ryken—$8.50
- Holy Subversion by Trevin Wax—$7.50
- Overcoming Sin and Temptation by John Owen—$11.00
These savings end April 20th so act now.
How NOT to grow spiritually
Dan Darling:
So how do we grow? What are the tools God uses? That question could fill up a year’s worth of blog posts. It certainly has motivated the writing of many books, sermons, etc. But maybe a better question is this: what are some ways to ensure that we DON’T grow spiritually? I’ve got five ways to ensure that you, as a Christian, do NOT grow spiritually.
The Humble Pope
Tim Challies:
What is humility? Humility, in the words of Wayne Mack, “consists in an attitude wherein we recognize our own insignificance and unworthiness before God and attribute to Him the supreme honor, praise, prerogatives, rights, privileges, worship, devotion, authority, submission, and obedience that He alone deserves. It also involves a natural, habitual tendency to think and behave in a manner that appropriately expresses this attitude.” Mack gets straight to the heart of humility when he shows that it is expressed before God before it is expressed before man. Humility before others must grow out of humility before God. If we are fundamentally proud before God, we simply cannot be humble before man.
Like any of us, Pope Francis can only be humble—truly humble—if he first attributes to God “the supreme honor, praise, prerogatives, rights, privileges, worship, devotion, authority, submission, and obedience that He alone deserves.” Yet Roman Catholic doctrine, and especially doctrine related to the papacy, steals from the honor, rights, prerogatives and authority of Jesus Christ and attributes them instead to the Pope. By definition and by Catholic dogma, Francis is no humble Pope.
How Sovereign Is God?
Justin Taylor, citing Charles Spurgeon:
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes—
that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens—
that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their courses.
The creeping of an aphid over the rosebud is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence—
the fall of sere leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.
Get The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther free today from Ligonier
Today marks the day in 1521 when Martin Luther declared:
“Unless I am convinced by Scripture or by clear reasoning that I am in error – for popes and councils have often erred and contradicted themselves – I cannot recant, for I am subject to the Scriptures I have quoted; my conscience is captive to the Word of God. It is unsafe and dangerous to do anything against ones conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. So help me God. Amen.”
To commemorate the day, Ligonier Ministries is offering the eBook edition of Dr. Steven Lawson’s newly released book, The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther, for free:
9 things you should know about women’s body image issues
Joe Carter:
Body image is the mental representation we create of what we think we look like; it may or may not bear a close relation to how others actually see us. Here are nine things you should know about female body image issues.