Kindle deals for Christian readers
- Found: God’s Peace by John MacArthur—$3.82
- Simple Student Ministry by Eric Geiger and Jeff Borton—$2.99
- Own It by Michael and Hayley DiMarco—99¢
- Identity by Eric Geiger—99¢
Today is also $5 Friday at Ligonier, where you’ll find a number of great resources for sale, including:
- Romans by R.C. Sproul (ePub)
- Sola Scriptura: The Protestant Position on the Bible (ePub)
- Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching (hardcover)
- Knowing Scripture teaching series by R.C. Sproul (DVD)
$5 Friday ends at 11:59:59 tonight.
Paganism in today’s culture
This is an excellent talk by Peter Jones:
What Are We After?
Aaron Earls:
Because I’m concerned that too many Christians do not actually long for Christ to work in our present culture, but rather are more concerned with Him bringing back a previous one. By that I mean, the primary desire of many is the idealized culture of the “good ol’ days,” not a biblically faithful modern day.
Who are “the least of these”?
This is a really good article.
Can We Really Be Free from Excessive Fears?
Jon Bloom:
But for most of us, fear often does not function as it was designed. It is not under the governance of our trust in God and therefore wields an excessive, distorting influence over our thinking and behaviors. If fear is misplaced we think and act wrongly. Misplaced fear becomes a tyrant that imposes constrictive limits and leaves us debilitated in some or much of our lives. Under its rule we don’t do what we know we should because we are afraid.
We all desire to be free of this tyrant. But is this possible? Can we really be free from excessive fears? Jesus’s answer is yes.
The Secret Shame of Abortion in the Church
Julie Roys:
According to the Guttmacher Institute, one in every five women who gets an abortion identifies as a born-again, evangelical, charismatic, or fundamentalist Christian. Given that more than a million women abort each year in the US, this means a staggering 200,000 Bible-believing Christians annually. And according to Christian ministries working with this population, a vast majority of them will never reveal their secret.
In interviews with about a dozen post-abortive Christian women, I heard each say they deeply regret their abortions and experienced profound emotional and spiritual trauma as a result. Without a place to confess and seek recovery, women who’ve had abortions remain shackled by fear, grief, and guilt.
