By Stephen Nichols, adapted from Welcome to the Story: Reading, Living, and Loving God’s Word ($4.99 this month only). (more…)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Seeing Ourselves in Scripture
Is the Promised Land Pointing to Heaven? Warren Wiersbe Says No.
It’s unfortunate that some of our gifted Christian poets and songwriters have used Canaan, the Promised Land, as a type or picture of heaven because, while turning people’s eyes toward heaven is essential, heaven is not what the Promised Land stands for in the Christian life. [Read more…]
J. I. Packer on Calling: ‘We Glorify God by Doing Honest Work’
By Leland Ryken, excerpted from J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life.
The idea of calling or vocation is important to [J. I.] Packer.
It could hardly be otherwise for a latter-day Puritan, inasmuch as no subject occupied the Puritans more than the idea of vocation. Having written extensively on Puritan attitudes toward work myself, I will take the prerogative of summarizing what they said so voluminously about vocation: (1) God calls people to their tasks in the world; (2) the goals toward which work must be directed are the glory of God and service to humanity; (3) all honest work is a calling as pleasing to God as the work of a minister preaching in the pulpit; and (4) all work offered to God is a form of worship. [Read more…]
Faithlife Ebooks Weekly Deals: August 6–9, 2019
Here are this week’s top deals, brought to you by Faithlife Ebooks. For more deals, visit our sale page or get our Free Book of the Month. Some of these deals are only good for a few days, so act fast to get these books at the sale price! [Read more…]
Faithlife Ebooks Weekly Deals: July 30–Aug 2
Here are this week’s top deals, brought to you by Faithlife Ebooks. For more deals, visit our sale page or get our Free Book of the Month. Some of these deals are only good for a few days, so act fast to get these books at the sale price! [Read more…]
God’s Voice or Mine? 3 Factors for Discerning the Leading of the Spirit.
Do you have a hard time discerning God’s voice from your own? How do you know if a random thought is from the Spirit or your own mind? It’s something a lot of Christians wonder. [Read more…]
You Can’t Hack Your Heart—Excerpt from This Month’s Free Book
With all our life hacks, kitchen hacks, and travel hacks, we often try to hack our spiritual lives, too. But as Richard J. Foster reminds us in Sanctuary of the Soul—free this month on Faithlife Ebooks—we can’t hack, program, or microwave our spiritual and devotional growth. [Read more…]
Don’t Forget to Grab May’s Free Commentary
This month, pick up your free copy of A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles by I. Howard Marshall. [Read more…]
Faithlife Ebooks Weekly Deals: April 9–12, 2019
Here are this week’s top deals, brought to you by Faithlife Ebooks. For more deals, visit our sale page or get our Free Book of the Month. Some of these deals are only good for a few days, so act fast to get these books at the sale price! [Read more…]
What Do We Mean by ‘Going Deeper’?
By Jared Wilson
John Calvin writes, “Christ is, as it were, a fountain, open to us, from which we may draw what otherwise would lie unprofitably hidden in that deep and secret spring.”1 [Read more…]