The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms read.amazon.com This Sunday at The Gathering, we kick off our annual Summer preaching series “Summer Under the Psalms”, a multi-year “walk” straight through all 150 Psalms. In light of that, I’d like to recommend a book to you that will help you if you…
Category: Books and Reading
Word Power: The Importance of Reading and Listening With Your Radar Up
Words have power—even individual words. No one knows this better than news outlets and politicians, among others. I recently read a short news report on the voter bills that are being proposed around the country. In this particular story, the word “restrictive” was used 9 times. It helped paint the bills in clearly negative terms….
Book Recommendation: Praying the Bible
In my message on Sunday, I introduced a book that has helped to change the way I pray called Praying The Bible, by Dr. Donald Whitney. If we’re honest, prayer can easily become a recitation of repetitious words about repetitious things. The result is usually boredom and drudgery…and giving up. I found that this quote by…
Jesus Wins: The Good News of the End Times (Book Recommendation)
It is sad but true: in the evangelical church, Eschatology (the study of the culmination of history or “end times”) has become a point of division. With differing (and competing) views used as lines in the sand of whether an individual or leader is “in” or “out,” it seems as though the Enemy has established…
A Daily Devotional Recommendation: New Morning Mercies
Looking for a new devotional for 2019? I can’t recommend this one by Paul David Tripp enough! My wife, Karen, and I have been going through New Morning Mercies together over the last couple of years and found it rich with encouragement, grace, and spiritual insights. Today, we started through it again. Thoroughly Gospel-centered, Paul…
Come Let Us Adore Him – Advent Devo
If you are interested in a good Advent devotional for you or your family, I would recommend this one by Paul David Tripp. Click on the large image below to check it out at Amazon.
One of the Fruits of Being Justified By Faith
A favorite section from R.C. Sproul’s classic, The Holiness of God: When our holy war with God ceases; when we, like Luther, walk through the doors of paradise, when we are justified by faith, the war ends forever. With the cleansing from sin and the declaration of divine forgiveness we enter into an eternal peace…
Join My New Bookshout! Reading Circle
I have started a new reading circle for anyone interested in reading through a book together using Bookshout!. Bookshout! is an innovative social and group reading platform that works on iPhones, iPads, Android devices and web browsers. Starting with our first book today, we’re reading Erasing Hell by Francis Chan. It’s a free ebook you…